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Mahathir bin Mohamad (Jawi: محاضر بن محمد; [1] IPA: [mahaðɪ(r) bɪn mohamad]; born 10 July 1925) is a Malaysian politician, author, and physician who was the fourth and seventh Prime Minister of Malaysia from 1981 to 2003 and again from 2018 to 2020. He was the country's longest-serving prime minister, serving for a cumulative ...
Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is still receiving treatment in hospital and is recovering from an infection, his spokesman said on Tuesday, dismissing speculation the 98-year ...
Mahathir's representative, Osman Aroff, also received the death threat call. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] After Ibrahim Ali's report, police questioned six individuals to assist in investigating the tape. The investigation focused on identifying the source, the speaker, and those responsible for producing and distributing the tape, while efforts were made to ...
Mahathir opposes an expansion of LGBT rights in Malaysia. [ 28 ] [ 29 ] In 2001, Mahathir said that any homosexual ministers from the United Kingdom would be barred from entering Malaysia. [ 30 ] During an October 2018 lecture to university students in Bangkok , Mahathir contrasted Malaysian values with those of Western nations and cited "the ...
(Bloomberg) -- At 97, Mahathir Mohamad was looking to the future, plotting to form a government once again after Malaysia’s national vote. Instead, the country’s longest-serving leader finds ...
Mahathir Mohamad's second term as the Prime Minister of Malaysia, which lasted from 2018 to 2020, was marked by several significant developments and events.Having previously led the country from 1981 to 2003, Mahathir came out of retirement in response to the 1MDB scandal.
In 2018, Mahathir Mohamed defeated Najib in elections, and subsequently questioned the railway’s cost. Malaysia delayed the project, then ultimately terminated it in 2021.
Free Malaysia Today emerged from the aftermath of the 1990s Reformasi period in Malaysian history, during which Malaysia's government, under Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad, attacked various journalistic media in response to their efforts to investigate the government—particularly its prosecution of Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim.