John Berthelsen

FREE ‘If this is true, it’s a TKO for Najib... the Tun has dropped the nuke.’

A champagne-swilling youth leads the PM into a bog of debt and scandal

He must walk a delicate line in a country facing int'l criticism.

COMMENT It's payback time after BN's dismal results in GE13. Mahathir backs moves to punish minorities and reward pro-government voters and companies.

Today is the sixth anniversary of her death. Troubling questions remain, especially who ordered her gruesome murder.

Some of the misdeeds appear to have taken place 'with the knowledge and consent of the former premier'.

Who is the mysterious French operative at centre of massive arms scandal involving the Scorpene submarines?

Pay television service Astro's five-minute time lag allows extra bits to be snipped out to preserve "sensibilities".

What is Terasasi (Hong Kong) Ltd, which received RM144m from French defence company DCN? Is it just a sign on a door?

Investigators believe that some money may have been funnelled to Umno officials through a HK-incorporated company.

'The prosecution has a month to decide. They have to examine the decision and attempt to discover if they have grounds for an appeal.'

Prurient and puritanical, the country gags, goes gaga for naughty tales about the private life of politicians.

The first police conclusions from investigations the last 18 months may likely be obtained in September, says a lawyer.

Fears over the independence of the Hong Kong top newspaper have been sparked by new top staff recruited from Malaysia's Star.

Joseph Breham, a member of a French legal team that filed complaints in a Paris court in connection with the RM3.7 billion submarines scandal, is in KL.

Parisian prosecutors are investigating allegations involving French political figures and the sales of submarines to a number of governments, including Malaysia.

COMMENT Malaysia is damaging its status as an advanced Islamic nation.

The Customs Department has been sitting on a controversial new biography of the former prime minister.

BOOK REVIEW In 1984 or 1985, when I was an Asian Wall Street Journal correspondent in Malaysia, an acquaintance called me and said he had seen a US Army 2-1/2 ton truck...