Sarawak Chieftain's US Properties

Kuching Thursday, 8th July 2010 The FBI is at home in a Taib office building in Seattle We reprint the second report by the Sarawak Project, an NGO based in the East Malaysian state, which has done an exhaustive study of the property holdings controlled by Abdul Taib Mahmud, who as long-serving chief minister controls an enormous empire...

Malaysia's Najib and the Crony Culture

Kuching Thursday, 8th July 2010 The government backs down on a tycoon's sports betting plan The Malaysian government has portrayed its recent decision not to legalize sports gambling as the action of a responsible administration responding to public opinion and keeping its promise to be more open and accountable. In fact, the episode...