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07
Jan

Tokoh Pakatan Lancar Kempen PAS

Dari Malaysiakini

Oleh Muda Mohd Noor

Pakatan Rakyat memulakan kempen pilihanraya kecil parlimen Kuala Terengganu dengan satu ceramah besar di Kampung Tanjung membabitkan empat tokoh utama PAS, PKR dan DAP.

Penasihat PKR Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, Presiden PAS Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang, Mursyidul Am PAS Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat dan tokoh utama DAP Lim Kit Siang berkempen di depan hampir 10,000 orang malam tadi.

Calon PAS Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut dan bekas ketua Umno bahagian Petaling Jaya Selatan, Datuk Zahar Hashim turut menyampaikan ucapan ringkas.

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07
Jan

Pengundi Muda Cina Cenderung Sokong Pakatan

Dari Malaysiakini

Barisan Nasional (BN) perlu memberikan perhatian yang lebih kepada pengundi muda kaum Cina bagi memastikan golongan itu menyokong calon BN dalam pilihanraya kecil Parlimen Kuala Terengganu pada 17 Januari ini, kata Presiden Gerakan Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon.

Berdasarkan maklum balas yang diterima, golongan berkenaan berkecenderungan menyokong pembangkang berbanding pengundi matang berusia 35 tahun ke atas, yang mampu menilai jasa dan sumbangan kerajaan BN terhadap kehidupan mereka, lapor Bernama.

Bercakap kepada pemberita selepas mengadakan dialog dengan pemimpin pertubuhan Tionghua dan Dewan Perniagaan Cina Kuala Terengganu di Kuala Terengganu malam tadi, beliau berkata rasa penghargaan golongan matang bagaimanapun mungkin tidak dikongsi oleh golongan muda di kawasan parlimen berkenaan.

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07
Jan

Umno Is Like Israel

From The Malaysian Insider

By Debra Chong

KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 7 - Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim drew parallels tonight between the conflict in Gaza and what he called the sufferings of Malaysians as he hit the campaign trail at a mammoth rally attended by thousands here.

Attempting to touch a sensitive chord among the mainly Muslim constituency here, he accused Umno, the main party in the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition, of acting like Israel.

“The leadership is busy collecting wealth. While Israel is punishing the Palestinian people for choosing Hamas, it is no different from Umno punishing Malaysians for choosing the Pakatan Rakyat,” he told a ceramah here on the first day of campaigning for the Kuala Terengganu by-election.

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07
Jan

A Show of Unity From Pakatan In KT

From The Malaysian Insider
By Debra Chong

KUALA TERENGGANU, Jan 7 — Pas candidate Abdul Wahid Endut may be a big man in the local political scene, but the Pakatan Rakyat front is not taking chances.

Amid a series of inter-party spats that are starting to grow into a national nightmare, the leaders sent out a signal that their union, formed less than a year ago, is far from breaking up.

Last night, the heavyweights from all three parties turned up at a mammoth beach rally in Pantai Tanjung, near the town centre here.

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04
Jan

Nazrin: Bersedia hadapi krisis ekonomi

Dari Malaysiakini

Raja Muda Perak, Raja Dr Nazrin Shah hari ini menggesa rakyat Malaysia bersiap sedia menghadapi krisis ekonomi berpanjangan berikutan kelembapan ekonomi global dan krisis kewangan yang teruk sekarang.

“Bagi tahun-tahun mendatang, ancaman kelembapan ekonomi global dan krisis kewangan teruk terus menghantui fikiran kita semua.

“Kesannya terhadap ekonomi domestik tidak dapat dielakkan dan ini dicerminkan dalam langkah persediaan yang diambil oleh kerajaan Malaysia dalam menghadapi jangkaan kegawatan ekonomi domestik,” titah baginda semasa berucap di persidangan Rotary International District 330 ke-74 di Ipoh, lapor Bernama.

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04
Jan

Pejuang bahasa Melayu demo ala Bersih

Dari Malaysiakini

Oleh Jimdie Shah Othman

Pejuang-pejuang bahasa Melayu, yang membantah pengajaran Sains dan Matematik dalam bahasa Inggeris, bercadang menganjurkan perhimpunan besar seperti Gabungan Pilihanraya Bersih dan Adil (Bersih) pada 2007.

