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...leader will be the first opposition politician to ever become Malaysia's Prime Minister. "With Anwar resurgent and within a whisker of the top job, there are uncanny similarities between the 1998 [political] crisis and the current one," says Wong Chin Huat, a political scientist at Monash University's Kuala Lumpur campus. Anwar puts it more bluntly. "I thought, 'Not again,'" he told TIME. "But this shows how desperate the government is. The economy is in a bad state, [parliamentarians] are crossing over to our side, there's turmoil within UMNO...
...Malaysia A Scandal Revived Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim emerged from the Turkish ambassador's residence in Kuala Lumpur on June 30, a day after he sought sanctuary there following accusations that he sodomized a 23-year-old male aide. Anwar vehemently denied the allegations, which he denounced as political smear tactics fabricated by a coalition government in danger of losing power for the first time since Malaysia gained independence, in 1957. The charges, which have sidetracked Anwar's plans to re-enter Parliament, echo those preceding his 1998 imprisonment for sodomy. That conviction--overturned in 2004--came after...
...former adviser to Najib, was charged with abetting the murder of his Mongolian ex-lover. The aide is now standing trial, along with two government security agents who are accused of having killed the woman and blowing up her body with military-grade explosives in a jungle clearing near Kuala Lumpur. Najib has denied any knowledge of or involvement in the murder...
...Like many young Indian executives, Sapre and her husband Parag, who works with Satyam Computer Services Ltd., thought a stint working at giant IT corporations in Bangalore would be a great addition to their resumes. But a year on, the Sapres are stressed out, and ready to move to Kuala Lumpur, the capital of Malaysia. "Our jobs keep us so busy that we only meet each other on weekends; there's no work-life balance," says Amrita, "And then there's the infrastructure. Yesterday there was a 15-minute hailstorm, and it brought the city to a standstill. Bangalore just...
...Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations (HPAIR)—a student-led initiative at the College concerned with issues in the Asia-Pacific region—announced this week that it will hold two conferences this summer in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, focusing on the “challenges and opportunities” facing Asia today...