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My “disgusting” coverage: Blogger crackdown looms?

Oh dear, I guess you can’t please everyone.
“BN Partyman” sent in this comment, which contains a none-too-subtle threat.

Dear Anil,
Your biased live coverage of the PP buy-election was disgusting to say the least. It seemed like the Barisan Nasional was non-existent in PP. The fact that more than 15,000 people voted for Arif Shah is [...]

It’s 81 per cent turnout, not 65 per cent

A group of kampong boys in Penanti near the tallying centre caught up in election fever after the results were announced
As some of you have pointed out, there is a discrepancy between the Election Commission’s figure for the voter turnout of 65 per cent turnout and the actual turnout, which was 81 per cent. This [...]

Polling Day: LIVE reports from Ground Zero

Hope for the future: The next generation celebrates an Anwar and Reformasi victory in a kampong in Penanti earlier this evening

Send in your “citizen journalist” eye-witness reports from Permatang Pauh as it goes to the polls. Others share with us your thoughts on polling day.
All eyes in Malaysia and beyond are trained on this constituency [...]

Eve of polling: LIVE reports from Ground Zero

The Last Ceramah: Close to 60,000 people turned up for the big one. This was the scene at around 9.45pm on a wet night. Now you know why I turned back!

0020: Huge traffic jams after the ceramah ends. The revised estimate for the size of the crowd is between 50,000 and 60,000, according to my [...]

Eve of polling: Hopes of a nation… your thoughts

Here’s where you get to share your comments - your thoughts, hopes and prayers, your reflections, poems and aspirations - with other Malaysians and with the world on the eve of polling.
Share with us what you think - who you think is likely to win, what it means for the people, the government and the [...]