News about Dr Mahathir Mohamad

  PUTRAJAYA (May 28): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the government had yet to decide on imposing a bumiputera quota on the civil works that are reserved for local contractors in the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project.

PUTRAJAYA (May 10): A year after the Pakatan Harapan government won the 14th general election (GE14), the administration had achieved 39.

  PUTRAJAYA (May 10): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has introduced a new economic model which advocates shared prosperity, with a target to provide a “decent standard of living for all Malaysians” by 2030 regardless of economic class, race and geographic location.

PUTRAJAYA (May 9): The Pakatan Harapan government is confident of building 100,000 affordable homes by the end of 2019, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pictured).

KUALA LUMPUR (May 9): Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, one of the oldest leaders in the world today, said he feels “as strong as I could be, at the age of 93” when asked if the past year leading the Pakatan Harapan Government as Prime Minister has exhausted him during a special interview on Monday, which coincided with the first day of the Ramadhan fasting month.

PUTRAJAYA (May 7): Malaysia will continue its hunt for Jho Low, a central figure in the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal, because what the country has recovered so far is still far less than what it has lost via the strategic investment fund, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

  PUTRAJAYA (May 7): Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has given what he described as a “conservative” score of five out of 10 to his cabinet ministers — many of whom are first-time ministers — ahead of the Pakatan Harapan coalition’s first year anniversary in government.

PUTRAJAYA (May 6): In a move that will likely escalate tensions between the Johor Palace and the Pakatan Harapan administration, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has slammed the Crown Prince of Johor, Tunku Mahkota Johor Tunku Ismail Ibni Sultan Ibrahim, as "stupid".

  BANTING (May 2): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today investment in the industrialised building system (IBS) is important to provide ample supply of affordable homes in Malaysia.

  KUALA LUMPUR (April 18): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has been listed among Time magazine's 100 most influential people of 2019.