The Sarawak Report
Author: Clare Rewcastle Brown
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9789670311166
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A History of Sarawak Under Its Two White Rajahs, 1839-1908
Money Logging
Author: Lukas Straumann
Publisher:
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783905252682
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Money Logging investigates what Gordon Brown has called "probably the biggest environmental crime of our times"--the massive destruction of the Borneo rainforest by Malaysian loggers. Historian and campaigner Lukas Straumann goes in search not only of the lost forests and the people who used to call them home, but also the network of criminals who have earned billions through illegal timber sales and corruption. Straumann singles out Abdul Taib Mahmud, current governor of the Malaysian state of Sarawak, as the kingpin of this Asian timber mafia. Taib's family--with the complicity of global financial institutions--have profited to the tune of 15 billion US dollars. Money Logging is a story of a people who have lost their ancient paradise to a wasteland of oil palm plantations, pollution, and corruption--and how they hope to take it back.
Final Reckoning
Author: Romen Bose
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9789814954549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the innermost sanctum of the Prime Minister's private offices among the Minaret-studded buildings of Putrajaya to streets filled with tear-gassed protestors in downtown Kuala Lumpur, Romen Bose, a former international correspondent and political communications consultant to then Prime Minister Najib Razak, provides a gripping and engaging true story of drama, intrigue, violence and incompetence that finally ended the rule of Malaysia's sixty-one year old Barisan Nasional Government in May 2018. With a front-row seat to the major controversies that hit the Najib Razak administration, Romen reveals for the first-time how the country's leadership reacted to the disappearance of MH370 and the still classified covert moves to retrieve the remains of Malaysian victims following the shooting down of MH17. 'Final Reckoning' also gives a blow-by-blow account of how the 1MDB scandal rocked the Government and the attempts by the country's top politicians and their advisers to contain and explain it away.
A Servant of Sarawak: Reminiscences of a Crown Counsel in 1950s Borneo
Author: Peter Mooney
Publisher: Monsoon Books
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 981435838X
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My Life in Sarawak
Billion Dollar Whale
Author: Bradley Hope
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 0316436488
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios). Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar Whale is "an epic tale of white-collar crime on a global scale" (Publishers Weekly), revealing how a young social climber from Malaysia pulled off one of the biggest heists in history. In 2009, a chubby, mild-mannered graduate of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business named Jho Low set in motion a fraud of unprecedented gall and magnitude--one that would come to symbolize the next great threat to the global financial system. Over a decade, Low, with the aid of Goldman Sachs and others, siphoned billions of dollars from an investment fund--right under the nose of global financial industry watchdogs. Low used the money to finance elections, purchase luxury real estate, throw champagne-drenched parties, and even to finance Hollywood films like The Wolf of Wall Street. By early 2019, with his yacht and private jet reportedly seized by authorities and facing criminal charges in Malaysia and in the United States, Low had become an international fugitive, even as the U.S. Department of Justice continued its investigation. Billion Dollar Whale has joined the ranks of Liar's Poker, Den of Thieves, and Bad Blood as a classic harrowing parable of hubris and greed in the financial world.
The White Rajah
Author: Steven Runciman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-02-03
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780521128995
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Wild Malaysia
Author: Junaidi Payne
Publisher: New Holland Publishers Uk Limited
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781845379193
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Borneo Log
Author: William W. Bevis
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780295974163
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →There the rainforest is being cut rapidly, local corruption and greed siphon off most of the profit, native rights and land uses are being obliterated, and much of the fine timber is shipped to Japan to become plywood forms for concrete that are thrown away after two uses.
