| 2006-04-01 | How to be rich and successful, force others to believe that or make them bankrupt That is how Tan Sri Vincent Tan (remember him?) and others like him
got into the press and into the public's mind. Today, no newspaper in
Malaysia would carry reports that he shed tears in public as Dato'
Patrick Lim did. Tan Sri Vincent and Tan Sri Ting Pek Khiing sued me
for not believing their spin meisters. I am prepared to believe them
now they are business men of repute, as they demanded I should then,
but are they now who they were then? Under the next prime minister,
Dato' Patrick would be ignored. But the bankruptcy petitions against
me would succed in the end. There is now an attempt to make me one.
All because a business man and his lawyer are angry and upset they
could not shut me up. They can make me a bankrupt, which they
probably will in due course, but they will remain flawed forever.
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| 2006-01-13 | Defamation and libel laws inhibit political debate in Malaysia Over the years, MPs were kept in the dark, and when they asked
questions, they were threatened with defamation suits. The National
Front got its favourite business men to silence the journalists. Tan
Sri Vincent Tan took me to court, and on a serious of moves which
showed that he gets the judges he wants, won all the way to the
federal court. By then he was out, the I was given a rehearing of the
Federal Court on the grounds that the Chief Justice had gone on a
holiday with the lawyer for Tan Sri Vincent Tan. This was followed by
Tan Sri Ting Pek Khiing of Ekran, who sued me in Miri and I have to
go there to file. Both are friends of the former prime minister, Tun
Mahathir Mohamed. Tan Sri Ting's case did not go any further after he
could not justitify his claim as events caught up with them, is now
out of the corporate scene, a diabetic in Singapore. Tan Sri Vincent
is ignored by the prime minister's friends now, and his flagship,
Berjaya Corporation, owes RM800 million, most to its subsidiary.
Defamation action will succeed, in Malaysia and Singapore, is it is
quickly settled. The National Kidney Foundation in Singapore sued any
one who said it was spending unnecessary money, but according to a
government-appointed firm of accounts, it seems it did. But the
National Kidney Foundation is in trouble, and the newspapers there go
to town, because the PAP wants to bring down a popular
politician.
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| 2003-07-27 | The computer labs fiasco: Missing the woods for the trees What about the RM100 million padi museum in Alor Star, which
the Mahathir crony business man given it, Tan Sri Ting Pek
Khiing, abandoned after the foundations were laid and demanded
RM35 million for it: it is not known if he was paid. It would be
a first if he was not. It is in the nature of cronyistic
behaviour that one should not complete, if possibe, any project
given him. One example will suffice: Tan Sri Vincent Tan, that
international business man crony of impeccable repute, has failed
every major privatisation he has been given, and he was given
more than most, and still clamours for more.
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