It’s 2021 but here’s a plot twist that happened as Thai authorities charged four democracy activists with royal defamation with the protest movement rocking the kingdom put on hold because of a spike in cases of coronavirus. In a major upsurge in Thailand’s use of its strict lese majeste laws since a youth-led protest movement began last July, a total …

Country Heights Holdings Bhd President Tan Sri Lee Kim Tiong confirmed that his other company had previously received an RM5.9 million check from Lewis & Co — a law firm named in Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi — for two Country Heights homes. Lee, who testified as the 57th prosecution witness in Zahid ‘s money-laundering and corruption trial, said that …