The Malaysian leader who symbolised Asia’s economic surge in the 1990s tacitly acknowledges those days are gone forever.

(BLOOMBERG): Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has walked away from one of the big intellectual drivers of his decades at Malaysia's helm: The idea that the former commodity-dependent backwater could be transformed into a fully developed country by 2020. It's vital for the South-East Asian nation’s future that the right lessons be learned from this letdown.