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...weeks that there were no SARS victims in the country, the number of suspected cases leapt from zero to 59 in just a few days. Critics quickly assailed Kuala Lumpur for the same obfuscatory practices used in China that may have contributed to the disease's silent spread. The Malaysian government flatly denied a cover-up, and top health officials held daily briefings for reporters, leading even its harshest critics to acknowledge that the government appeared to have learned from past episodes of stonewalling during disease outbreaks. In faraway Washington, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson briefed President...
Amien Rais, the speaker of Indonesia’s top legislative body, proclaimed, “Bush is the real evil and the real terrorist.” Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad publicly stated his fear that the Iraq invasion was only the beginning in “a war to dominate the world...
...Those kinds of conversations are no more. They've been replaced by versions of an exchange I had recently in Kuala Lumpur. A Malaysian political analyst asked about my provenance. As I replied his eyes narrowed. "Can you explain what your President is doing...
...Less polished and more popular with the older crowd is Guan Hoe Soo at 214 Joo Chiat Road, tel: (65) 6344 2761, one of Singapore's signature Peranakan restaurants fusing Malaysian, Indonesian and Chinese cuisine. It's been serving fish-head curry and sotong, or squid, sambal since 1953. Even Lee Kuan Yew is rumored to order takeout from here. With dishes like these on Singapore's menu, eating for two has never been so easy...
...Malaysian officials insist that Abdul Manaf's case is unique and that the armed forces are free of Islamic radicalism. However, a Royal Malaysian Air Force sergeant was arrested on the island of Labuan off Borneo in January for possible involvement with JI. And last year, police arrested former army captain Yazid Sufaat, a biochemistry graduate from a state university in California. Yazid met in January 2000 with two of the 19 hijackers who carried out the 9/11 attacks. All this suggests that terrorism might be more deeply rooted in Malaysia than previously believed...