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...This is a half-past-six country which has no guts." MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, Malaysia's former Prime Minister, warning that the government's decision to scrap a new bridge with Singapore, which was one of his pet projects, shows Malaysia is unwilling to stand up for itself. Singapore had opposed the bridge...
...with a staff of 20 to 30 organizing programs for students, professors and speakers from over 50 countries. Notable past speakers include Nobel laureate and former South Korean President Kim Dae-Jung, former Economist editor Bill Emmott, President of Singapore S. R. Nathan, and former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir bin Mohamad. —Staff writer Joyce Y. Zhang can be reached at jyzhang@fas.harvard.edu...
...GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THE INDONESIAN PRESIDENT. DO YOU FEEL THAT THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE RELATIONSHIP LAGS A BIT BEHIND THE LEADERS'? Yes and no. There were times when the relationship at a government level lagged behind. That's not only with Indonesia. When Mahathir (Mohamad) was the Prime Minister of Malaysia, the people-to-people relationship was a long way ahead of the government relationship. There are 250,000 Malaysians who are alumni of Australian universities...
...almost miraculous achievement, and one in which Lee and his colleagues take justifiable pride. It is, moreover, something that has been much admired, to the point of imitation, around the region. Asian leaders like Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad, Thailand's Thaksin Shinawatra and Indonesia's Suharto may rarely have chosen to admit it, but their "economy first" strategy owes much to the intelligence of a Cambridge-educated lawyer who - he admits - was himself "distraught" when his island state found itself independent and alone. Above all, with their horror of chaos, luan, China's leaders have for three decades come...
...forced out of the Malaysian government in the aftermath of the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Authorities beat him and imprisoned him on trumped-up sodomy and corruption charges, according to Amnesty International documents. The charges were widely seen as the result of a political battle with then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Ibrahim successfully appealed the sodomy charges and was released in 2004 after six years in prison. Last night, Ibrahim said he believes that the aim of Islamic sharia law has a distinctly “Jeffersonian” focus on freedoms of expression and property. But Ibrahim was frustrated...