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Deja vu: Empty stadium or full house at PAP rally?

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Singapore holds a much-watched by-election tomorrow for the Hougang seat, a Workers Party stronghold. In the 2011 general election, the Workers’ Party polled 64.8 per cent of the votes to win by a 6787-vote majority. And the contrasting turnouts at the PAP and Workers Party rallies this time around have been telling.

Does this look familiar? The first video below (loaded by The New Paper) is of a PAP rally on 20 May and the second is by someone else from a different angle. The difference lies in the camera angle and perspective.

From a different perspective:

And this was the huge crowd at the final Workers’ Party rally last night:

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Senior citizen injured as stones, eggs hurled at PKR ceramah

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Stone and eggs were thrown at a PKR ceramah near flats in Lembah Pantai last night and one senior citizen, a PKR supporter, was injured.

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Updates: Anti-Bersih groups turn up at Ambiga’s place

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Bersih Steering Committee members and other activists gathered at Ambiga’s home in a show of solidarity while anti-Bersih groups later delivered statements at her residence (see updates below).

Face-to-face: Pak Samad eyes the Lamborghini-loving 'petty trader' outside Ambiga's front gate
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Pak Samad, Marina Mahathir slam anti-Ambiga ‘threats’, ‘abuse’

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Pak Samad and Marina Mahathir have both condemned the recent ‘outbreaks’ of crude forms of protest action directed at Ambiga and Bersih.

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Patrick Teoh interviews Ambiga

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Today is the day that ‘petty traders’ had planned to set up shop outside Ambiga’s house, but let’s hear from the woman herself who is interviewed by The Voice.

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Government sues Ambiga, Bersih committee

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The government of Prime Minister Najib, who says he wants to make Malaysia the world’s best democracy, is reportedly suing Ambiga and the Bersih steering committee in connection with Bersih 3.0.

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Khairy-Rafizi debate on PTPTN study loans

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Umno’s Khairy Jamaluddin argues that PKR’s plan to abolish study loans could lead the nation to bankruptcy while PKR’s Rafizi insists that free higher education is financially sustainable.

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The ‘Petty Trader’, ‘his Ferrari’ and Umno (updated)

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Update (22 May 2012): Hello, hello, turns out that our expensive cars ‘petty trader’ is reportedly an Umno member, who is believed to be close to a Cabinet Minister (see this FMT report). Just as I thought.

21 May 2012: The so-called Kuala Lumpur Petty Traders Action Council, representing 60 traders, is organising an anti-Bersih bazaar outside Ambiga’s house. The group’s leader is pictured leaning against ‘his Ferrari’ (according to Utusan) – or is that a Lamborghini? (I’m hopeless with cars.) Some petty trader.

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Jamal Md Yunos with 'his Ferrari' - Photograph: Utusan
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Hecklers harass memorial for starved-to-death Cambodian worker

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A memorial vigil for Mey Sichan, a Cambodian domestic worker found starved to death, was harassed by a few hecklers at Speakers’ Square in Penang yesterday evening.

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Ambiga faces more harassment; Anwar, Azmin to be charged

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Ambiga continues to faces more harassment. This was painted on the road in front of her house.

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