The saddest part of the
sudden chorus
of attacks by Umno leaders against the
Economist
for publishing comments deemed unfavourable to Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is that not a single Umno leader has come up with even one iota of facts to rebut the
Economist
.
When de-facto law minister Rais Yatim
announced
on March 27 in Parliament of yet another foreign country (Japan this time) obstructing the criminal investigations of the Perwaja Steel scandal, many members of Parliament must have chuckled.