Kok seeks RM30m from PAS Youth leader over ‘anti-Islam’ claim
Minister of Primary Industries Teresa Kok has demanded an apology and RM30 million in damages from Selangor PAS youth chief over a defamatory article which alleged that she was anti-Islam. Kok, in her letter of demand dated Jan 23, through a legal firm SN Nair & Partners, claimed that Syarhan Humaizi Halim had written and published…
Rubber board chairman warns EPF over discounted land sale
Sankara Nair says a civil action suit can be taken against Najib Razak and a former minister for causing huge losses to the Malaysian Rubber Board. KUALA LUMPUR: The Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) has taken the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) to task after the government retirement fund said it had done nothing wrong in its…
Malaysian Rubber Board short-changed RM850m for dubious land transactions
Primary Industries Minister Teresa Kok and LGM chairman Sankara Nair at a press conference today. Photo by Shahrin Yahya A report has been lodged to the MACC on Nov 27, 2018, “for breach of established LGM procedures” over the five-facility project which was terminated in 2018, said Kok. Photo by Shahrin Yahya For the 2010 land sale,…
Rubber Board under BN sold land with RM800m shortfall, claims minister
Malaysian Rubber Board chairman Sankara N. Nair speaks to reporters during a press conference at the Ministry of Primary Industries January 3, 2019. ― Picture by Miera Zulyana KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 3 ― The previous Barisan Nasional (BN) administration had short-changed and forced the Malaysian Rubber Board (MRB) to sell 2,800 acres of its…