Published by The Associated Press
September 19, 2008
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: Malaysia’s deputy leader abruptly scrapped a trip to the Middle East on Friday amid deepening political uncertainty sparked by opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s attempt to seize power.
Also Friday, police released an opposition lawmaker who was detained last week along with two other people under a law allowing indefinite detention. The arrests had intensified the climate of political restlessness in the country.
By Ahirudin Attan aka rockybruFriday, September 19, 2008 See the list of ISA detainees here. Sixty-five. Don’t forget, there are 65 of them in there. The name at the very top of the list is Yazid Sufaat, a businessman in his previous life, an alleged Jemaah Islamiah member, arrested in Dec 2001 and detained in Kamunting … Read more
View Current Signatures – Sign the Petition To: Prime Minister of Malaysia We, citizens and friends of Malaysia from the international community, call upon Dato’ Seri Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi, Prime Minister of Malaysia, to act immediately to set free Raja Petra Kamaruddin and Teresa Kok who are presently being held in detention without … Read more
By Edward Russell, FinanceAsia.com
18 September 18, 2008
With the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition’s first defection, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s threats to form a new government gain strength.
While Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim failed to fulfil his promise to form a new government this week, the country’s first ever coalition defection has improved his chances of success. Wednesday’s walk-out by the Sabah Progressive Party from the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition guarantees that the country’s six-month long political limbo will continue.
The decision by the Sabah Progressive Party’s two parliamentarians to leave the coalition is an unprecedented move in Malaysian politics. No member of the ruling 14-party BN coalition has ever defected in the coalition’s 39 years of leadership.
By Andrew Symon, Asia Times Online
September 17, 2008
SINGAPORE – If Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim is successful in his historic bid to form a reformist government in Kuala Lumpur, he will likely owe much to the country’s Borneo states of Sabah and Sarawak.
Anwar claimed on Tuesday he had secured the parliamentary numbers needed to topple Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi’s beleaguered government and called for “handover talks” towards a peaceful political transition. The government refuted that claim, saying Anwar was employing the “politics of distraction” because he failed to achieve his avowed September 16 deadline to seize power through parliamentary defections.
By Bernard Khoo aka zorro
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Details are sketchy. I met Sheih on the day Jeff Ooi and Rocky was summoned to Denmark House over a defamation suit brought against them by NST. Since then we have forged a close friendship despite his having to relocate to Kota Bahru to be an aide to YB Datuk Husam Musa.
Bloggers and those who visit/comment on blogs have come to acknowledge Shieh’s dedication to justice and fairplay. In solidarity with Shieh’s wife Bariah and kids lets keep him and them in our thoughts and in our prayers.
Written by Vijay Joshi, AP
Wednesday, 17 September 2008 08:59
Posted by kasee in Malaysia-Today
Malaysia’s opposition leader said Tuesday he has more than enough pledges of support from ruling coalition lawmakers to topple the government, and urged the prime minister to give up power voluntarily.
Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim’s claims — his strongest yet and seemingly beyond the likelihood of a bluff — signaled he could be on the verge of nudging the ruling National Front coalition from power for the first time since independence in 1957.
Written by Editor, CPI
By YL Chong aka Desiderata,
John Lee Min Keong
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
I play mentor to some Y&As, they too play role reversal some times. A particular one is wellknownblogger johnleemk, now shunting to-and-fro US-NZ-danNEGARKU often enough to bring out the greeneyed babe in Desi. For those not-in-the-know, his writings belie his tender age — when I first bum-ped into him in blogsworld, he was sweet 17, a “long” time ago in 2006.
mKini video on CPI offcial opening
Pix courtesy of TV Smith at zorro-zorro-unmasked.blogspot.com.
Written by YL Chong aka Desiderata
and Capt Yusof Ahmad aka Ancient Mariner
and the crowd went wild!
At around 11.20PM September 15, 2008 the air at the 30,000-capacity KELANA JAYA STADIUM was pregnant with expectancy. Datuk Seri Anwar Ibharim, just an hour ago referred to as the next Prime Minister of Malaysia by none other than compatriot Sdr Kamaruddin Jaafar, S-G of PAS, had been speaking now for 20 minutes, building up the spirits of the 15,000-strong truly multi-racial throng with spirited roundups of Pakatn Rakyat’s efforts post-March 8 — in SELANGOR, PERAK, PULAU PINANG, KEDAH and KELANTAN — to distinguish itself from the BN-ruled states. And DSAI finaly delivered in BM what the crowd had come to listen to. And the atmosphere burst into euphoria seldom tasted at a rally — there was hardly any police presence, change had arrived.