Anwar Ibrahim has highlighted an Edge report that raised the question as to why 1MDB has parked RM18bn in the Cayman Islands and not brought it back to Malaysia?
Without a land revaluation surplus of RM2.7bn, 1MDB would have posted a loss of RM1.8bn in 2013, pointed out Anwar, citing the Edge report.
Anwar’s statement follows:
Don’t discriminate. Instead, treat people as you would like to be treated, says Obama, in a message to youth that strikes close to home.
I came across this eye-witness account of the scene around KL during then US president Lyndon Johnson’s visit to Malaysia on 30 October 1966. His visit to Malaysia took place a year after the United States deployed regular combat troops to Vietnam, following its stepped up involvement after the Gulf of Tonkin incident in 1964. Apart from Malaysia, his tour of South-East Asia took him to Vietnam, Thailand, and the Philippines. In next-door Indonesia, in the transition to US-backed Suharto’s New Order regime, a massive anti-communist purge that killed over 500000 people had subsided by March 1966.
Dark clouds of uncertainty have descended on another established community in Penang that is set to be displaced – this time by a 30-acre project in Pepper Estate to be undertaken by a “lifestyle property developer”.
Penang Port was quietly privatised to Sea Port Terminal on 23 Novemeber 2013 – and it was carried out by restricted tender. Another strategic national asset falls into the clutches of Syed Mokhtar Albukhary’s business empire, rather than into the hands of the people of Penang.
Check out Anwar Ibrahim’s eulogy to Karpal Singh ‘Good night, sweet prince’ on the Aliran website.
Thanks to blog readers Wee Chin and Don Anamalai for the video links.
One of Asia’s richest men, Li Ka-Shing, has been selling off his business empire’s China assets as the property bubble in that nation appears to have popped.
“Oleh itu, Tuan Speaker, jangan main-main dengan Perlembagaan,” intoned Karpal Singh presciently, as an MP rose in protest while others shot up in Karpal’s defence as angry rebukes were hurled.