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...Malay civil servant, were so close, and because the Prime Minister openly acknowledged his wife as his savviest political adviser and most trusted confidante, Malaysians are fretting over how her death might affect his leadership. For months, as Endon's condition deteriorated, political speculation in the capital Kuala Lumpur has centered on whether Abdullah has the resolve to go it alone, or if the loss of his wife might lead him to resign...
Shortly after health experts met last week in Kuala Lumpur to craft a plan to control avian flu, Dr. Shigeru Omi, Regional Director for the World Health Organization's (WHO) Western Pacific region, spoke with TIME's Bryan Walsh about the challenge of fighting a highly unpredictable virus, the need to harness international resources, and the terrible toll a human pandemic would take...
...SUSPENDED. MOHAMAD ISA ABDUL SAMAD, 55, Federal Territories Minister of Malaysia and one of the country's three party vice presidents; from membership in the ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) party; in Kuala Lumpur. Isa was suspended for six years after an internal party investigation found that he bought votes during UMNO elections last year. The most senior casualty so far in Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's anti-corruption campaign, Isa has 14 days to appeal the suspension. If it is upheld, he will be forced to resign from his ministership...
...March 9, Malaysian security forces arrested five armed Thai Muslim militants at Kuala Lumpur's Sentral Station, sparking concerns that the insurgency in southern Thailand was threatening to spill over into neighboring Malaysia, potentially including terror attacks in Malaysian cities. But TIME has now learned that the men were in the country to collect a cache of arms hidden by Jemaah Islamiah (J.I.), the al-Qaeda-linked militant network widely blamed for the Oct. 2002 Bali bombings. The connection raises its own set of concerns. In particular, analysts say, ties between Thailand and a wider Muslim militancy might signal...
...Prior to this visit to Saigon, I spent five weeks in Kuala Lumpur, a city I first got to know in 1973 when it struck me as a sleepy, no-hope backwater. Today, Malaysia has raced far ahead of Vietnam, which is still hobbled by corruption, bureaucracy and ugly politics. Vietnam lost a generation of progress because it did not spawn leaders like Malaysia's Mahathir Mohamad to set the country's economic course...