Abdullah Ahmed Badawi Speaking to reporters after chairing the Barisan Nasional Supreme Council meeting today, Abdullah said he would stay on as Prime Minister until March as he wanted to see several initiatives to be implemented before he leaves.
Among them is to reform the judiciary, his effort to fight corruption and the special complaints commission [...]
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Written on October 8, 2008 | Posted in
Asia
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim pledge Monday he has enough score to topple the present government and wants to meet with Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to discuss a peaceful transition of power.
After landmark March elections that saw the opposition dramatically increase its seats in parliament, Anwar set a September 16 deadline to oust the [...]
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Written on September 15, 2008 | Posted in
Asia
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will be sworn in as a member of parliament on Thursday, his party said, after a landslide by-election victory that ended his decade-long political exile. Anwar, who was sacked as deputy premier in 1998 and jailed on sodomy and corruption charges, returns to parliament as the head of the [...]
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Written on August 27, 2008 | Posted in
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Anwar Ibrahim the opposition leader of Malaysia started his way towards parliament again after the absence of a decade. Anwar’s majority of 15,671 votes was bigger than that obtained by his wife Datuk Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail in the March general election.
The third candidate, Hanafi Mamat, who contested on a Parti Keadilan Insan [...]
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Written on August 26, 2008 | Posted in
Asia
The hospital report leaked yesterday confirms our contention that the allegations leveled against me are baseless and politically motivated and that the complainant is an outright liar working hand in glove with those in power to assassinate my character and attempt to derail the people’s aspirations for transformational change in government.This report makes a mockery [...]
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Written on July 29, 2008 | Posted in
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Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Thursday he was the victim of a “vendetta”, after being held overnight on sodomy accusations levelled by a young male aide.
Anwar, who was released on bail, said he was treated like a “major criminal” and needed medical treatment after a night in a bare cell at Kuala Lumpur police [...]
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Written on July 19, 2008 | Posted in
Asia
Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim arrived at the city police headquarters here in a white Pajero at 1.15pm Wednesday after being arrested by the police.He had been arrested in front of his house in Bukit Segambut.
His lawyer Sankara Nair said the police told Anwar that he was being arrested for investigations under Section 377C of the [...]
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Written on July 16, 2008 | Posted in
Asia
The BN chairman and Umno president denied Parti Keadilan Rakyat claims that the police report against its de facto leader was intended to sabotage Anwar’s political standing. “I don’t have such intention or plan at all. Yesterday, someone SMSed me (about the report). If that is so, let the police investigate and take appropriate action. [...]
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Written on June 29, 2008 | Posted in
Asia
Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim took refuge at the Turkish Embassy on Sunday after police began probing an allegation that he sodomized his male aide, reprising a sex scandal that led to his imprisonment a decade ago. Anwar, 60, dismissed the accusation, made in a police complaint filed by the 23-year-old aide on Saturday, as [...]
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Written on June 29, 2008 | Posted in
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Pakistan Hockey Federation have named five junior team players in the Pakistan senior hockey team to participate in the next month’s Azlan Shah Hockey Cup Tournament to be played in Malaysia, announced President Mir Zafarullah Jamali here on Tuesday.President Pakistan Hockey Federation, Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali announced the squad at a news conference after completion [...]
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Written on April 24, 2008 | Posted in
Hockey
The streets of Malaysia showing some political excitement through banners and posters waving in the streets and roads side. Malaysian government is being run by a coalition since its independence from UK. The coalition is among more than 20 parties and named as Barisan National. In upcoming election Barisan national has unveiled its menifesto which [...]
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Written on February 25, 2008 | Posted in
Asia
Malaysia detained 5 hindu extremist leaders under ISA. The five were lawyers P. Uthayakumar, R. Kengadharan, V. Ganabatirau, M. Manoharan and a senior executive with Malaysia Building Society Bhd, K. Vasantha Kumar.ISI is an internal security act which can detain any body in the country who poses threat to the national security.
This is a good [...]
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Written on December 14, 2007 | Posted in
Asia