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COULD THIS BE THE SMOKING GUN FOR MALAYSIA’S PM?

Wednesday, July 8th, 2015

Najib Razak said by Wall Street Journal and Sarawak Report to have diverted US$700 million in 1MDB funds into his own accounts. Here is a summary of events. Follow the money. Since the release of the 1976 movie, All The President's Men (about the Watergate break-in and leading to the resignation ...

MALAYSIA ELECTION AROUND THE CORNER?

Saturday, January 14th, 2012

A general election as early as March appears possible with economic storms on the horizon. The ruling Umno coalition appears to have the upper hand but continues to be dogged by corruption. Written by Asia Sentinel correspondent. With the Sodomy II trial of opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim now out of the ...

MALAYSIA TODAY BLOCKED TO COVER UP A SCANDAL

Sunday, September 12th, 2010

Unknown forces attempt to block Raja Petra's Malaysia Today website from posting documents involving a huge scandal. The following report was posted at asiasentinel.com on September 9. At presstime, readers can only access a low-bandwidth version of Malaysia Today. Malaysia Today, the hard-hitting news website edited by Raja Petra Kamarudin, has been ...

$INGAPORE: BUY HIGH, SELL LOW

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Bailing out on Barclay's with massive losses, Temasek forgets to tell $ingapore's citizens about it. (See All Aglow Over US$10bil Swiss Buy below.) $ingapore officials' sense of superiority has taken another beating. A behind-the-curve bunch of sheep with MBAs may now be the truer image. While the sovereign wealth fund of ...

$INGAPORE’S TEMASEK STUMBLES AGAIN

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

The island republic's premier sovereign wealth fund takes another massive writeoff. The following report was posted at www.asiasentinel.com. Although global markets have stabilized at least temporarily over the last couple of weeks, there is no sign of a letup for Temasek, the $ingapore sovereign wealth fund that has already chalked up ...

$INGAPORE’S TEMASEK COURTS DISASTER

Thursday, August 21st, 2008

The bull market tide goes out, leaving the lion city's sovereign wealth firm gasping on the shore. The following report was posted at www.asiasentinel.com. Nearly five months after its March 31 year-end, Singaporeans should be eagerly looking forward to the publication of the report of the guardian of so much of ...