Word: badawi
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...RISE OF CHINA TIME: The coming East Asia summit is an unprecedented gathering of Asia's leaders. Do you see it as an epochal moment for the region? LEE: It happened in an unplanned, almost accidental, way. Abdullah Badawi, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, offered to host an East Asia summit: ASEAN plus three - the three being China, Japan and South Korea. China's premier, Wen Jiabao, then offered to host the second summit. That would move the center of gravity away from Southeast to Northeast Asia and make some countries anxious. We agreed that we should also invite India...
...days last week, Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi set aside his responsibilities as the nation's leader and took up another, more difficult role: that of a grieving husband. Abdullah's wife of four decades, Endon Mahmood, died on Oct. 20 at age 64 after a four-year battle with breast cancer. In a relatively conservative country with a Muslim majority, the couple were known for their public displays of affection, often hugging or bestowing pecks on each other's cheeks. During the funeral, Abdullah, 65, did his best to appear stoic. Wearing a traditional black songkok...
...country?s first-ever multiparty presidential vote was that after decades of authoritarian rule, Egyptians were actually offered a choice of contenders for the top office. (Mubarak?s four previous six-year terms were affirmed by referendum rather than in competitive elections.) Although the turnout was low, many like Badawi sought to make full use of the newly sanctioned right to cast ballots for an opposition candidate. Instead of receiving the 99% or so approval he routinely received in the referendums on his presidency, Mubarak was expected to receive between 70-80%. The air of freedom swept...
...Iman Badawi trudged up two flights of stairs inside the ramshackle Helwan School for Girls, looking for the classroom that had been turned into a polling station. The 42-year-old former teacher said she was certain that President Hosni Mubarak?s ruling party would rig the vote as it had done in past elections. Nonetheless, she took her 10-year-old daughter by the hand, entered the room and cast her ballot for opposition candidate Ayman Nour. ?I brought my daughter to show her the importance of participating,? Badawi said outside the school in Helwan, an industrial city...
...might as well have a foreigner for a Prime Minister. Why not, if he has brains?" MAHATHIR MOHAMAD, former Malaysian Prime Minister, criticizing his successor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi for sacking the head of Malaysian national carmaker Proton and considering hiring a foreigner as a replacement...