Grab co-founder Anthony Tan has been hustling these past few years, trying to get close to the political sun across the ...

If repayment is at risk, the bondholders negotiate with the issuer to restructure, typically involving one of three things: stretching maturities, reworking the cashflow, or adjusting the profit rate.

In taking up his stake in SAM, the Malaysian king has effectively exposed himself to the rare-earth business. He also, ...

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And here’s the first The Malaysianist podcast. A few readers have asked for an audio version of some of the stories, so here we are. Like anyone with a journalism background, the maiden episode is a Q ...

Indonesian businessman Riza Chalid is a wanted man. I mapped his Malaysian connection some time back. He is supposedly seeking refuge in Malaysia. Indonesian investigators traced Riza’s whereabouts to ...

I was thinking about what to write today. Usually, being the dan lain-lain1 that I am, the knee-jerk reflex is some pretentious musing on what it means to be Malaysian or that displaced, awkward, ...