Status quo at the Aug 12 state elections poses no danger to Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at the parliamentary level, but it will feed tensions in the federal-state relationship, says CNA’s Leslie Lopez.
Malaysia s conservative Muslim opposition is confident of making gains against Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim s government in upcoming regional polls, as it woos more of the country s majority.
KUALA LUMPUR, July 27 Malaysia’s conservative Muslim opposition is confident of making gains against Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim’s government in upcoming regional polls,.
CSIS Indonesia, this year’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) chair, held a flurry of ministerial meetings earlier this month. From July 11-12, it hosted the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Jakarta. Timor Leste, which became an ASEAN observer state last year, sent a delegation for the first time. Chief among the ministers’ conversation topics was the ongoing civil…