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By Assif Shameen
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Thursday, 01 May 2008 15:54 |
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 From outcast to change leader, Anwar Ibrahim is leading the move to reshape Malaysian politics and society
A SMALL nondescript old suburban Petaling Jaya house in a sleepy side street outside Kuala Lumpur now serves as the headquarters of Anwar Ibrahim, who is now officially described by many as Malaysia’s Prime Minister-in-waiting. There are no signboards. Just a long queue of cars parked outside the small house which hints there is a buzz of activity inside. The house was once home to one of Anwar’s key lieutenants, Selangor Chief Minister Khalid Ibrahim. When Anwar was first released from prison three years ago, the search for a small office turned up nothing as owners would walk away from renting him office space, often at the last minute. In the end, Khalid offered his old vacant house as an office. |
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By Sharaad Kuttan & Jason Tan
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Saturday, 01 March 2008 13:56 |
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 A high public profile in belligerent times makes Zeinab Badawi a default role model of Muslim womanhood. The BBC television and radio reporter and news presenter on her first visit to Malaysia gets interviewed
IF RADIO needs a voice in extraordinarily multi-mediated times, TV has to find a face. In Zeinab Badawi it finds an uncommon mix of charm and authority as well as a sign of its globalised future. Modern, multicultural and confident, this Arab-speaking British citizen of Sudanese descent helps give the BBC World Service its cachet as one of the top three media companies of the Anglophone world. |
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