Malaysia's Amazing Race

The story of Malaysians overseas who were on an amazing race to get their postal votes home – all on a mission to save Malaysia!

GE14 rallied Malaysians as never before. 

And we all know the result. A new government, a new hope, a new future! 

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein (right) turned himself in to the New York Police Department’s First Precinct on May 25, 2018. 

He was arraigned on charges of first degree rape, forcible oral sex, and third degree rape. 

The charges involve two alleged victims. The first is Lucia Evans, who came forward with allegations that Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex at his Tribeca office in 2004. The rape charge concerns a woman who has not been identified, who alleges that Weinstein held her against her will at a Manhattan hotel room in 2013. According to the complaint, Weinstein forced the woman to have sex though she “had clearly expressed her lack of consent to the act”. 

The judge issued a protective order Friday, barring either side from releasing the woman’s name. 

Prosecutor Joan Illuzzi-Orbon had described him as using his “position, money and power to lure young women into situations where he was able to violate them sexually”. 

Weinstein’s arrest came after more than 80 women accused him of sexual misconduct last year, sparking the #MeToo anti-harassment movement that spread around the world and exposed cultures of complicity in entertainment, media, sports and politics. 

Yet even as the stories piled up, the allegations against Weinstein stood apart, painting a portrait of a man for whom sexual assault had become a routine, enabled by his handlers and his unquestioned power in Hollywood. 

In the New Yorker, Evans said Weinstein had forced her to perform oral sex during an audition in New York. “I said, over and over, ‘I don’t want to do this, stop, don’t'”, she said. But she said Weinstein simply ignored her and later acted as if nothing had happened. Paz de la Huerta said Weinstein raped her twice in her apartment. “I was so terrified of him”, she told Vanity Fair. “I did say no, and when he was on top of me I said, ‘I don’t want to do this.’ He kept humping me and it was disgusting. He’s like a pig”. 

Weinstein’s alleged misconduct was one of the biggest open secrets in Hollywood. 

Yet he eluded public accountability for decades, protecting himself through secret payoffs and non-disclosure agreements. He allegedly threatened the careers of women who turned him down, and wielded such influence that the threats were taken seriously. 

The one woman who did report him to the police, Italian model Ambra Battilana, was smeared in the tabloids before prosecutors decided they did not have enough evidence to file a charge. 

Weinstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman has entered a not guilty plea.