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...Shared passion for that $27 million treasure, largely paid for by Mokhtar's Islamic charity, the Al-Bukhary Foundation, has evolved into something much bigger in recent years. The bond now constitutes what is Malaysia's most important economic partnership. Mokhtar, a reclusive, 51-year-old multimillionaire, has in recent years gained the trust of the Prime Minister and been awarded a deluge of government contracts. Mokhtar now holds the reins of several key publicly listed companies previously controlled by the government, swelling his empire to include container ports, mines, hotels and oil palm plantations. The publicly traded companies...
...Mahathir's reform drive has coincided with economic revival. After several years of stagnation, Malaysia's GDP will grow at a healthy 6% in 2002, economists project. The country's trade surplus is swelling and international bond rating agencies have been bumping up Malaysia's grades. More important, foreign investors are actually putting their money?so long withheld?back into the country. A recent bond issue by Malaysia's national oil giant Petronas was heavily subscribed. The Kuala Lumpur stock market?shunned by international investors after Mahathir temporarily imposed strict controls on the movement of money out of Malaysia...
...PERFECT BOND GIRL...
...biblical passages on financial planning. The program's fee also covers a three-day crash course for pastors at the N.Y.S.E. In April, in a gilded conference room at the 250-year-old exchange, dozens of black ministers were immersed in Wall Street vocabulary--syndicate, suitability, zero-coupon bond--before taking a tour around the trading floor...
...address is the fourth Harvard Class Day speech he has delivered and the second in three years. Colleagues point to his deep bond with students—he introduces them to their first clinical experience with a patient—and his eloquence as reasons for his popularity in the student voting for class day speaker...