The High Court in Kuala Lumpur has fixed Aug 28 for the application to strike out Prime Minister Dr Mahathir’s suit against the Royal Commission of Inquiry on foreign exchange losses in the 1990s.

Despite Mahathir's lawyer Irzan Iswat telling Justice Azizah Nawawi that he has yet to get further instructions from his client on whether to press on with the suit, he agreed with senior federal counsel Mazlifah Ayob on the hearing date...