Fahmi’s appointments that say it won’t be business as usual anymore
KL, Mar 06: IT’S still early in the game but young Minister Fahmi Fadzil seems to be making all the right moves. The appointment of billionaire Mohamad Salim Fateh Din as chairman of the MCMC, for...
View ArticleMahathir wages “holy” war against Anwar
Wed, 29 March:: PM4+7 Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has officially spoken up against Anwar Ibrahim and his unity government. And in the holy month of Ramadan, too, when Muslims around the world make extra...
View ArticleSeveral top executives of public listed firms the target for Malaysia’s...
Friday 31 March: A reliable source told me the other day that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission was aware of activities where outside elements, with the help of unscrupulous enforcement officers...
View ArticleMOU: Their bastardisation by Malaysian cronies and what they mean in China
Wed, 5 April: Some Malaysians don’t think much of memoranda of understanding and that’s quite, er, understandable. For there was a time when corporate Malaysia would sign MOU after MOU with foreign...
View ArticleAnwar’s de-dollarisation: Will it hurt Malaysia?
Dedollarisation is a process of substituting US dollar as the currency used for (i) trading oil and/or other commodities, (ii) buying US dollars for the forex reserves, (iii) bilateral trade...
View ArticleSequerah’s disclosure on his relationship with Jasmime Loo: Did the Judge...
When quizzed why I wasn’t blogging as often as I used to, I’d quip: “Writer’s block, lah.” To be perfectly honest, it’s just an excuse, really. I procrastinate, as people in my profession generally do....
View ArticleDefamation suit over Stadium project: Party Hijau’s Razak Ismail has no cause...
Amirudin is trying to silence (me) with the lawsuits - Razak Ismail, Green Party sec-gen Damansara, 30 July: I don’t quite understand why Razak Ismail, the sacked PKR leader who is now Green Party...
View ArticleWee threat to sue MCMC
Bangsar, 1 Aug: Another potential lawsuit, which may well lead to a counter-suit, involves the beleaguered (although some prefer belligerent) Tourism Malaysia former chairman Wee Choo Keong, 70, whose...
View ArticleThe truth behind Halim Saad’s lawsuit against Dr Mahathir & his “Top Cat”
Bukit Kiara, 11 Aug: Just when I thought I had covered all the lawsuits that are keeping our lawyers and judges busy these days, here comes a big one: Halim Saad vs Nor Mohamed Yakcop aka the Top Cat...
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Chief Tyrant Officer rules EPF and that’s not OK, say workers
Amir HamzahAMIR Hamzah Azizan has helmed nearly a dozen companies, including GLC giant Tenaga Nasional, and in all those years at the top has probably never been called a “tyrant” before. But now the...
View ArticleThe best analysis on the 3:3 outcome of the State Elections goes to …
Damansara, 14 Aug (a public holiday in Selangor): Of all the analyses on the outcome of the six-state elections, I like one dished out by Liyana Marzuki the most. The Scoop has the story: Mereka bukan...
View ArticleAh, Wong Chun Wai!
Wong Chun Wai, the former editor-in-chief of The Star, will be made this afternoon the new chairman of Bernama, the national news agency, sources said. If I’m not mistaken, he’ll the first non-Malay...
View ArticleAnwar at UNGA
This article first appeared in scoop.myHeading: Anwar Ibrahim’s much-awaited UN General Assembly debutSub: Between his address to over 100 world leaders and a rare khutbah at New York’s oldest mosque,...
View ArticleCabinet or Badminton? Zafrul can’t have his cake and eat it too
CONTRARY TO POPULAR BELIEF, CABINET MINISTERS ARE NO SUPERHEROES …KL 8 Nov: The blog called nuclearmanbursa is saying what’s on the minds of many: why is the leadership of BAM, the main body for the...
View ArticleAnwar whacks Israel atrocities, harder yet again, days before meeting with Biden
NATIONAL STATEMENTBY THE HONOURABLE DATO’ SERI ANWAR IBRAHIMPRIME MINISTER OF MALAYSIA AT THE JOINT ARAB ISLAMIC EXTRAORDINARY SUMMITRIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA11 NOVEMBER 2023 Your Royal Highness Prince...
View ArticleOn the fringes of APEC, Anwar continues his condemnation of the brutal,...
DEMOCRACY IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL MEDIA DISRUPTION This is a time of profound disruption across all facets of international relations. As information technology reshapes societies everywhere, we have...
View ArticleAnwar calls for end of Cold War mindset after Jo Biden-Xi Jinping meet
San Francisco, Nov 15: For the last one year PM Anwar Ibrahim has consistently called for the US and China to engage each other and not force others around them, Malaysia included, to ally to one or...
View ArticleIt pays to annoy: How Malaysia got Gaza to be heard in San Francisco
San Francisco, Nov 17: PM Anwar Ibrahim should be delighted with the outcome of the APEC meetings which ended today but he said he was only “quite happy”.“I regretted that we (the leaders) were unable...
View ArticleThe case of the missing trees in Taman Tun Dr Ismail
TTDI, 29 Nov: They are cutting the trees again in Taman Tun Dr Ismail, once one of the greenest housing estates in KL. Well, it probably STILL is but at the rate City Hall has been making some huge,...
View ArticleAnwar ends a year of overseas trips on high note but …
This post is published here after it has appeared in scoop.my earlier today 19 Dec 2023 - Rockybru. Tokyo, 18 Dec: Every time he’s abroad for work, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will make time to. meet...
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