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...coalition and confirms the politician's appeal cuts across race and religion despite his six-year imprisonment and the sodomy charges he is now facing. It also brings the 61-year-old politician a step closer to a more personal goal: becoming the next prime minister. "Next stop is Putra Jaya," Anwar told the wildly cheering supporters, referring to Malaysia's administrative capital that houses the office of current Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi. "This is a victory for the people. And it's great to be back...
...RELEASED. Hutomo Mandala Putra, 44, youngest son of former Indonesian President Suharto, better known as Tommy Suharto; after serving four years of a 10-year sentence for ordering the execution of a judge; in Jakarta. Tommy, a multimillionaire playboy who enjoyed a lavish lifestyle under the patronage of his powerful father, was convicted in 2002 of hiring two hit men to kill judge Syafiuddin Kartasasmita, who had ruled against him in a 2000 graft trial. His early release for good behavior, while the men who carried out the hit are still serving life terms, has prompted criticism that Indonesia...
...SWORN IN. ABDULLAH AHMAD BADAWI, 63, as Malaysia's fifth prime minister; by King Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Syed Putra; at the National Palace in Kuala Lumpur. The Mr. Nice Guy of Malaysian politics, Abdullah succeeds combative predecessor Mahathir Mohamad, 77, who retired after 22 years at the country's helm. Abdullah fell out with Mahathir in 1988 when he joined a group that unsuccessfully challenged the Prime Minister's leadership of the ruling party. In 1991 the rift was healed when Mahathir named him Foreign Minister...
...recently promised that Terengganu's hudud laws would soon be challenged in court, though legal analysts say they expect the government to allow the suit to come from a private individual or group, not from the Attorney General. Says P. Ramasamy, a professor of political science at the Universiti Putra Malaysia: "The government is happy to let somebody else put the suit in the courts and then wait for a ruling...
...defendant's bellyaching, this time, would not get him off. The attorneys for Hutomo Mandala Putra (known as Tommy Suharto) insisted their client's stomach cramps and headache had kept him in his comfortable, air-conditioned cell?outfitted with a television and a stereo system?and away from the Jakarta courtroom where a five-judge panel was set to rule on whether their defendant was guilty of arranging the murder of a judge, fleeing from justice for 12 months, and possessing illegal rifles, handguns, grenades and explosives. Such was the reputation of Tommy, 40, the youngest son of former Indonesian...