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Q&A: ‘Billion Dollar Whale’ co-author Tom Wright talks Jho Low, 1MDB, and the global elite who made the scam of the century possible
Billion Dollar Whale, the new book about Malaysia’s 1MDB scandal from the Wall Street Journal’s Tom Wright and Bradley Hope, at times reads like fiction. The scale of the thefts can be overwhelming. The brazenness jaw-dropping. Jho Low, the book’s central figure, emerges as a sort of Paul Bunyan of profligate spending. From dropping US$85 million on parties ...
Interviews
Interview: we ask the world’s most famous Beatles cover band all of the important questions
Get your lighters ready in the air, and prepare yourselves for a two-hour sing-a-long: The Bootleg Beatles are coming to The Bee, Publika on Nov. 16. The world’s most femes...
Interview: Alicia Amin on the faceless online haters, having an opinion, and whether she has any more f*cks left to give
Can’t seem to write a tweet, or take a picture these days without drawing the ire of netizens, and faceless, yet sanctimonious, bloggers alike. Has everyone always had an...
‘Bangkok Hooker’: A man, his rod and SE Asia debut this week on Discovery (ok, it’s a fishing show)
Sittipon Chanarat, aka please call me Oz, is the Bangkok Hooker. No, not the hourly kind. The kind that catches, and releases (awwww) fish. The “hensem” (that’s...
Urbanscapes 2017: Wisdom, mustard and hangover tips from Locker & Loft
The Urbanscapes house is at it again this Friday and Saturday, with the crew from Locker & Loft hosting a takeover at Office by Tiffin. Last week was the opening party, and...
Urbanscapes 2017 – Coconuts meets: Cigarettes After Sex
Greg Gonzalez from Cigarettes After Sex has been in Malaysia for over 48 hours and he has not had nasi lemak. “How do you spell that?” he asks, passing me his phone so that I...