This is an article I completed today for Asia Times Online. The BN finds itself on the political defensive after police personnel cracked down on a largely peaceful 28 April protest held in Kuala Lumpur calling for electoral reforms.
May 022012
This is an article I completed today for Asia Times Online. The BN finds itself on the political defensive after police personnel cracked down on a largely peaceful 28 April protest held in Kuala Lumpur calling for electoral reforms.
Images of police brutality, reported far and wide, are portraying the Najib administration in a poor light, while the huge crowds at the rally would be enough to worry the PM.
Some familiar faces at Penang Bersih 3.0
A seven-member international fact-finding mission on elections presents its preliminary findings on the electoral process in Malaysia and the Bersih 3.0 rally.
Aliran hosted a high-tea in Penang at which Bersih 2.0 co-chairperson Pak Samad Said and other Bersih Steering Committee members addressed a crowd of 500 at a hotel in Penang yesterday.