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As oil prices rally, old Opec tensions set to rise

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LONDON: As members of the oil cartel Opec and its allies meet this week to discuss adjusting output, analysts expect old tensions between oil producer giants to flare up again. Russia and Saudi Arabia, respectively the world’s second and third largest producers of oil after the United States, had often been at loggerheads in the […]

Road to independence

On Aug 31, 1957, Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman declared “Merdeka”, announcing to the world that Malaya had become an independent nation. Even then he planned to include neighbouring British colonies Singapore, Sarawak and Sabah and Brunei into a larger federation called “Malaysia”. If the four entities could unite with Malaya into a federation, it […]