Former beauty queen fails to obtain stay in divorce case against tycoon


Fliepix shows Chai arriving at the High Court in November

KUALA LUMPUR: Pauline Chai Siew Phin, the estranged wife of tycoon Tan Sri Khoo Kay Peng, has failed in her bid to obtain a stay against a High Court decision that the Malaysian courts have jurisdiction to hear their divorce petition.

Justice Yeoh Wee Sian dismissed Chai’s application for a stay pending an appeal in the Court of Appeal and held that the appeal was not a special circumstance warranting a stay.

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