One of the most popular debates on the Malaysian blogosphere is about political intervention in Petronas. An example is the venom that accompanied the appointment of Sheryl Stothard into the corporate affairs team; Stothard had previously been a senior figure in Parti Rakyat Malaysia, a political party.
An interesting twist, though, came as Hassan Merican’s successor was being debated, and it came from Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, a former Malaysian finance minister who was also the founding chairman of Petronas. Tengku knows Petronas as well as anyone, and...
