Students were warned not to attend the event but close to a thousand people turned up.
In a separate interview in Adelaide, Anwar spoke on the prospects and barriers to political opposition in Malaysia, the Allah controversy and the lessons of the Arab Spring.
Incumbents Zahid Hamidi, Shafie Apdal and Hishammuddin Hussein are in the lead in the Umno party elections today for the three posts of vice-president, according to unofficial results cited by Utusan.
Zahid – 185
Shafie – 174
Hisham – 100
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Mukhriz – 91
Isa Samad – 8
Ali Rustam – 7
(1.40am, 20 October – results from 188 out of 191 divisions)
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Final results:
Zahid – 188
Shafie – 177
Hisham – 101
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Mukhriz – 93
Berita Kampus, the USM communications lab newspaper, was temporarily held back yesterday after a farewell profile on highly regarded media lecturer Dr Mustafa K Anuar appeared. For some reason, the School of Communication had a change of heart and released the newspaper yesterday evening just as the news was beginning to spread on social media.
The political gymnastics continue. According to the Borneo Post, Najib has broken his silence over the ‘Allah’ controversy and has declared that the court decision is not applicable to East Malaysia, the region considered to be the “fixed deposit” of the BN.
Over the past few years, many Malaysians have realised what business journal Forbes has now articulated: Malaysia’s economy, complete with high property prices, low interest rates, rising federal government and household indebtedness, shows all the signs of a classic credit and property bubble. When is it going to pop?
This letter by a young woman to the PM outlining the problem of coping with the higher cost of living in urban areas is trending hotly on cyberspace:
The government says it wants to remove subsidies. But what about the subsidies enjoyed by the super-rich corporate elites and their corporations – soft loans, incentives, ever lower corporate tax rates, lop-sided concessions, pioneer status tax breaks, capital allowances, tax deductions, etc?
Hot on the heels of plans for a theme park and golf resort in Batu Kawan, comes another plan for a 40-acre “international-class” “Penang Designer Village” that would include a mall tenanted by “first-tier luxury international brands retailing branded items at discounted prices”.
One thing that many people do not realise is that East Malaysian indigenous and Orang Asli Christians constitute 60 per cent of the church in Malaysia and many of them use Bahasa Malaysia.
This is a CFM statement reacting to the Court of Appeal’s decision to bar the use of the word ‘Allah’ in the Malay-language pullout of the Catholic Herald weekly in Malaysia:
Singapore is bidding to have its 183-acre Botanic Garden listed as a Unesco heritage site. How does our expanded Penang Botanic Garden, 590 acres including surrounding hills, compare to this, considering the damage and neglect it experienced in recent years?