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...years ago, when Anwar was Malaysia's Deputy Prime Minister and a star in the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), the dominant political party in the ruling National Front coalition, he launched a challenge against the long rule of former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. In short order, Anwar was sacked and charged with sodomy and abuse of power. Although the sex charge was overturned in 2004, the man once presumed to become Malaysia's next Prime Minister languished in prison for six years...
...succeeds, the 60-year-old former Muslim youth 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's Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says there is no link between the sodomy investigation and Anwar's political comeback. But there's no question Abdullah's government is increasingly under fire. In recent weeks, cuts in fuel subsidies have sent usually quiescent Malaysians to the streets in protest. More citizens are criticizing the government's race-based affirmative-action system, which gives Malays privileges in everything from university places to government contracts. (Anwar has promised to reform the system should he come to power.) The ruling alliance has lost its usual cohesion. At one point in mid-June...
...Pakistanis privately say they will tolerate a U.S. incursion if it is directed specifically against bin Laden or al-Zawahiri--but nobody else. A senior Pakistani official tells TIME that this will be the message Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani delivers to President Bush when they meet in Washington at the end of July. "If they do a raid and they find No. 3 or No. 4 or No. 5 but don't get bin Laden, it's going to be a real problem," says the official. Risking Pakistan instability, however, may be the only way for the President...
...from advanced nuclear reactors to clean steel mills to hybrid cars. And Japan has every incentive to sell that technology to generate new business for its otherwise sluggish economy. That's why the environment was a prominent topic of discussion when China's President Hu Jintao and Japan's Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda met in Tokyo...