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Saturday, 20 September 2008 08:47 

Written by Lynette Lee Corporal, The Mindanao Examiner

BANGKOK (Asia Media Forum: Sept 19, 2008) - These are dark days, indeed, for Malaysia's bloggers. In the last seven days, authorities have picked up two bloggers, a journalist, and a ranking parliamentarian under the country's draconian national security laws.

The crackdown comes amid rising political tensions as opposition forces led by Anwar Ibrahim maneuver to try to topple the government of Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi in parliament. Anwar has been demanding a vote of no-confidence in the government.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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