
Pak Lah can't manage finance: Dr M
At 83 and still as witty as ever, the nation's elder statesman Dr Mahathir Mohamad continues to throw punches at his successor.















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Deputy police chief Ismail Omar says that speculations and rumours of an impending change in the government were causing instability.







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The DPM, who was made finance minister, is expected to rely on a group of high-level experts, including his brother Nazir, the CIMB banking group CEO.


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Should the king find that the claim of Anwar - that he has got enough MPs to form the government - to be true, then the king should tell PM to tender his resignation.

The home minister today kept clear of controversy by deflecting questions on whether Anwar Ibrahim would be arrested under Internal Security Act.




updated 5.35pm Dealers blame the plunge on steep overseas losses and growing political uncertainty, with players still digesting a move by the PM to pass the finance post to his deputy.



'Flat rate, flat rate, no metre,' one rude taxi driver insists as the tourists try to find a cab to take them to their hotel, less than two kilometres away. They eventually paid RM25.
