Sunday, December 26, 2010

Classic Epic: Malaysian Raid Over British Guthrie

Master Pwner : 4th Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad
His Army: Permodalan Malaysia Berhad
Description: and Epic Raid to take over Guthrie palm oil and rubber plantation company on the London Stock Exchange. -Success- 
-Epic Win-

what is a raid? 
- a sudden attack to take over something
- a group of smaller army conspiring to surprisely attack a larger enemy
- to rob or to take over something by surprise

What is Guthrie
-British palm and rubber plantation and trading company owned by British, founded in Singapore
-introduced rubber and palm to Malaysia

The Story
- 1981, Mahathir engineered a raid to take over Guthrie and make it fully malaysia owned.
- it is done by Permodalan Malaysia Berhad
- a success, after 4 hour of raiding British Stock Exchange
- took the World by surprise (epic win)

The Result
-return ownership of some 200,000 acres (800 km²) of agricultural land back to Malaysians.
-temporary bitter relation with British Goverment

@W. Bush, u cannot come to a country and change his goverment to your liking, it is not your right, it is for the local citizens to dicide themselves. - Mahathir Mohamad

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