Archive for January 9th, 2008

9 January 2008

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Mula-mula Datuk Seri Najib Razak membantah cadangan penurunan harga minyak. Kini Rafidah Aziz pula melalak menolak kemungkinan harga minyak turun kerana harga pasaran antarabangsa.

Kan kita pengeluar minyak dengan untung bersih RM 80 billion? Asyik dengan pembahagian AP, mana sempat mencongak harga melambung.

Jangan asyik mencabar saya bertanding. Mahkamah diperalatkan untuk menghalang saya. Jika sungguh bagai dikata, sila beri kelulusan saya bertanding!

ANWAR IBRAHIM

9 January 2008

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Kelihatan ramai yang berminat menawarkan khidmat buat KeADILan sebagai sukarelawan. Tahniah atas keberanian sdr/i.
Buat Sdr Juwaini dan lain-lain, diminta menghubungi Din Merican segera, mengisi borang keahlian dan berjuang.

Saya cadangkan agar Sdr Din menganjur pertemuan dengan sukarelawan hujung minggu ini. Buat permulaan, sdr/i boleh juga emelkan ke sukarelawan@angkatanmuda.org pada yang berminat menabur khidmat & buah fikir.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

9 January 2008

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By Gillian Wong in The China Post, January 8

SINGAPORE — Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim accused the government Tuesday of fanning the fires of Islamic puritanism to gain votes in general elections widely expected to be held this year.

Anwar, speaking at a regional forum in Singapore, predicted that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s government would call an election before April, when a ban preventing Anwar from holding political office will be lifted.

Anwar, a former deputy prime minister, criticized recent government efforts to bolster the status of Islam, Malaysia’s official religion, saying the moves undermined the rights of ethnic minorities of other faiths.

“The real issue is what I would describe as state-sponsored Muslim puritanism borne more by racist sentiments than religious principles,” he said. “It is this kind of theology that leads to the rejection of constitutional freedom of other faiths.”

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9 January 2008

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by Jessinta Tan in TodayOnline.com, Singapore

The battle for Penang has begun, and it promises to have the hottest seats contested in the coming Malaysian general election.

This is where two high-profile homegrown politicians — opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim and Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi — will meet head-to-head. This is also where the opposition parties are set to forge an alliance which they hope will unsettle the comfort zone the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) has enjoyed all these years.

Having announced his intention to return to power, Mr Anwar is heading straight home to Penang to prime the battleground for his Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and its allies.

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