Attempting to buy shares he doesn't own in Malaysia's Perlis Plantations Berhad, an edible oils conglomerate.

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The difficult areas are likely to be the Malay heartland states of Trengganu, Perlis and Kelantan.

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As it happens, this is the second time Perlis has been recruited for a job at Forbes.

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Kedah is also, as one Barisan activist puts it, "one of the places where Pas can pose a threat, " along with the nearby Malay belt states of Kelantan (which is already ruled by Pas), Trengganu and Perlis.

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Since then Forbes Media announced a new president and CEO, Mike Perlis. (The Forbes brothers will hand off direct management, but Steve will still be editor in chief of the magazines.) It happens that Perlis, though he has a long media background, comes to us from SoftBank Capital, where he's been a partner in that offshoot of Masayoshi Son's company.

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