Word: mohamad
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...logging interests in Borneo?who can be ruthless. There was talk of a bounty on his head and suspiciously heavy movements of police and loggers in the area at the time of his disappearance. Malaysia's politicians were fed up with the troublesome foreigner. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad publicly complained of "white people (who) think we do not know how to administer our country...
...back on incentives for foreign investors and balked at forcing companies to repay their debts. Late last year, Taiwan's President Chen ordered banks to keep lines of credit open to delinquent debtors, a move that has put a straitjacket on liquidity and dampened investment. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad clings to a peg that has hugely overvalued the ringgit. "It's going to take Thailand and Malaysia 10 years," says Tim Condon, chief economist at ING Barings. "So far, most Asian economies aren't willing to let the market have its way with them...
...Professor Henry Higgins made a duchess out of a cockney flower girl. Could he have done the same for a lass from the antipodes? Unlikely, according to renowned cultural relativist Mahathir Mohamad, who is also Prime Minister of Malaysia. In a speech last week on the general theme of The Evils of the West, Mahathir accused the English-speaking world of forcing its language on the East?and ridiculed Australians for speaking that language so abysmally. He worked up his best Oz accent to quote Henry Higgins' famous tutorial: "The rine in Spine fell minely on the pline...
Reading the papers on April 23 must have sent a chill through Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin. His boss and friend of 20 years, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, had given a speech in which he said that "abundantly rich" members of the ruling United Malays National Organization should be barred from holding important posts in the party. Daim, who has been in the party's top echelon for 20 years, just happens to be one of the country's wealthiest individuals. Coming at a time when relations between the two men were already strained, it must have made...
...government has staunchly defended police conduct, although Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi?who is also Home Minister and responsible for supervising the force?has acknowledged that the police have a p.r. problem. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has gone on the offensive. In parliament last week, he warned that his government was willing to break with "so-called international norms" to preserve peace...