Water hogs the headlines

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editors picks in story banner 02Readers with busy schedules during the week would inevitably have missed some of the interesting articles we have put up — news, analyses and comments you don’t get anywhere else. Here are some you just cannot afford to miss:

Pick 1 — The Selangor Water Deal. This examines in detail the undue haste with which the federal and the Selangor state government signed an agreement to resolve the long-outstanding issue, raising all sorts of intriguing questions about Khalid. Read our timely analysis here, here and here.

Pick 2 — Federal Court throws a spanner into SC’s works. Meantime the Federal Court has thrown a spanner into the works of the Securities Commission’s efforts to hold advisers and other participants in bond issues to high standards of accountability. Read about it here and here.

Pick 3 — Senseless airline competition. One of our popular opinion columns TigerTalk focused on the senseless competition in the airline industry which is hurting everyone but the flying public of course. When will Malaysia Airlines learn that it can’t simply fill planes regardless of the cost? Read about it here.

Pick 4 — Do we need 1MDB? Much was said about our our so-called strategic fund 1Malaysia Development Bhd as it secured an RM11 billion 2,000MW power contract. But really, is this fund at all strategic? And do we really need it? Perhaps as much as we need a hole in our heads. Read my take on this here.

Pick 5 — All capital flows are not equal. Read what one former top regulator has to say about capital flows here. You may even want to ask if we need some of them!

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— P Gunasegaram, Publisher and Founding Editor