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Harakah, Suara Keadilan banned 3 months

The Home Ministry has suspended the organs of two opposition parties - PAS' Harakah and PKR's Suara Keadilan

- for three months, effective immediately.

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Next Malaysian PM linked to murder

By Jarius Bondoc

Upon winning unopposed in end-March as head of his ruling UMNO party, Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak will become the new PM. Charges of sleaze have stained his political rise. Now a report in French paper Liberation, of ties to a murdered Mongolian model, threatens his career. Reprinted in two parts is the English version, “The Altantuya Case: How and Why She Was Killed”, with permission from author Arnaud Dubus. Writing from Kuala Lumpur, Ulan Bator and Paris, Dubus presents a gripping investigative account:

Things turned dramatic Oct. 2006. Altantuya Sharibu got word that the “commission” from French-Spanish company Armaris had arrived at a Malaysian bank account. It had been paid to Perimekar, a company owned by Abdul Razak Baginda, intermediary of deputy PM and defense minister Najib Razak. Altantuya rushed to Kuala Lumpur to claim her share of the “commission” from Baginda; she said she was entitled to $500,000. Baginda and Altantuya had broken up prior to this.

A jealous Rosmah Mansor, the feared businesswoman-wife of Najib Razak, objected to any payment to Altantuya.

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Don't be naive, race-based politics here to stay
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Much has transpired since the March 8, 2008 political tsunami and much has been said of what is and what is to come. The question is, have we really done away with race-based governance and evolved into a people who have embraced a more ecumenical brand of politics?

Many rational Malaysians may agree that race-based politics is not really the issue here as ultimately we want a government that is just, fair, and upright, regardless of the brand of politics that happens to be the order of the day.

Has Anwar Ibrahim, the leader of Pakatan Rakyat satisfactorily addressed certain pressing issues such as the Bar Council's forum on conversion or something less highlighted such as the Lina Joy saga and the Subshini/Revathi cases? What is his stand on such matters?

It is no surprise that PR has yet or will not respond to such cases or take any stand so as to avoid upsetting the various factions that make up the opposition coalition who have inherently diametrically varying interests.

In short, how is PR different from the BN that we revile?

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Zaid to join another political party soon
By SIMRIT KAUR

PETALING JAYA: Former defacto Law Minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, who was expelled from Umno in December last year, said he will join another political party soon.

Zaid, however, would not reveal which political party it would be.

“I will make a decision soon on the party and I will tell you later.

I am still involved in political issues and speak my mind about important things,” he said.

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