News about Najib

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 29): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has today asked if the figure of RM10 billion being offered by some parties to build the controversial East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) realistic.

PETALING JAYA (Aug 29): The 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) scandal is more responsible for bringing down the Barisan Nasional (BN) government in the 14th general election (GE14) than the unpopular goods and services tax (GST), says veteran financial journalist P Gunasegaram.

PETALING JAYA (August 28): In a Facebook post on Monday, Datuk Seri Najib Razak said that he was grateful that “one more slander” against the Barisan Nasional government has been corrected.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 27): The Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said that the government can only refund overpaid taxes when it has the monies to do so.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 27): The recommendations made by the Council of Eminent Persons (CEP) will not be revealed to the public as its function is to report to the country's Prime Minister, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

KUALA LUMPUR (August 24): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has asked the new government to establish a Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) into controversial China-linked projects — the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) and two pipelines under the finance ministry-owned Suria Strategic Energy Resources Sdn Bhd, inked under his administration, after coming under fire for committing Malaysia to mega contracts perceived to be lopsided against it.

BEIJING (Aug 21): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today Malaysia's proposed East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) and two gas pipeline projects will be cancelled due to the government's fiscal position.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 17): Malaysians will now have to prepare to pay various new taxes to be imposed by the PH government due to the abolition of goods and services tax (GST), former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak (pictured) said.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 16): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (pictured) has an approval rating of 71% among Malaysians as at August this year, according to a post-election survey by the Merdeka Centre for Opinion Research.

KUALA LUMPUR (Aug 15): Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said he will not object to the proposed reopening of the 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) investigation by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) as "the truth should be known".