World envy turns to enmity

Dean JohnsPublished: Sep 11, 2015 3:13 PM | Updated: Sep 11, 2015 3:21 PM

During the 22 years he spent creating the Umno/BN regime’s culture of larceny, corruption, secrecy and lies, former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad routinely fobbed-off overseas criticisms of him and his regime with the claim that foreigners were just jealous of the alleged fact that Malaysia was ‘the envy of the world.’

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