Corruption
Mahathir Mohamad, the world’s oldest prime minister at the age of 93, should try to break another world record by making every MP (Member of Parliament) a minister. Malaysia will then have more than 120 ministries, the biggest in the world. Every MP will happily go back home with their own trophy. But that would […]
... written on Jul 03 2018She was Malaysia’s Central Bank (Bank Negara) Governor from 2000 to 2016, and was the first woman in the prestigious position. In 2009, Global Finance named her as one of the world’s best central bank chiefs. On 20 May 2011, Bloomberg chose her as one of top four nominees to head the prestigious International Monetary Fund (IMF). However, […]
... written on Jul 03 2018UMNO (United Malays National Organisation) is seriously in deep shit. In fact, the Malay nationalist party could be de-registered. It may perish and never to be seen again. First, the brilliant acting UMNO president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi went crawling to Prime Minister Mahathir begging for forgiveness for insulting his ancestor, calling him the son of […]
... written on Jun 29 2018PAS (Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party) won about 2-million votes in the 14th general election last month. That means about 2-million Malay-Muslims have more faith in the Islamic party than other Malay-majority parties, including PKR (People’s Justice Party), PPRM (Malaysian United Indigenous Party) and AMANAH (National Trust Party), and even ally UMNO. After all, PAS has […]
... written on Jun 28 2018After Ferdinand Marcos and his spendthrift wife Imelda Marcos were driven into U.S. exile by a 1986 popular revolt, the world was shocked by the amount of luxury items left behind in the Philippines. There were hundreds of pieces of Ferdinand Marcos’s clothing, including the formal native see-through Barong shirts he wore during his 21 […]
... written on Jun 27 2018Mahathir almost didn’t make it. The urbanites – regardless of ethnic-Chinese, ethnic-Malay or ethnic-Indian – understood ex-prime minister Najib Razak’s thievery in 1MDB scandal. There was little doubt that those educated urban people were anxious to vote Najib out. The rural people, especially the village Malay folks, however, didn’t understand one bit about 1MDB at […]
... written on Jun 27 2018Australia is one of foreign countries which many perceive to be squeaky clean, at least its Southeast Asia neighbour thought so. It was quiet a news when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull accused the alternative prime minister, Bill Shorten, of taking “backhanders” when he was a trade union supremo. But when Turnbull himself was dragged into […]
... written on Jun 26 2018Home Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mohamad Fuzi Harun have each struck gold again. As the new government moves forward to a new “Malaysian Malaysia”, it appears the extremely corrupted institution – Royal Malaysia Police – has continued to prove that it’s the most incompetent and ignorant institution in the country. […]
... written on Jun 24 2018Make America Great Again, or simply MAGA, was Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign slogan. It was a great success. Defying all odds, Trump emerged as the 45th President of the United States of America. About 15,000-km away, Najib Razak, whose obsession with American presidents is an open secret, wanted to copy the campaign. It […]
... written on Jun 21 2018On May 15, just five days after the inauguration of Mahathir Mohamad as the world’s oldest prime minister, Daim Zainuddin fired a warning shot. He said it would be foolish for Anwar Ibrahim to be made prime minister immediately upon returning to parliament. The warning shot was aimed at Anwar, and not his boys, as […]
... written on Jun 20 2018
