News about Mahathir Mohamad

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 4): The prime minister’s statement yesterday that the government will study if there is a need to reintroduce the scrapped goods and services tax (GST) — the removal of which was one of Pakatan Harapan’s key pledges in the 14th general election (GE14) — is unlikely to gain traction among the rakyat.

KUALA LUMPUR (Sept 21): Putrajaya's plan to redevelop Kampung Baru will not push the Malay residents away from the historical part of the city, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad assured.

KUANTAN (Aug 22): Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) is in favour of Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd (Lynas) continuing operations of its rare earth plant in Gebeng here because of the huge investment it brought to the country, said the party’s Supreme Council (MT) member Wan Saiful Wan Jan.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 3): Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad should finish a full term as prime minister, said PKR vice-president Zuraida Kamaruddin, The Star reported today.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 25): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has denied saying he would hand over the premiership to PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim after serving for three years.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 24): Rare earths producer Lynas Corp says today that it is committed to relocating the first stage processing of its rare earth – where the material is separated from the low level, naturally occuring radioactive material (NORM) it is found with – to Australia over the next five years.

KUALA LUMPUR (June 24): Local think tank Socio-Economic Research Centre (SERC) says it will be "still quite challenging" for Malaysia to achieve a gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 5% for the full year of 2019 due to the contraction in export and slowdown in private investment figures.

PUTRAJAYA (June 11): The government has not come out with a decision on the targeted fuel subsidy mechanism that was proposed in the election manifesto, said Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

PUTRAJAYA (June 11): The government is looking into reducing the number of processes that businesses and investors need to go through to do business in Malaysia, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

  PUTRAJAYA (May 28): The federal government is writing off a sum of RM3.