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| 2002-03-13 | Ketari I: Opposition aim should be to bleed BN, not win
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| 2002-02-27 | The Singapore Tudung Affair Masks An Internal Conflict
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| 2002-01-10 | The BN supports polygamy for non-Muslims!
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| 2001-12-05 | Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The stupid, idiotic mentri besar cometh!
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| 2001-10-04 | Heads MCA Loses, Tails MCA Loses
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| 2001-08-31 | The Betrayal Of The Merdeka Generation
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| 2001-08-04 | The MCA Fracas: For Whom The Bell Tolls
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| 2001-07-16 | Strains In the Likas Byelection in Sabah
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| 2001-07-15 | First UTAR, Then The Spin
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| 2001-05-10 | The Country Heights Raid: The Kerfuffle Continues
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| 2001-05-10 | The Country Heights Raid: The Kerfuffle Continues
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| 2001-04-27 | UMNO And the Filthy Rich The Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Mahathir Mohamed, runs hither
and thither to avoid being marginalised UMNO. The rush of
young women into Keadilan and PAS forced him to set up
Puteri UMNO for the under-35s. He wants talks on Malay Unity with PAS to neutralise Keadilan. And now he wants to
reform UMNO by barring the filthy rich from party positions.
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| 2001-04-20 | Back problems sees front bencher in top form Anwar's medical condition forced this subtle change. It
took but a few days from Mahathir's refusal to Chua's full
statement. There is reason for this. Anwar is, willy
nilly, the stumbling block to the government's well-being.
Malay Unity talks is stalled because it is to keep him and
his party, Keadilan, out, and forge a political unity pact
with PAS. But what concerns the Malay is not political but
cultural unity.
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| 2001-04-17 | A Black Eye For The Police The Malay Unity talks cannot take place therefore how UMNO
envisages it. When Keadilan declined, the talks became
moot. PAS realises this put in the conditions UMNO could
not possibly meet. PAS is defensive, and rightly so. How
Kuala Lumpur regards the two Malay states, more than 90 per
cent of its residents Malays, shows no commitment to Malay Unity but to naked political power. UMNO and PAS view Malay Unity politically. But both would not like to see Keadilan
prosper.
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| 2001-04-04 | The Prime Minister Spins A Tale Dato' Seri Anwar remains the hidden political
destabiliser in UMNO. The Prime Minister and UMNO president
must take his powerful anti-UMNO influence into account to
wean back the deserting Malay ground. Malay Unity talks
ignoring his predicament is to isolate him. The Malay would
not accept it. Which is why the talks between UMNO and PAS
for one is stalled. The UMNO elections is awry. Dato'
Fauzi Abdul Rahman's revolt in Kelantan unhinges UMNO: he
brought Dato' Seri Anwar, whose close friend he is, on to
centrestage amidst the elections.
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| 2001-03-29 | Is It The Politics Of Islam -- Or Of The Malay? UMNO therefore lost in more ways than one. The Malay Unity talks remain stalled, has become intensely political,
is stuck in the mindless groove of pre-conditions, backed by
legal and political moves that cannot push it forward. But
PAS has gained a notch in allowing to keep the "Islam" in
its name. The Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Mahathir Mohamed,
is under so severe pressure that he needs the Malay Unity
talks. But he does not trust any of his advisers or cabinet
ministers, and he thinks the moves himself. Essentially, he
does not trust any of his cabinet colleagues, least of all
the dauphin, Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
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| 2001-03-29 | Back Surgery Gets Political Doctors Operating Anwar has repositioned himself as irrelevant in the Malay
political confrontation. But in so doing, he is a figure to
watch. Whatever options are considered about Malaysia's
future at the turn of the 21st century, his persona looms
large. Whether it be Malay Unity talks, the survival of Umno
or even if Dr Mahathir Mohamad must continue as prime
minister.
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| 2001-03-14 | Was There A Hidden Hand?
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| 2001-03-14 | The Hunter Is Now The Hunted The National Front, especially UMNO, chases its tail these
days. It cannot make itself heard or understood these days.
When it does, no one listens to it. It ordered one body of
ex-Malaysian students, GPMS, to organise rallies throughout
the country to call for Malay Unity. But the GPMS' raison
d'etre is to obtain contracts and business deals for its
members, and did not know how to go about it amidst Malay
distrust of UMNO's intentions. It cannot, from its high
heights which reflect UMNO arrogance, beat UMNO's drum --
for the drummer would be busy lobbying for contracts in
Ougadougou.
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| 2001-03-12 | Bloody Early Warning Signal The genteel racial confrontations in the national arena
-- between UMNO Youth and Suqiu; the PAS-UMNO talks on
Malay Unity accentuating the racial divide, however you look
at it, between the Malays and the non-Malays; insisting one
political party is not Malay because it accepts non-Malays
as members; the needly confrontation between government and
Chinese community over a school -- must eventually trickle
down to affect racial tension in every community. This
cannot be denied.
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