News about Mahathir Mohamad

Apart from the two former PMs, the other three defendants named in the suit filed by Mohd Hatta Sanuri, 47, are former minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Economy) Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed, former transport minister Datuk Seri Dr Wee Ka Siong and the government.

In the statement of claim, Mohd Hatta said Mahathir, who was then the seventh PM, had committed tort misfeasance in public office when he decided to postpone the HSR project, causing the government and the Malaysian people to pay compensation of almost RM46 million to the Singapore government.

PETALING JAYA (Aug 6): Former Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad held the first meeting of a Shadow National Recovery Council on Zoom last night.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 22): Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad believes the money withdrawn by Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman that led to him being charged today could have been the collection when Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) was being banned by the then Barisan Nasional government and not the party's funds.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 8): Parti Pejuang Tanahair led by former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is finally registered today.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 10): Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said he proposed the setting up of a National Operations Council (Mageran) during his audience with the Yang di-Pertuan Agong today, as a potential solution to the issues Malaysia is currently facing.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 18): Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad along with four other Pejuang leaders were today allowed to intervene in lawyer Dr Syed Iskandar Syed Jaafar Al Mahdzar's originating summons (OS) seeking the court's interpretation of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong's discretion in deciding whether or not to declare a state of emergency.

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 18): The Government and Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin yesterday moved to strike out the suit brought by staunch Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad supporter Datuk Seri Khairuddin Abu Hassan against them regarding the emergency proclamation.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 24): Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pictured) claimed today that Malaysia’s stock market will collapse completely if a state of emergency is declared in the country as the nation contends with the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 13): Former Attorney-General (AG) Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali (pictured) has filed a lawsuit against former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and the Government of Malaysia, over what he claimed was the unlawful termination of his post as AG in 2018.