Month February 2009

By-elections a litmus test for Barisan Nasional

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Five by-elections in one year is startling enough but to have three of them squashed into one month is pretty extraordinary. Two by-elections have been held since the March 2008 general election, which saw the Barisan Nasional ruling coalition take…

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Najib helps PR to consolidate

It may not sound right at first glance that Malaysia’s incoming Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak had united the opposition but unwittingly the recent maneuvours in Perak that caused the fall of Pakatan Rakyat state government have resulted in stronger bonds among opposition…

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Nineteen seventy-four

I am thinking to write an article reflecting on the recent political situations but couldn’t find sufficient time to sit down and develop it in a coherent manner. Perhaps let me share it with you here in pointer form. Within UMNO, there is a view that…

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Eli

To Elizabeth Wong with sympathy. The invasion of Eli’s privacy is a sad reflection of Malaysian politics.

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By-elections will be a referendum on key issues

The simultaneous by-elections in the Bukit Gantang parliamentary constituency in Perak and Bukit Selambau state seat in Kedah will be, in a way, a referendum on various contentious issues, especially on the Perak political crisis. DAP’s Bukit Bendera Member of Parliament Liew Chin Tong said…

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