How about living within your means instead of borrowing money so you can lead a lavish life you can ill afford and which will plunge you into further debt? So do away with the urges to change to a trendy smartphone, that new Prada bag, a Hugo Boss suit. Or perish the thought of it?…
Legal counsel argues RM250 million to NFCorp chairman was a loan, not a grant, rendering it a civil, not criminal matter. KUALA LUMPUR: The Kuala Lumpur High Court today heard an application to strike out two CBT charges against National Feedlot Corporation chairman Mohamad Salleh Ismail for RM9.1 million and RM40 million. The court was…
It appears that there will be more rope to hang Bruno Manser Fund’s Dr Lukas Straumann for the defamatory statements made in recent weeks against Sarawak governor Tun Pehin Sri Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud. Bruno Manser Fund and Sarawak Report have been challenging Taib to sue them, and claiming that a lack of a lawsuit…
News clips from media archives have been retrieved to confirm a contentious circus that transpired Wednesday at the Shariah High Court in Kuala Lumpur before Judge Muhamad Abdul Karim Wahab. It was argued that Sarawak business entrepreneur Datuk Seri Mahmud Abu Bekir Taib had brought an unmarried Australian woman to the wedding of his sibling…
Putrajaya should revise the compulsory Goods and Services Tax (GST) threshold to RM1 million instead of RM500,000 or risk seeing smaller businesses struggle because of the administrative burdens and hefty fines imposed as a result of delayed registration, a DAP lawmaker said. Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong said it was unfair to expect all businesses…
Since an international audit firm has already cleared 1Malaysia Development Berhad’s (1MDB) financial dealings, the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) will not touch the government-link company (GLC). Athi Shankar of Free Malaysia Today has this report – PAC chairman says since an international audit firm has already given 1MDB the thumbs up, PAC has no…
Southeast Asia needs regional aviation regulators to streamline a fragmented safety framework and ensure common standards for aircrew training in the booming industry, AirAsia’s group chief executive officer said. The patchy airline safety record of Indonesia, the largest country in the region, has been in the spotlight after an Indonesia AirAsia Airbus A320 crashed into…
Despite being an investigator for almost two decades, analysing the Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 will be one of the toughest challenges for Nurcahyo Utomo, who knew the pilot personally, according to a report in the New Straits Times Online, quoting viva.co.id. Investigators are often unnerved with having to hear the repeated desperate pleas to God…
Winifred Poh who writes for Free Malaysia Today has taken up the challenge. Some weeks ago, she had written a piece (see here) which Clare Rewcastle of Sarawak Report subsequently took offence (see here). Today at Free Malaysia Today, she writes on the ugly story about the faking of evidence in Datuk Seri Mahmud Abu…
The trial of the suit between National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFCorp) and its chairman Datuk Dr Mohamad Salleh Ismail (Plaintiffs) against Lembah Pantai MP and PKR vice president Nurul Izzah Anwar and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (Defendants) entered its second day today at the High Court at Kuala Lumpur before Judge Datuk Hue Siew Kheng.…
The High Court of Kuala Lumpur today heard how reckless and irresponsible MP Nurul Izzah Anwar had been to lend credence to defamatory remarks delivered by PKR strategy director Rafizi Ramli at a news conference. “Nurul ought to know that as a political figure, her words would carry weight with the members of the public…
Bridget Welsh is a Senior Research Associate at the Center for East Asia Democratic Studies of the National Taiwan University. She is based in Southeast Asia, where she works on Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Indonesia and other countries in the region. She is committed to engagement, fostering mutual understanding and empowerment. Recently she wrote – Between…
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