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| 2003-07-26 | The MCA and the triads: The Prime Minister steps in
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| 2003-07-24 | The MCA and the triads: Ong Ka Ting's Faustian bargain
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| 2003-07-15 | Do indestructible BN leaders ever retire?
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| 2003-07-15 | Now is the time for BN leaders to make silly remarks
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| 2003-07-13 | The MCA rushes headlong into another storm
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| 2003-07-12 | Much ado about nothing, the BN way
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| 2003-06-26 | The cabinet reshuffle: Teaching buffalos ballroom dancing
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| 2003-06-18 | UMNO GA 2003 - I: UMNO MPs in futile search of a political issue to beat PAS with
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| 2003-06-10 | The MCA president and the blossoming iron tree
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| 2003-05-31 | The MCA Crisis: What you see is what is not
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| 2003-05-26 | The MCA in the doldrums: Dr Ling resigns to win yet again
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| 2003-05-19 | Who owns Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (Utar)?
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| 2003-03-20 | The MCA President's last gasp
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| 2003-03-14 | Political gangsters or how to wash dirty linen in public?
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| 2002-11-30 | The Lady, Like The Queen, Is Not Amused The late Malaysian finance minister, Tun Tan Siew Sin, was
so scrupulous about taxes that he would give customs officers a
list of what he has and insist he paid the taxes. As he would of
those who accompanied him. It was no fun, said a senior Treasury
of the time, travelling with him. But Tan Sri Ting Pek Khiing,
the Can Do No Dam man, travelling with the Prime Minister's party
on an official visit to France, was stopped by French customs
when and undeclared US$800 million in notes was found on him.
He was let off. But the Prime Minister was not pleased. None of
those the US governments accuses for the 11 September 2002
tragedy travelled about except in double-breasted or three-piece
suits. The first rule of a terrorist to blend with the crowd.
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| 2002-05-14 | MCA decides party is more important than its constitution
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| 2002-04-16 | The MCA crisis heads for a denouement
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| 2002-03-20 | A house! A house! A Low-Cost House For A Bribe!
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| 2002-02-14 | Could An Enron happen in Malaysia? The three Mahathir children, for instance, rose to the
heights of Malaysia's corporate world, racked up billions in debt
which they could not repay, but bailed out with official help.
The Vincent Tans, the Ting Pek Khiings, the Eric Chias, the Wan
Azmis, the Amin Shahs, the al-Bukhairys, the Francis Yeohs
survive only as cronies, and depend on government rescue where it
matters while they build empires of debt. And let the Malaysian
government take care of the downside and rescue these failed
Malaysian Enrons. The listed companies are but shells, with
debts far exceeding their net worth. Debts of billions of
ringgit with no means to repay is strewn in their balance sheets.
Enron, after all, is a company with US$66 billion in assets.
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| 2002-02-07 | Who runs Malaysia's finances? -- Corrected I was told -- which I could not yet confirm -- the MP for
Merbok and the UMNO treasurer for Merbok flew recently separately
to Tokyo to negotiate better rates for Petronas for its natural
gas sales. The MP is, of course, Tun Daim. The other man is now
tipped to be finance minister. A man the Prime Minister can
trust absolutely. Who is he? I shall not tell you. Not even if
a thousand screaming and angry Tan Sri Vincent Tans and Tan Sri
Dr Ting Pek Khiings breathe down my neck for billions of ringgit
I do not have. But here is a clue. He was once UMNO youth
treasurer. He is a bin Mahathir, a tribe the Prime Minister
trusts absolutely. He is looked upon as a potential UMNO
treasurer. He is a member of UMNO Merbok division. He is not a
MP. And it is easier for the Prime Minister to convince UMNO
that he is a better choice than in the two men he had earlier in
mind. But a nagging doubt remains: Is this the man we need
right now overseeing the country's finances?
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