Trump-Najib meet mutually beneficial despite 1MDB brickbats

September 10, 2017 12:42 PM

KUALA LUMPUR/WASHINGTON – Washington’s willingness to host Malaysian leader Najib Razak for a three-day visit beginning Tuesday (Sept 12) has been criticised in both countries due to the United State’s ongoing probe into the billion-dollar 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) graft scandal engulfing the latter.

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