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		<title>Malaysia tackles national woes with advertising campaign</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Malaysia&#8217;s reputation as a moderate, progressive Muslim nation has been sullied by a string of embarrassing news stories involving church burnings, pig heads dumped in mosques, Muslim girls caned for premarital sex and an interminable sodomy trial of a senior political figure. The government&#8217;s response? &#8220;Rebrand&#8221; Malaysia. Hoping to unite the nation of 27 million [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taib Must Go Facebook Page Buzzing After Taib &#8216;Testing Water&#8217; Statement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Taib Must Go” accronym “TMG” facebook was created on Aug 25, 2010 in response to Taib statement on Utusan Borneo on the same date. Within a few days, more than 1,600 &#8216;LIKES&#8217; and counting! Over the week since Taib’s announcement, there was a stark silence and only after a few days, Borneopost came out with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bintulu.org/news/2010/09/04/taib-must-go-facebook-page-buzzing-after-taib-testing-water-statement.php</link>
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		<title>Sarawak Timber Giant Samling At The Epicentre of US Subprime Crash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sarawak logging giant, Samling closely linked to Taib Mahmud, was at the heart of the housing bubble that led to the sub-prime mortgage crisis and the world economic crash, according to latest Sarawak Report report.]]></description>
		<link>http://sarawakreport.org/2010/09/samling-at-epicentre-of-sub-prime-crash/</link>
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		<title>Malaysia Govt Formed Task Force To Monitor Internet, &#8216;Harmful Blogs&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysia has formed a task force to scour the Internet for blog postings deemed harmful to national unity, authorities said on Friday in the latest of a series of actions against new media. Home ministry deputy secretary general for security Abdul Rahim Mohamad Radzi said the unit would involve the police, Internet [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bintulu.org/news/2010/09/03/malaysia-govt-formed-task-force-to-monitor-internet-harmful-blogs.php</link>
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		<title>Malaysian blogger &#8216;Hassan Skodeng&#8217; face jail term over Tenaga Nasional joke</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Malaysian journalist was charged Thursday over a satirical blog which made fun of the state power firm Tenaga, and faces a year&#8217;s jail if convicted. State media said that Irwan Abdul Rahman, a 36-year-old sub-editor with a Malay-language daily, pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court to a charge of posting a fictitious comment. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bintulu.org/news/2010/09/03/malaysian-blogger-hassan-skodeng-face-jail-over-tnb-joke.php</link>
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		<title>Malaysia Now Has 11.4 Million Voters, 2.2 Million Eligible Voters Yet To Registers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PUTRAJAYA &#8212; The country now has 11,381,193 voters after the latest supplementary electoral roll, which contains 191,970 names, was gazetted, the Election Commission (EC) said. Its registration panel chairman Datuk Zainal Abidin Mat Said said the EC had struck off 58,303 names in the latest roll including the names of those who had died. Meanwhile, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bintulu.org/news/2010/09/01/malaysia-now-has-11-4-million-voters-2-2-million-eligible-voters-yet-to-registers.php</link>
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		<title>IGP Musa Hassan To Be Succeeded by Deputy Ismail Omar Beginning Sept 13</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deputy Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Ismail Omar will succeed Tan Sri Musa Hassan as the IGP on Sept 13. More to come &#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bintulu.org/news/2010/09/01/igp-musa-hassan-to-be-succeeded-by-deputy-ismail-omar-beginning-sept-13.php</link>
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		<title>Selangor Sultan Stripped Dr Ling, OC Phang Of Titles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SHAH ALAM &#8212; Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah has suspended the titles &#8220;Datuk&#8221; and &#8220;Datin Paduka&#8221; conferred respectively on former transport minister Tun Dr Ling Liong Sik and former Port Klang Authority general manager O.C. Phang. State Secretary Datuk Ramli Mahmud said in a statement that the sultan made the order in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bintulu.org/news/2010/09/01/selangor-sultan-stripped-dr-ling-oc-phang-of-titles.php</link>
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		<title>State Election Not Carnival, Popularity Contest Taib Reminded Sarawakians</title>
		<description><![CDATA[MIRI &#8212; The people of Sarawak should not treat the coming state election as a carnival nor a platform to gauge one&#8217;s popularity, said the Chief Minister, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, on Tuesday. He said any decision made by the people during the election would decide the state&#8217;s future direction. The election was not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bintulu.org/news/2010/08/31/state-election-not-carnival-popularity-contest-taib-reminded-sarawakians.php</link>
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		<title>No Action Against Senior Lecturer Over Taib&#8217;s Comment &#8211; Unimas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[KUCHING &#8212; Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas) will not take any action against its senior lecturer Dr Jeniri Amir for commenting on Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud&#8217;s political future as it was his personal opinion. Its vice-chancellor, Professor Dr Khairuddin Abdul Hamid, said the university would not prevent any of its academic staff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.bintulu.org/news/2010/08/31/unimas-wouldnt-take-action-against-senior-lecturer-over-taibs-comment.php</link>
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