SYUKUR alhamdulillah! Sambil melayari internet tentang perkembangan terkini pilihanraya kecil Hulu Selangor, saya terjumpa pula kolum nasihat oleh idola saya, Kak Nora. Ya, Kak Nora sudah kembali beraksi. Tak sangka saya yang Kak Nora akan dipelawa menjadi kolumnis tetamu laman Malaysiabegini.com, setelah disingkirkan daripada TepiKain.com.my. Tapi begitulah resam Kak Nora — diam-diam ubi berisi. Saya […]
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Hulu Selangor’s four-corner fight
By Deborah Loh(Updated at 6:50pm, 17 April 2010) THE Hulu Selangor parliamentary by-election will be a four-corner fight between the Barisan Nasional (BN)’s “compromise candidate” P Kamalanathan, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR)’s Datuk Zaid Ibrahim, and two independents. The pro-reform Zaid, 59, and the MIC’s information chief Kamalanathan, 44, will be the key rivals to watch. But the […]
By-elections and bumiputeraism
By Wong Chin HuatCorrected at 2.59pm, 16 April 2010 WHILE by-elections can hardly be considered referendums, they are nevertheless mid-term elections and often have far-reaching implications. The triple by-elections of April 2009 Remember the triple by-elections of April 2009? What if newly-minted premier Datuk Seri Najib Razak‘s Barisan Nasional (BN) had won all three handsomely? Would he then […]