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January 27, 2012 | By kasmiah@nstp.com.my JOHN Stupka came to Malaysia with only one thought in his mind — volunteer his services under the Peace Corps programme. Once the two-year contract is over, he would go back to his hometown in Ohio, the United States. However, the plan was derailed as 45 years after he [...]

January 11, 2012 | By Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad The Malays have a saying which inter alia means that when you lose your way, go back to the beginning and start again. I believe that everyone has lost their way in handling the current financial crisis. The west in particular needs to rethink some essentials. [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 6, 2012): Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Islam in this country has been tarnished and faith in the religion being eroded as Islam has been used to serve worldly political interests. He said the religion had not been able to ward off the onslaught by politicians who created new [...]

In the second part of the extract from Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s book, A Doctor in the House, the former prime minister writes on the steps taken to fight the currency crisis of 1997 IN September 1997, I was invited to speak at the annual meeting of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund [...]

December 22, 2011 This is an extract from the book A Doctor in the House by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad on the currency crisis of 1997. The book is published by MPH Publications I WAS not familiar with the international monetary or financial system when it faltered and soon after threatened to [...]