Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times by Barry Wain
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Overview: Mahathir Mohamad turned Malaysia into one of the developing worlds most successful economies. He adopted pragmatic economic policies alongside repressive political measures and showed that Islam was compatible with representative government and modernization. He emerged as a Third World champion and Islamic spokesman by standing up to the West. The book, "Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times" by Barry Wain, has bared it all on corruption of more than 22 years under Mahathir rule. It details how the New Economic Policy was abused by Mahathir and his UMNO cronies, causing billions of ringgit of public funds unaccounted for or squandered away. Of the economic progress amidst the mega structures that we can see sprouting up in Malaysia during Mahathir years, there are many more deep holes that would take generations for the nation to heal. The book was at one stage being held up by the authority for scare of the damage it would cause to the ruling UMNO-BN regime. Eventually it managed to reach the bookshelves of Malaysia, by which time it was already a best-seller in Malaysia and Singapore. Barry Wain, a former editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal, is Writer-in-Residence at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. An Australian journalist who has lived in Asia for 37 years, he is author of The Refused, an account of the refugee outflow from Indochina after the Vietnam War.
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Requirements: Sony Reader, Web Browser, 2.4 MB, 3.2 MB
Overview: Mahathir Mohamad turned Malaysia into one of the developing worlds most successful economies. He adopted pragmatic economic policies alongside repressive political measures and showed that Islam was compatible with representative government and modernization. He emerged as a Third World champion and Islamic spokesman by standing up to the West. The book, "Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times" by Barry Wain, has bared it all on corruption of more than 22 years under Mahathir rule. It details how the New Economic Policy was abused by Mahathir and his UMNO cronies, causing billions of ringgit of public funds unaccounted for or squandered away. Of the economic progress amidst the mega structures that we can see sprouting up in Malaysia during Mahathir years, there are many more deep holes that would take generations for the nation to heal. The book was at one stage being held up by the authority for scare of the damage it would cause to the ruling UMNO-BN regime. Eventually it managed to reach the bookshelves of Malaysia, by which time it was already a best-seller in Malaysia and Singapore. Barry Wain, a former editor of the Asian Wall Street Journal, is Writer-in-Residence at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore. An Australian journalist who has lived in Asia for 37 years, he is author of The Refused, an account of the refugee outflow from Indochina after the Vietnam War.
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