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...entire nation is holding its breath. Malaysia's embattled Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has already said he will give up power to take responsibility for the ruling coalition's humiliating performance in polls earlier this year. But Abdullah hasn't specified exactly when he might hand over the reins to his deputy, Najib Razak, even though the government's popularity figures are languishing at a record low. Meanwhile, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, whose People's Alliance did surprisingly well in the March elections, boasts that he has lured enough defectors from the governing alliance to form a new government...
...Speaking to Reuters, unnamed local intelligence officials said that the Wednesday strike was the product of improved "U.S.-Pakistani intelligence sharing". But Ahmad Mukhtar, the Pakistani defense minister, says he was taken aback by the attack. "The Mike Mullen visit was very nice and he was very understanding," Mukhtar says. "And now these air strikes have come as a surprise. There is no understanding that the air strikes should happen from the U.S. Whatever is on our side of the border, we will deal with. There is anxiety in the country, and the situation here was meant to be resolved...
...began to blossom as an artist. Unencumbered by the constraints of socialist realism, he began to experiment with Pop Art and Expressionistic techniques. In a time of dictatorship, it was perhaps just as well. "The Suharto era made it impossible for political thought to be rendered in art," says Ahmad Mashadi, head of the Museum of the National University of Singapore Centre for the Arts. In fact, by quitting LEKRA early, Sudjojono escaped the punishment that Suharto was to mete out to leftist artists, and became the most prominent figure of what Kwok calls "the more complex visual terrain...
...capital is increasingly the scene of Taliban attacks - and attendant frustration, even among the part of the populace that welcomes the stability brought by the NATO coalition. Says Ahmad Javed, 33, a shopkeeper: "I used to go to market at least once a week to buy goods for my shop, but now I hardly go to market because I am so much afraid of the suicide bombing. When I go out, I am not sure whether I return alive or not." The week before in Kabul, a taxi driver named Aimal Naheb was stuck in traffic when an explosion lifted...
...Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says there is no link between the sodomy investigation and Anwar's political comeback. But there's no question Abdullah's government is increasingly under fire. In recent weeks, cuts in fuel subsidies have sent usually quiescent Malaysians to the streets in protest. More citizens are criticizing the government's race-based affirmative-action system, which gives Malays privileges in everything from university places to government contracts. (Anwar has promised to reform the system should he come to power.) The ruling alliance has lost its usual cohesion. At one point in mid-June...