Words matter. These are the best Clare Rewcastle Brown Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I think people knew why I was doing what I was doing. They knew I wasn’t part of an interest group. And, in a way, by attacking me, the Malaysian establishment identified me as someone who was principled and prepared to stand up to them.
My mother would drag me to remote clinics to show the indigenous Dayaks what a healthy baby should look like.
Fake news was manufactured to the tune of millions of dollars in an attempt to discredit my story.
In the end I got a major newspaper in South East Asia to buy a whistleblower’s account for a ludicrous bunch of money. Off I toddled, published the story, which the newspaper didn’t dare do in the end and then of course I was unleashed into a rollercoaster of denial and backlash.
My investigations have indicated that Taib and his family have a property empire in Canada, the US and the UK. Funds have been generated by Taib selling off rainforests with some of the money going through the British Virgin Islands.
Having grown up on Sarawak, a Malaysian state on Borneo, I had become increasingly incensed by the seemingly mad and wanton destruction of the world’s third largest and most biodiverse rainforest, the Borneo Jungle.
A super rich elite have emerged thanks to the lack of law and order, and thanks to the lack of jurisdiction over the transfers of international wealth.
I discovered the Internet. I started seeing how much company information was out there – they didn’t think it would be accessible to a middle-aged journalist sitting in her kitchen in England.
I must try to do something. I’ll never forgive myself if I don’t try.
As a kid, my first friends were the local children and we used to climb trees and run barefoot, dodging the odd scorpion.
I soon realised the state rulers were being protected by the federal government who relied on these rotten boroughs to deliver their vote.
I have had to put in police reports that I have been stalked and followed.
But I have this vivid memory of flying over Borneo down the coast to Singapore. It was a two-hour journey in those days, and I remember looking out the window for two hours at this amazing canopy of unbroken jungle beneath me.
I disapprove of the analysis that Jho Low was special and that he pulled off something amazing, because I think he was just one of many.
I’m fairly practiced at squirreling out stories and sources – I talk to people; I ask people if they know anyone worth talking to.
Exposing the world’s biggest financial heist, the so-called 1MDB scandal, turned out to be an adventure in more ways than one.
I grew up as this rather lonely European kid living in the east Malaysian jungle.