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By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani from The Malaysian Insider PETALING JAYA, Aug 7 — A week after a mammoth anti-Internal Security Act (ISA) rally in Kuala Lumpur, results of a two-day old Home Ministry online poll shows that 91 per cent of 8,722 respondents want the security law abolished. The rest want a review of the ISA which... 

From The Asian Sentinel The political aspirations of Malaysia’s ethnic minorities are rising uncomfortably, threatening the country’s delicate racial balance, analysts in Kuala Lumpur say. The minority communities’ political discontent over 40 years of entitlement programs given to ethnic Malays helped fuel the results... 

Remarks about Burma by Singapore’s Foreign Minister George Yeo have raised eyebrows in Burmese exile circles. In an interview with Singapore’s Online Citizen, Yeo made several incorrect statements about Burma, leading to questions about the depth of his knowledge of the country. In the most blatant of the errors, Yeo...