Demonstrasi besar itu, yang digelar “Himpunan 100 Ribu Selamatkan Bahasa Melayu”, bagi menyerahkan memorandum kepada Seri Paduka Baginda Yang di-Pertuan Agong di Istana Negara.

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04
Jan

Wahid penuhi ciri kemenangan PAS

Dari Malaysiakini

Oleh Muda Mohd Noor

PAS memilih Mohd Abdul Wahid Endut untuk bertanding kerusi parlimen Kuala Terengganu kerana beliau mempunyai faktor-faktor kemenangan di kerusi itu.

Setiausaha PAS negeri Yahaya Ali berkata, antaranya ahli dan penyokong PAS mahukan beliau bertanding di kerusi tersebut.

“Beliau sudah lima penggal menang di Wakaf Mempelam dan ini menunjukkan orang ramai mahukan beliau.

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01
Jan

Trials Ahead for Anwar

From The Star Online
By By JANE F. RAGAVAN

From an impending sodomy trial to holding Pakatan Rakyat together, 2009 will be tough.

FEW could have anticipated the return of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in such striking fashion prior to the March 8 elections. Released from incarceration in 2004, he continued to be a voice of conscience, rebel-reformer and thorn in the side of Barisan Nasional. Yet, he remained on the margins of mainstream politics.

That changed after the events of March 8 and a convincing victory in the Permatang Pauh by-election in August which led to his ceremonious return to parliament as leader of the opposition, transforming him into an indelible force in the unfolding of the political future of the country.

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01
Jan

Anwar Ibrahim, probably Malaysia’s greatest comeback kid

From The Malaysian Insider
By Leslie Lau
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 31 — On a hot night in March, at the height of the general election campaign, about two hundred people stood on the lane outside a block of flats in Section 17 in Petaling Jaya near here, and waited patiently for the arrival of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

The crowd, though small, was enthusiastic when Anwar arrived and immediately addressed them with the kind of energy and polish which makes him probably one of the most talented and gifted politician this country has seen.

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26
Dec

Enter Najib, With Baggage

From The Economist

A new leader mired in accusations

ONE could certainly say that Najib Razak was born to be Malaysian prime minister. He is the son of Abdul Razak, the second man to hold that job following independence from Britain, and the nephew of his successor, Hussein Onn. Elected to parliament aged 23, on his father’s death, he rose to become deputy to the present prime minister, Abdullah Badawi. However, Mr Najib, expected within months to become the country’s sixth post-independence leader, will enter under a cloud of allegations, including ones linking him to a murder case, all of which he categorically denies. But some Malaysians will be wondering if he is a
fit person to lead them.

Facing a revitalised opposition, in an election earlier this year the governing coalition, led by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), lost the two-thirds majority it needs to change the constitution. Since then, the knives have been out for Mr Badawi. Despite his efforts to cling on he is being forced to quit next March.

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23
Dec

Over 4,700 workers to be retrenched, says Subra

From The Star

By Royce Cheah

PETALING JAYA: At least 4,749 workers, mostly from the electronics sector, will be retrenched by 137 employers in the next three months, Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam said.

He said the figures, including some 1,500 Western Digital workers in Kuching, were updated as of yesterday.

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23
Dec

In remarks ignored by the mainstream media, Anwar flags the malady in Malaysian higher education quality.

From Malaysia Today

By Terrence Netto

Education is the race between civilization and oblivion, said Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in wide ranging remarks that virtually paraphrased H. G. Wells, the British futuristic writer, who once described education as the race between civilization and catastrophe.

While not comparably apocalyptic in tone, the PKR supremo, in recent speeches in the Dewan Rakyat on the Budget estimates on education and on amendments to the University and University Colleges Act, looked through our educational glass and felt impelled to report darkly.

“Our slumping economic fortunes are traceable to the recession in our education quality,” he said. “We are a nation at risk,” he cautioned.

Anwar saw as indivisible the link between educational quality and economic competitiveness.

“Our competitors in the region, once flailing in our wake, have caught up and are now ahead of us. We have lost our once frontal position in the region in commerce, industry, science and technological innovation,” said Anwar.
He cited several indices of decline such as the annual survey by the Times Higher Educational Supplement which saw our premier University Malaya fluctuating in the nether regions, if not actually bundled out of the publication’s annual top 200 classification. Anwar also quoted from studies and comments made about Malaysian education over two decades, including a survey done in 1983. All of them, he claimed, flagged the declension in our educational standards.

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