Word: abdullah
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...cronyism that, for the first time in four decades, resulted in the arrest of a cabinet minister, Kasitah Gaddam. Indicted in the same week was top businessman Eric Chia Eng Hock, a favorite of Mahathir who headed one of the then leader's pet projects, the Perwaja Steel Works. Abdullah also indefinitely postponed what would have been the country's biggest infrastructure project, a $3.8 billion replacement for the dilapidated railway system awarded by Mahathir in his final days in office to a consortium led by businessman Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary. "It's really been a shocker...
There was little surprise when Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi last week dissolved Parliament and called a general election. Nor is the outcome of the March 21 vote much of a cliffhanger: most analysts predict that Abdullah's ruling National Front coalition will comfortably retain its two-thirds majority in Parliament. But the man who succeeded long-serving former PM Mahathir Mohamad last November has shown he intends big changes after the election...
With general elections around the corner, it's no surprise that Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is eager to keep attention focused on positive news, such as his government's new anticorruption drive. But Kuala Lumpur is having trouble avoiding persistent questions about Malaysian involvement in the dealings of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist pardoned two weeks ago in Pakistan for providing nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, Libya and Iran...
...Abdullah's government and Washington disagree sharply on the importance of the materials traced to Malaysia: 14 centrifuge components manufactured outside Kuala Lumpur by a subsidiary of publicly listed engineering group Scomi Berhad. In a speech last week, U.S. President George W. Bush called the parts?the last shipment of which was seized en route to Libya last October?"advanced...
...last week as Khan's deputy and chief financial officer. Tahir, who declined comment when contacted by TIME, reportedly acted as the middleman in the centrifuge deal, negotiating the $3.5 million manufacturing contract for the controversial parts with Scomi, which is controlled through a holding company by Prime Minister Abdullah's only son, Kamaluddin Abdullah. But Tahir, currently in Malaysia, appears to be more than a middleman. TIME has learned that Tahir's wife, Malaysian national Nazimah binte Syed Majid, was one of three equal shareholders (including Kamaluddin) in the holding company, Kaspuda Sendirian Berhad, when it went public early...