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From South China Morning Post The Sri Lankan military's defeat of Tamil separatist rebels in May ended 26 years of suffering by civilians, handing the government a golden opportunity. Policies dedicated to addressing the grievances of minority communities would give the nation a fresh start. Elections in the war-ravaged Jaffna... 

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...