Bakau Review — latest reporting

Long reports built from tender notices, audit findings and disclosure filings.

Investigation

A port logistics tender changed shape three times before it closed

Addenda, an evaluation sheet and a board minute show how a freight contract moved between the notice and the award.

Nurul Adzman · 27 July 2026

Investigation

A water subsidy line grew for three years without a matching reconciliation

District meter records and the authority's own quarterly filings diverge on how many households the subsidy actually reached.

Danial Rashid · 13 July 2026

Investigation

A digital services purchase split into two invoices, and the paperwork never quite lined up

Specification, warranty and asset-register records for one contract disagree on what was bought, when, and for how much.

Farah Iskandar · 29 June 2026

Investigation

An equipment supplier changed hands four times on paper in eighteen months

Company registry filings show a pattern of stand-in shareholder and a dormant registered entity behind a recurring government supplier.

Wei Ling Chan · 12 June 2026

Investigation

A land valuation was dated three weeks before the survey it relied on was finished

Two appraisals, a moved access road and a compensation figure show how a single parcel's value shifted ahead of a road project's groundbreaking.

Amirul Sabri · 28 May 2026

How allocations are set, moved and reported — and how to read them yourself.

Public Money

How to read an Auditor-General's report without getting lost in the annexes

The office's reports follow a consistent structure once a reader knows where each finding sits and what each status marker means.

Suhaila Merican · 20 July 2026

Public Money

The federal budget cycle, from ceiling to line item

A single year's budget passes through five distinct stages before a ringgit reaches a project, and only some of those stages leave a document a reader can follow directly.

Suhaila Merican · 6 July 2026

Public Money

Development allocation and development spend are two different numbers

A project's approved budget and what actually leaves the treasury for it rarely match in a given year, and the gap between them is routine rather than remarkable on its own.

Amirul Sabri · 22 June 2026

Public Money

Direct negotiation and open tender leave very different paper trails

Both are legitimate procurement routes, but each publishes a different set of documents, and knowing which route a contract used tells a reader what to ask for.

Danial Rashid · 5 June 2026

What oversight bodies are empowered to do, in plain language.

Institutions

What the Public Accounts Committee can and cannot examine

The committee's remit is set by standing order rather than by statute, and it stops well short of the powers a reader might assume it holds.

Wei Ling Chan · 16 July 2026

Institutions

The procurement framework, in plain terms

One rulebook governs how public bodies buy goods, works and services, and knowing its structure explains why some contracts publish more than others.

Nurul Adzman · 30 June 2026

Institutions

The company registry as a reader's tool, not just a lawyer's one

A registry search is free, public and often the fastest way to check who actually stands behind a name on a contract.

Wei Ling Chan · 16 June 2026

Institutions

Why requesting a public document looks different from state to state

Access rules for state-held records are set state by state, not by a single federal law, and that patchwork shapes what a reader can expect and how long it takes.

Amirul Sabri · 19 May 2026

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• 27 July 2026 A port logistics tender changed shape three times before it closed
• 13 July 2026 A water subsidy line grew for three years without a matching reconciliation
• 29 June 2026 A digital services purchase split into two invoices, and the paperwork never quite lined up
• 12 June 2026 An equipment supplier changed hands four times on paper in eighteen months
• 28 May 2026 A land valuation was dated three weeks before the survey it relied on was finished
• 20 July 2026 How to read an Auditor-General's report without getting lost in the annexes
• 6 July 2026 The federal budget cycle, from ceiling to line item
• 22 June 2026 Development allocation and development spend are two different numbers
• 5 June 2026 Direct negotiation and open tender leave very different paper trails
• 16 July 2026 What the Public Accounts Committee can and cannot examine
• 30 June 2026 The procurement framework, in plain terms
• 16 June 2026 The company registry as a reader's tool, not just a lawyer's one
• 19 May 2026 Why requesting a public document looks different from state to state