Category: Life

Revelations that a suspected Chinese agent has flushed a cool half million pounds through the office of one Labour MP over recent years have been swiftly followed by accusations and counter-accusations in the UK High Court and also Parliament between rival Conservative Middle East groups. The quarrel has flagged another gaping open door for foreign…

As has been widely reported, the UMNO coup regime has just received a handy $111 million (RM 333 million) from the Malaysian branch of the international accounting giant KPMG as a fine over the role it played in massaging the accounts of their own government’s scandal torn 1MDB. Who was it who revealed and challenged…

A panicked Pahang State Government has just ordered a halt to all logging in the state “until further notice” after vast log jams piled down with flooded waters into towns and desperate endangered creatures from the depleted jungles were seen struggling out into the open roads amidst the chaos. These images have acted like bloody…

Sarawak Report has set up a Go Fund Me campaign to save one of Sarawak’s bravest campaigners, Dennis Along, from being thrown into jail because he cannot pay a RM10,000 fine imposed by the courts for daring to challenge a land grab by the ruling Taib family of his community’s customary lands, seized to build…

Most democratic political parties campaign on agendas for the people, but for UMNO it’s a matter of getting their crooks off the hook and their hooks back into the lion’s share of the public loot. Thus, less than a few months since bulldozing their way back into office, fighting has broken out once more between…

Dignified silence in adversity has turned out not to be Najib’s style. Egged on by his showman lawyer, Shafee Abdullah, the now twice convicted ex-PM has grandstanded throughout his trial, seeking sympathy in the court of public opinion in defiance of the courts of law. To hell with the facts, just politicise the matter as…

Let’s put it this way, it simply is not done. Having been put firmly in his place by the Court of Appeal last week after he tried to further delay their ruling on his client’s case (the client being Najib) Malaysia’s most controversial lawyer took to the public soap box yesterday to try all over…

No one need wonder whether the greedy old tyrants of Sarawak and their fawning hangers-on fear the anger of the young whose futures they have stolen. GPS have made clear they are willing to cost the lives of their own people to avoid letting them vote at the state election. Having called an EMERGENCY on…

One wonders which political consideration made December 8th such a bad day for Najib’s long-delayed Appeal Court ruling into his bold request that a crushing conviction on corruption charges be overturned? Might it upset the delicate budget MOU, strong-armed on the opposition parties by Malaysia’s interventionist King? Or could it interfere with the one-sided campaigning…

The case of the former prime minister, sentenced to 12 years for his outrageous thefts from the nation, is of the highest public interest and yet in Malaysia we see him not only allowed to roam free whilst he appeals his conviction, but to continue to sit in Parliament. Now, more than a year after…

Dear Cabinet, Re-Petition For RM100 Million House Lack of foresight amongst less gifted characters than myself put me under immense pressure in the hours prior to the Malacca election to state my rejection of your agreement to provide me with the RM100 million property which I had previously petitioned for, as is my right. People…