Anwar, Ibrahim
(b. 1948), Malaysian politician. Ibrahim Anwar is the popular former Malaysian deputy premier who was ousted in 1998. Born in 1948 in Penang, Anwar was a youth leader and vocal critic o...
Read more
(EDS: UPDATING, RECASTING)
Former Malaysian Deputy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim will defy a
government ban on him participating in his party leadership election
scheduled for Saturday, pa...
Read more
----------
Nagasaki Mayor Ito dies after being shot by gangster
NAGASAKI - Nagasaki Mayor Itcho Ito, 61, died of blood loss
early Wednesday after being shot Tuesday evening by a gangster wh...
Read more
A top Malaysian dissident said Monday he will return to politics despite a ban against him seeking office until 2008, saying he did not want to submit to a "corrupt judicial system."Anwar Ibrahim, ...
Read more
----------
Koike succeeds Kyuma, becomes 1st female Japanese defense minister
TOKYO - Yuriko Koike became Japan's defense minister at an
imperial attestation ceremony Wednesday afternoon, s...
Read more
Malaysian politician Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday lost his bid to take former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad to court for calling him a homosexual, an accusation that landed Anwar in jail for six ye...
Read more
Kuala Lumpur (dpa) - A group of about 1,000 Malaysian lawyers and
rights activists gathered Wednesday at the administrative capital of
Putrajaya to call for top-level probes...
Read more
A Malaysian political activist who claimed he was tortured in police custody won 2.5 million ringgit (US$740,000; euro520,000) in damages from the government Thursday in a landmark court verdict, l...
Read more
KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Malaysian police stepped
up security in the capital on Saturday, effectively shutting
down the city centre to try to foil a banned opposition rally
demanding chang...
Read more
Police fired tear gas Saturday to disperse thousands of activists demanding electoral reforms in Malaysia's biggest anti-government street protests in nearly a decade. Some 245 people were detained...
Read more
Anwar, Ibrahim
LEAD: Malaysia's Anwar to defy gov't ban against seeking office
