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Anwar complains of police harassment and phantom voters

Former Malaysian deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday complained about police harassment and phantom voters as a key by-election campaign intensified.

 ”Two of my rallies were stopped by the police late Tuesday. They say we need to have a police permit,” he told reporters.

Late Tuesday, at the Tuan Mee palm oil estate, just south of Ijok, police told Anwar’s supporters that the rally was illegal. Anwar cut short his speech, saying he did not want to court trouble with the police.

 ”This is an election. You do not need a permit,” he said.

 The former deputy premier also expressed concern about phantom voters.

 ”Beware of phantom voters. Thirty-one of the some 12,000 voters are aged 100 and above. This is a world record. There is also a voter aged eight years-old,” he said. Malaysians can vote if they are 21-years and above,” he said.

 Anwar said party officials had complained to the Election Commission.

 ”I think the National Front is worried they may lose. So the authorities are getting tough. Right now, if the elections are conducted fairly, we will win,” he said.

Source: The Nation

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Khir Toyo: Difficult to implement development in Ijok if BN loses

Dr Mohamad Khir also said that it was difficult to implement development in a constituency where the elected representative was not from the BN.
“If the elected representative is not aligned to us (BN), it is difficult for us to implement development. The matter is similar to that in Kelantan where PAS is in power; the BN elected representatives who are in the opposition there have difficulty obtaining financial allocations.
“In Selangor, the BN is in power. (Therefore) development will be implemented according to our rules,” he said.
As such, he said, the Ijok voters had to elect the candidate who could bring development to their area.

Source: The Star

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Khir Toyo says BN does not stoop so low

Counterfeit RM100 notes with congratulatory letters purportedly sent from a college in Petaling Jaya have been mailed to 290 homes here, urging the recipients to vote for the Barisan Nasional. 

The letters congratulated the recipients, saying that the cash was a “consolation prize” offered to them by the Barisan. 

Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, who read out one of the letters, described it as a dirty tactic to get the people to turn against the ruling coalition. 

“We in the Barisan Nasional do not stoop (so low), “ he told a press conference here.

Source: The Star  

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Badawi says BN does not believe in raising racial issues

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has said he is confident that the voters here will not be influenced by racial issues raised by opposition parties in their bid to garner support. 

“The people understand that racial issues have no meaning or benefit for the people and country. That is why the Barisan Nasional coalition has always stressed on co-operation (among the races),” he said. 

Source: The Star

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Najib says he acted in the interest of Chinese community

  Najib also said Parti Keadilan Rakyat advisor Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had no grounds to claim he acted in the interest of the Chinese community as he had failed to do so when he was education minister. 

He said that when Anwar was education minister, he (Anwar) refused to abolish Section 21 (1B) of the Education Act 1991, which empowered the minister to shut down vernacular schools, despite repeated calls to do so by the Chinese community. 

”It was only when I was Education Minister in 1995 that the two Barisan Nasional component parties brought it to my attention and I tabled an amendment to have the clause abolished,” he said.  

Source: The Star

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King: every Malaysian’s rights are enshrined in the Federal Constitution

“We must maintain this precious unity to the best of our ability.  

“To co-exist requires us to understand, respect and be tolerant with one another,” he said at his installation ceremony as the 13th Yang di-Pertuan Agong at Istana Negara yesterday. 

He said the rights of every Malaysian was enshrined in the Federal Constitution and hence, they should be given fair and equal opportunities. 

Source: The Star

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MCA, MIC are toadies of UMNO

Opposition figure Anwar Ibrahim has accused Malaysia’s ethnic Chinese and Indian leaders of being toadies of the ruling Malay party, and urged voters to support his wife’s reformist party in a closely-watched by-election.

In a series of speeches late Tuesday, Anwar also railed against government corruption and renewed a call for scrapping the decades-old affirmative action program for the majority Malays.

“The ministers … they steal from the poor. The ministers and their children are all rich but the villagers remain poor,” he told a crowd of 400, mostly Chinese residents, in Ijok town where his wife’s People’s Justice Party candidate is pitted against the ruling National Front in Saturday’s by-election.

The National Front coalition is dominated by the United Malays National Organization, which represents the Malays, while the other two major components in the coalition represent Malaysia’s Chinese and Indian minorities.

But the minorities have often complained that the Malaysian Chinese Association and the Malaysian Indian Congress do not stand up for their religious and social rights.

Anwar said MCA and MIC leaders cannot fight for minority rights because they kowtow to UMNO.

“Whatever UMNO says, the MCA will do,” he said. “I know. I have been in the government before,” said the former deputy prime minister, adding that the MIC’s leaders were the same. The National Front candidate in the Ijok by-election is from the MIC party.

“We must change the government, change the policies, so that we can have a better country and justice for all,” he said to loud cheers from the crowd.

Malaysia’s ethnic minorities feel that they are discriminated against by the affirmative action program, known as the New Economic Policy, which gives privileges to Malays in jobs, education and business.

“The Chinese feel they are second-class and Indians are even worse off. We must reject the NEP, change the policy,” said Anwar.

Source: International Herald Tribune

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Selangor highest crime rate

 A total of 198,622 violent crimes and crimes involving property were reported last year throughout the country, and Selangor recorded the highest number among states, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said today.

He said statistics issued by the Bukit Aman police headquarters showed that the total number of cases last year was a big jump from the 157,459 cases in 2005 and 156,455 in 2004.

Source: New Straits Times

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Indah Water Konsortium biggest polluter

Sewage management company Indah Water Konsortium Sdn Bhd (IWK) is the main polluter of rivers in Peninsular Malaysia. 

Describing the situation as “very bad,” Natural Resources and Environment Minister Datuk Seri Azmi Khalid said that IWK had not done its job anywhere it operated. 

“Ninety one percent of pollution of rivers in the country is from inadequately-treated sewage,” he said. 

Source: The Star