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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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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 Michael Backman, The Age

September 10, 2008

THE other week, someone in Malaysia emailed me the report of the doctor who examined Saiful Bukhari Azlan — the young Malay man who claimed in June that Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim had sodomised him.


I, along with heaven knows who else who has also seen the doctor’s report, now know that Saiful’s anus was pink  ather than blue, had signs of good oxygenation, and that his rectum showed no evidence of bleeding or damage.

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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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By Robin Brant
BBC News, Kuala Lumpur 

September 13, 2008


Police in Malaysia are still holding an opposition politician and an online blogger after a wave of arrests to try to crack down on dissent.

Three people were detained on Friday under the country's stringent internal security act - which means they can be held indefinitely, without trial.

A vigil has been held near Kuala Lumpur for the politician still being held.

Supporters gathered in a quiet residential backstreet outside their party HQ to light candles and pray.

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