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Reading the papers on April 23 must have sent a chill through Malaysian Finance Minister Daim Zainuddin. His boss and friend of 20 years, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, had given a speech in which he said that "abundantly rich" members of the ruling United Malays National Organization should be barred from holding important posts in the party. Daim, who has been in the party's top echelon for 20 years, just happens to be one of the country's wealthiest individuals. Coming at a time when relations between the two men were already strained, it must have made...
...government has staunchly defended police conduct, although Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi?who is also Home Minister and responsible for supervising the force?has acknowledged that the police have a p.r. problem. Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has gone on the offensive. In parliament last week, he warned that his government was willing to break with "so-called international norms" to preserve peace...
...CHARGED. MOHAMAD EZAM MOHAMAD NOR, 34, youth leader of the Malaysian opposition National Justice Party, with sedition over his reported call in a newspaper interview for mass protests to topple the government; in Kuala Lumpur. Mohamad Ezam accused the government of using smear tactics against him and said that he was misquoted by the Mingguan Malaysia newspaper, to which he had spoken only of peaceful planned protests...
CONVICTED. ANWAR IBRAHIM, 53, Malaysia's deposed Deputy Prime Minister, arrested after challenging his mentor, Mahathir Mohamad, who has ruled for 19 years; of sodomy; and sentenced to nine years in prison; in Kuala Lumpur. Human-rights groups condemned the 14-month trial, in which prosecutors changed the date of the alleged crime twice after alibis were produced...
...Petronas Towers, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (1,476 ft.). Peaked like Angkor Wat, the world's tallest building attests to the ambitions of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad...