Newly enriched and waging outsized 'kingmaker' influence, Sarawak wants more autonomy. All well and good, but first show the state is prepared to take care of its marginalised people and deal with decades of ingrained graft.....
The plans for an ‘eco-city’ at Nusantara on the island of Borneo is fraught with environmental risk of global significance. Enthusiasts must hesitate from rushing in the name of progress where scientific experts would fear to tread …..
Money Politics was once a phrase adopted by frustrated Malaysians sickened by graft, backhanders, bribery and all the rest. Now, ever more clearly, a British version of the problem has started to emerge and it often starts with donations of foreign money with a murky past.....
The UK media regulator OFCOM's rules preclude the awarding of broadcast TV licences to any entity that holds a party political or public policy agenda. But it appears that is exactly what has been allowed to happen after the recent takeover of GB News....
The mentor and patron behind Nadhim Zahawi's early political career was disgraced Lord Archer whose record is dogged by controversies. One of these was the Anglia TV share scandal where Zahawi's brother in law and close colleague on Archer's campaigns, Broosk Saib, acted as proxy on what appeared as insider trading but was never prosecuted....
As HMRC boss says there are "no penalties for innocent errors" Sarawak Report learns the reported NCA investigation was closed the day Zawahi became chancellor. Were the millions earned by his Kurdish family company from Western financed reconstruction projects part of that investigation and did money pass to his London property portfolio?.....
Newly enriched and waging outsized 'kingmaker' influence, Sarawak wants more autonomy. All well and good, but first show the state is prepared to take care of its marginalised people and deal with decades of ingrained graft.....
Yet another bank has been fined by the Swiss authorities for failing to flag suspicious transactions relating to the laundering of monies stolen from 1MDB. The revelations from the case have raised new questions about the role of the now notorious FBC Media and a Malaysian director of that company in assisting the fraudulent enterprise...
As thousands of tons of timber have hurtled destructively down river in Kapit over the past few days, provoked by heavy rains, a troubling set of unconvincing denials and changing stories have issued from the Forestry Department. Is there a reluctance to acknowledge uncomfortable truths about logging in the vicinity of the 'totally protected' wildlife sanctuary up river from the site?.........
As the next set piece trial prepares to open on 1MDB in Switzerland new details are already starting to emerge about the role played by the PetroSaudi joint venture directors in the heist and what happened to the money they allegedly stole...
In the wake of the final passing of Sarawak's strongman, Abdul Taib Mahmud, the Swiss NGO have issued their own tribute in the form of a documentary about his deeds. The Rainforest Tribunal was made in answer to the defamation lawsuit issued by Taib's family members who have objected to the NGO's claims about the Governor's unexplained wealth and how they benefitted.....
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