Day: April 30, 2010

2,000 cops for Sibu vote

Malaysian Insider KUCHING, April 30 — A total of 2,000 police personnel will be deployed for the Sibu parliamentary by-election next month. Sarawak police commissioner Datuk Mohmad Salleh said today they would be sent there in two batches. “We will send 350 personnel there tomorrow,”

Can BN Woo Chinese Voters in Sibu?

by Syed Zahar (Malaysian Digest) The recent by-election in Hulu Selangor saw an apparent shift of partiality among the Chinese community within the constituency towards the Opposition. In Kuala Kubu Baru itself, there was a six-fold increase of Chinese voters favouring Parti Keadilan Rakyat’s (PKR)