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		<title>Malaysia&#8217;s great law pretenders</title>
		<link>http://broadsidemalaysia.wordpress.com/2007/10/08/malaysias-great-law-pretenders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Oct 2007 05:01:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A crisis in the judiciary brings out the ugly side of lawyers There is a saying, &#8220;when elephants fight, the grass is trampled.&#8221; And so it has been for Malaysia&#8217;s disgraced judiciary in the last 20 years. Former premier Mahathir Mohamad in 1988 sacked three senior judges, including his Lord President of the Supreme Court, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=broadsidemalaysia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1520396&amp;post=59&amp;subd=broadsidemalaysia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysian premier&#8217;s grandson doesn&#8217;t have his father&#8217;s name</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2007 03:26:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first-born son of Khairy Jamaluddin, son-in-law of Malaysia&#8217;s premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, doesn&#8217;t carry his father&#8217;s name, according to a report in The Star newspaper today. The full name of the prime minister&#8217;s fifth grandson born on 13 September by caesarean section is Jibreil Ali Jamaluddin Abu Bakar. However, the best-selling Malaysian English language [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=broadsidemalaysia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1520396&amp;post=57&amp;subd=broadsidemalaysia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting for a judicial break</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 11:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know many of you are expecting a story from me on the embattled Malaysian judiciary. I can&#8217;t publish my story yet because I&#8217;m still waiting for a break. At this moment, except for innuendoes, we&#8217;ve no confirmation that Mr V K Lingam, the Malaysian lawyer in private practice, was brokering the appointment of judges with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=broadsidemalaysia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1520396&amp;post=53&amp;subd=broadsidemalaysia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Broadside Malaysia takes a short break</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Sep 2007 23:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Broadside Malaysia is taking a short break. There will not be any post for the next couple of days because I&#8217;ll be away on an assignment. Meanwhile, happy reading!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=broadsidemalaysia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1520396&amp;post=50&amp;subd=broadsidemalaysia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia&#8217;s premier doesn&#8217;t understand cronyism</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2007 00:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Malaysia&#8217;s prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says he doesn&#8217;t know the meaning of &#8220;cronyism&#8220;, according to a report in The Star newspaper today. The newspaper quoted him as saying, “I do not understand the word&#8221; when Abdullah was asked about worries over cronyism in his 13-state Southeast Asian Federation.   Abdullah, who was in Singapore to woo 400 international [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=broadsidemalaysia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1520396&amp;post=48&amp;subd=broadsidemalaysia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia&#8217;s king dragged into riot</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:24:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Malaysia’s king Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin has been dragged into last weekend rioting by 500 opposition party supporters that injured seven people when police broke up an illegal rally in his oil-rich northeastern Terengganu state.   The Star newspaper today quoted Johari Baharum, the Internal Security Deputy Minister, as saying that police had disallowed the rally [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=broadsidemalaysia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1520396&amp;post=46&amp;subd=broadsidemalaysia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A great piece from Joceline Tan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 01:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Credit must be given when credit is due. And I must congratulate the Malaysian Star columnist Joceline Tan (picture) for a great piece, Brace for a swing in votes, in today&#8217;s paper. She has since polished up her English and changed her writing style; and this has made her story very readable. Keep it up, Joceline!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=broadsidemalaysia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1520396&amp;post=45&amp;subd=broadsidemalaysia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A reporter&#8217;s notebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 02:36:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The past weeks have been particularly exciting and colourful in Malaysia. And today is another busy day. The sudden elevation of controversial lawyer Zaki Azmi (picture) to the Federal Court, the nation&#8217;s highest bench, has not only raised eyebrows but caused much unease among the legal fraternity and many Malaysians. I leave you some of my notes: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=broadsidemalaysia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1520396&amp;post=43&amp;subd=broadsidemalaysia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia&#8217;s rulers vs Abdullah:  Who&#8217;s the winner?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that it has become public, the question before 25 million Malaysians is: Who is likely to prevail in a confrontation between Malaysia’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and the 13-state Southeast Asian federation’s nine hereditary rulers over the constitutional role of the king. (See In Malaysia, the king asserts his power)  King Mizan Zainal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=broadsidemalaysia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1520396&amp;post=41&amp;subd=broadsidemalaysia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia&#8217;s rulers openly confront their premier</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2007 01:46:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jonah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A confrontation between Malaysia’s nine hereditary rulers and their Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is now in the open: Raja Nazrin: Monarchy an integral part of nation The Star today carries a Bernama report which says: He (Raja Nazrin) said the Federal Constitution mandates the monarchy to be the guardian of the just rule of law, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=broadsidemalaysia.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1520396&amp;post=40&amp;subd=broadsidemalaysia&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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