The government is not bankrolling the use of a 2012 Rolls-Royce Phantom by Sarawak governor Abdul Taib Mahmud when he is in Kuala Lumpur, minister Shahidan Kassim said. Neither did the government ...

Not surprisingly, Taib’s preferred mode of transport is Rolls-Royce and private jet. By 2030, the BMF argued, the indigenous cultures of the Kelabit, ... Taib Mahmud; Latest Stories.

THE sight of a light metallic blue Rolls Royce Phantom VI with a private Kuching registration number KR1963Q here turned a few heads, for seated inside was Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud.

Despite earning a civil servant’s salary for three decades, Taib Mahmud, the powerful chief minister of Malaysia’s Sarawak state, is reputed by critics to be one of Asia’s richest men.

Taib and Laila, who were married in 1959, were blessed with four children, Jamilah, Mahmud Abu Bekir, Sulaiman Abdul Rahman and Hanifah as well as 15 grandchildren.

PETALING JAYA: Tun Abdul Taib Mahmud will always be remembered as a respected statesman, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. The Prime Minister also expressed his deepest condolences to the family of ...

But their own affairs, which have spilled into the public domain, have revealed the extraordinary wealth they enjoy, not least Mr Taib’s penchant for Rolls-Royce cars, which he used during his ...

Mr Taib was an appropriate successor to generations of the British Brooke family, who ran the territory as their own monarchy for a century from 1841. They were known as the White Rajahs.