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...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 how far and how fast Abdullah has gone," comments a senior Western diplomat in Kuala Lumpur. "I think he's really changing the way people look at the country...
...CHARGED. KASITAH GADDAM, 56, Malaysia's Minister of Land and Cooperative Development, and ERIC CHIA ENG HOCK, 71, a prominent Malaysian industrialist; with separate alleged corruption-related offenses; in Kuala Lumpur. Kasitah served as a minister three times under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Chia, a poor fishmonger's son who built an auto-and-heavy-machinery empire, led various Mahathir-championed commercial projects. The two arrests are considered to be signs that Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, who took office in October and is expected to call elections soon, is cracking down on corruption. "My first hundred days were...
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...
...Sendirian Berhad, when it went public early last year. Sources familiar with the deal say Nazimah subsequently sold her shares to the Premier's son. Bush said that Tahir is "the network's chief ... money launderer." In Malaysia, Tahir has a more glittering reputation: his 1998 wedding in Kuala Lumpur was attended by a Who's Who of the city's ?lite...