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...High Time for Change In your notebook item on Malaysia's new Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, he comes across as a bold reformer [March 15]. The elections in Malaysia were a real nightmare, but the people have finally shown that they are fed up with politicians who try to hinder modernism and secularism. The population's response was clear. May the people of Malaysia have the opportunity to see their country rise above itself with this new government. Sergej Nicolas Thessaloniki, Greece...
There was little surprise when Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi last week dissolved Parliament and called a general election. Nor is the outcome of the March 21 vote much of a cliffhanger: most analysts predict that Abdullah's ruling National Front coalition will comfortably retain its two-thirds majority in Parliament. But the man who succeeded long-serving former PM Mahathir Mohamad last November has shown he intends big changes after the election...
...offenses; in Kuala Lumpur. Kasitah served as a minister three times under former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. Chia, a poor fishmonger's son who built an auto-and-heavy-machinery empire, led various Mahathir-championed commercial projects. The two arrests are considered to be signs that Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi, who took office in October and is expected to call elections soon, is cracking down on corruption. "My first hundred days were my statement of intent," Abdullah said last week. "Now we get to work and walk the talk...
With general elections around the corner, it's no surprise that Malaysia's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is eager to keep attention focused on positive news, such as his government's new anticorruption drive. But Kuala Lumpur is having trouble avoiding persistent questions about Malaysian involvement in the dealings of Abdul Qadeer Khan, the scientist pardoned two weeks ago in Pakistan for providing nuclear weapons technology to North Korea, Libya and Iran...
Three weeks after taking over as Malaysia's Prime Minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is revealing that beneath his smooth exterior is a shrewd politician who just might play rough. Last week, Abdullah told reporters that two costly infrastructure projects awarded to businessman Syed Mokhtar al-Bukhary, one of the favorite industrialists of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, might be renegotiated. In the case of the Bakun dam, a huge hydroelectric project on Borneo, Abdullah said he was "not sure" whether the government would resort to privatization. (Syed Mokhtar's GIIG Capital signed an agreement last August...