Dr Mahathir Mohamad

SINGAPORE (Dec 17): It is probably safe to say now that Dr Mahathir Mohamad has not changed his attitude towards Singapore. And, for as long as he is prime minister of Malaysia, bilateral relations between the two countries are likely to be rocky.

SINGAPORE (Sept 15): Malaysia’s Anwar Ibrahim has vowed to focus on improving parliamentary processes if elected in the upcoming by-election in Port Dickson, Negri Sembilan. The 71-year-old says that he will “go down and appeal to the voters” withou

(Aug 29): Perplexed, wounded, indignant or still optimistic. The Chinese developer Country Garden Holdings Co. can put any spin it wants on its Forest City project, a US$100 billion ($136.4 billion) Malaysian township whose fate suddenly has been thrown i

(Aug 19): Chinese investors can help reduce the country’s trade deficit with Malaysia, the Southeast Asian nation’s prime minister said in Beijing on Sunday at an event alongside Alibaba Chairman Jack Ma.

(June 16): Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has rejected an offer by Low Taek Jho to drop his claim to assets frozen by US authorities in return for immunity from prosecution over the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) scandal, the Wall Street Journal (WS

SINGAPORE (June 1): When Dr Mahathir Mohamad took on the office of prime minister of Malaysia for the second time last month, he was widely expected to review the many mega projects that his predecessor Najib Razak had agreed to.

SINGAPORE (May 14): Late on the night of May 8, Chloe Choo began looking at flight tickets. The 35-year-old distribution manager living in Singapore had not planned to return to Malaysia to vote. “I did not have much leave left. There was an emergency a

KUALA LUMPUR (May 11): Malaysia’s newly-elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad plans to appoint a finance ministry adviser who will oversee efforts to recover billions of dollars allegedly stolen from state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), two

(May 11): The election shock may give fresh currency to an idea raised repeatedly by the late Lee Kuan Yew.