	malaysia bails out another commercial bank malaysia s central bank said it uired a pct stake in ailing united asian bank bhd uab the sixth largest commercial bank in the country to rebuild public confidence in it uab called for a rights issue last november to raise mln ringgit to rectify its capital deficiency following an accumulated loss of mln ringgit at end the central bank bank negara said in a statement but only mln ringgit in shares was taken up by shareholders mainly local indian and malay businessmen and the indian government bank negara said it subsequently took up the unsubscribed shares totalling mln of uab s new paid up capital of mln ringgit it said the shares held in trust will be eventually sold the central bank early this week also announced that it had bought pct stake in another troubled commercial bank perwira habib bank malaysia bhd after the latter raised its capital to mln ringgit from in mid january this year bank negara said it does not intend to hold on to the shares of the two banks the injection of capital in phb and in uab including the recamp of management in these banks are some of the measures taken by the bank to strengthen public confidence in the stability of the these banks it added the central bank said it is invoking section a of the banking amendemnt act empowering it to grant loans to an ailing bank or to buy a stake in it reuter 
