A generation from now it will be Justice Hamid who will be remembered for bravely upholding decency and the judicial establishment who will be remembered for dragging down the reputation of the courts, having proven unable to face even the suggestion of an enquiry into their conduct …..
A howl of wounded pride has swirled round KL this week. The main moaners have by and large no reputation to complain about however, and the ex-AG has not been spilling any secrets ……
The Tommy Thomas memoir has set off a hornet’s nest of separate protests. But, is Apandi really threatening like Najib to place himself in a witness box? Or is this just another attempt to abuse secrecy laws to cover up and protect criminals in power?……..
It seems that the former AG Tommy Thomas’s explosive memoirs have achieved something no-one managed for over ten years – it has lured Najib to testify over the death of his ‘translator’ in the submarine affair, Altantuya Shaariibuu………
As a passports for property scandal erupts in Cyprus we shine a spotlight on the role of ‘global citizenship’ firm Henley & Partners. They deny Jho Low was their client yet admit they received €700,000 in ‘indirect’ commissions from ‘independent 3rd parties’ paid for his receipt of citizenship in Cyprus ……
The former Pakatan Harapan government unravelled because of a series of seemingly inexplicable and catastrophic actions taken by the ex-PM according to Tommy Thomas, who finally offers his insights in a bombshell book…
The strange evasiveness of Malaysia’s PM, Najib Razak, and his cousin the Defence/Transport Minister, Hishamuddin Hussein, became one of the global talking points following the MH370 ‘disappearance’. An explosive new book by one of the international journalists who has followed the story from the start concludes the reason was a massive cover-up …..
Researchers say that poorly planned and executed tree planting schemes (see the spindly trees opposite) are actually doing more harm than good, But allowing areas of forest to naturally regenerate is cheaper and can create up to 40 times more potential for carbon storage than plantations….
Najib and his lawyers are pressing the US courts for information to discredit key witnesses called by the prosecution against him Malaysia in the hope of pinning the blame for 1MDB on them so he can get off himself……
The Malaysian Prime Minister has just acknowledged that the reason for the ‘State of Emergency’ was to prevent Parliament from ‘calling an election’ meaning he has lost his majority and his right to govern. So what has it really got to do with Covid 19? ……
Angry refusal to accept criticism and attacks on human rights advocates and environmentalists as ‘foreign interference’ is not the way to tackle glaring problems in the palm oil business…..
Billionaire trust fund boy, Abu Bekir Taib, is back in action seeking to cash in his freebie tracks of land handed to him by his Dad before anyone can stop him………
Malaysia needs to lose its reputation as one of the world’s most corrupted countries before it finally descends into the status of a failed state. It must begin by returning to the open tendering principle established before the present coup administration snatched office……..
Sadly, long experience has taught Malaysians to assume than any public procurement under the parties who have presently seized power through overturning the election will involve at least 100% mark up to satisfy the greed of the political leadership and its cronies …..
