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		<title>Public confidence and the trial of Anwar Ibrahim</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2010/02/05/anwar-trial/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Certain features of the trial of Dato’ Sri Anwar Ibrahim pose a serious challenge to public confidence in the government. Public confidence is essential to the basic functioning of government.
1)   The trial is being conducted in an overwhelmingly politicized environment. Part of its context is the earlier trial of Anwar on the same [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1156&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Oil Forum in Kota Bharu</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2010/01/28/oil-forum-in-kota-bharu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:40:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Note: you can view this speech on my youtube channel)
At 9pm tonight, I will be addressing the people of Kelantan at the Stadium Sultan Muhamad Ke IV, on the oil royalties that are their sovereign right.
I  have written on this issue before.
http://razaleigh.com/2009/11/28/oil-payments/
http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/31/letter-to-mb-of-kelantan-on-oil-royalties/
The larger issue is State rights. Malaysia is a Federation of sovereign states. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1136&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Malaysia&#8217;s regime crisis, race politics and the kalimah Allah issue*</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2010/01/07/malaysias-regime-crisis-race-politics-and-the-kalimah-allah-issue/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2010/01/07/malaysias-regime-crisis-race-politics-and-the-kalimah-allah-issue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 03:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>razaleighhamzah</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The centre of gravity of global economic activity has been moving eastwards towards Asia for quite some time now. The present global financial crisis has accelerated that process.
Asian economies, led by China, seek to spur domestic demand and increase intra-regional trade. As the global appetite for treasuries and US equities decreases, it is likely that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1127&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>a blessing become a curse</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/12/12/a-blessing-become-a-curse/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/12/12/a-blessing-become-a-curse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:45:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[*In a speech I made in January this year I spoke of where we stand in our developmental path and what I felt we must do to move forward.
Revisiting the middle income trap
I would like to revisit the argument of that speech to develop it further.
We are stagnating. The signs of a low growth economy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1105&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Human Rights and Good Government</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/12/11/1099/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/12/11/1099/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 13:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HUMAN RIGHTS DAY*
December 10 marks the 61st Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights “in recognition of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family”
Proclaimed at the end of war that had witnessed “barbarous acts which have outraged the conscience of mankind”, it recognized that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1099&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>honouring our agreements</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/11/28/oil-payments/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/11/28/oil-payments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 03:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Petronas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://razaleigh.com/?p=1080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Government has now responded to Kelantan&#8217;s claim to a portion of the profits derived from petroleum resources extracted offshore by PETRONAS.
Its response violates the letter and the intent of a solemn agreement signed between each State Government and PETRONAS under the Petroleum Development Act.
That agreement is made out in language simple enough for a schoolboy to understand, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1080&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>The infrastructure of institutions*</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/11/01/the-infrastructure-of-institutions/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/11/01/the-infrastructure-of-institutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are some good things about our country which we do not acknowledge either because are too obvious or because it is politically incorrect to do so. One of these is the role played by British institutions in our country.
The Federation of Malaya and later Malaysia did not emerge from the colonial era through violent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1062&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>too old for my own good</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/10/19/too-old-for-my-own-good/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/10/19/too-old-for-my-own-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How kind of The Star to editorialise some words their reporter overheard while I was speaking to a Singapore news channel into a sweet little retirement story for me, complete with a helpful coda about my retiring into harmless &#8220;constructive&#8221; political commentary.
I am sorry to disappoint these aspiring scriptwriters but news of my departure is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1057&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>A Constitution of Consensus*</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/10/16/constitution-of-consensus/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/10/16/constitution-of-consensus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am honoured that you have asked me to address you today. I am not a scholar. All I can offer today are the personal views of a Malaysian who has seen a little of the history of this marvelous country, and tried to play my part in it.
I say a marvelous country, because Malaysia, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1044&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>on the proposed amendments to the Umno Constitution*</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/10/14/proposed-amendments-to-the-umno-constitution/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/10/14/proposed-amendments-to-the-umno-constitution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>razaleighhamzah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are five proposals for the reform of the Umno Constitution that I have advocated for some time now:


The president, deputy president, vice presidents and members of the supreme council  to be elected directly.  This ends the delegate system.
State party chiefs to be elected by the membership at state level, not appointed by the president.
The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1019&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>Better to lose the battle</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/10/11/better-to-lose-the-battle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 03:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much as the likely win by Tan Sri Isa Samad in Bagan Pinang today would be welcomed by the leadership after the string of losses Umno has suffered, I am afraid what the nation needs is for Umno to lose again. This is because again we have fielded a candidate proven to be corrupt.
A win [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1012&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>on the MCA EGM</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/10/11/on-the-mca-egm/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/10/11/on-the-mca-egm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://razaleigh.com/?p=1008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[MCA is now without leadership. Both the President and Deputy President of MCA have been rejected by delegates at their EGM.

This has a bearing on the government of the day. Those members  of the cabinet from MCA are there by virtue of being appointed by the PM from a list submitted by the President of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=1008&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a choice of candidate</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/09/18/whats-in-a-choice-of-candidate/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/09/18/whats-in-a-choice-of-candidate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 04:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://razaleigh.com/?p=997</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For the eighth time since the last General Elections, we face a by-election. The Opposition has now won seven by-elections in a row in peninsular Malaysia.  Umno has contested six and lost all six. By now no one can doubt that the public dissatisfaction with BN that led to the loss of five states and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=997&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
	
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		<title>a different set of rules</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/08/19/a-different-set-of-rules/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/08/19/a-different-set-of-rules/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know En. Rohaizat. He may be a fine upstanding citizen. However, his public record of dishonesty would long ago have disqualified him from being a candidate for public office in any normal political party.
Is Umno so short of people that we have to find a lawyer disbarred for financial dishonesty to stand? Has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=989&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Race: Time for a new beginning</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/08/10/race-time-for-a-new-beginning/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/08/10/race-time-for-a-new-beginning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 18:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you for inviting me to speak at this event.
 Distance, home and reflection
1)	The opportunity to study abroad is a gift. I remember my days as a student in Belfast so long ago. Now as then, overseas study gives us the chance to be educated at some of the finest, best established institutions of higher [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=978&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letter to MB of Kelantan on oil royalties</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/31/letter-to-mb-of-kelantan-on-oil-royalties/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Menteri Besar of Kelantan wrote me on July 15 seeking my view on the Kelantan State Government&#8217;s claim for oil royalties from PETRONAS.
Below is my answer, which was hand-delivered to the Menteri Besar this morning.
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TRH/U/Phb/Kel/18 Bh.9
30hb Julai, 2009.
8hb Sya’ban, 1430.
Y.A.B.  Tuan Guru Dato’ Haji Nik Abdul Aziz bin Nik Mat,
Menteri Besar Kelantan,
Pejabat Menteri Besar,
Blok [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=965&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>on the Fairly Current Show</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/22/on-the-fairly-current-show/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Fahmi Fadzil, Hardesh Singh and Mark Teh of  popTV came by on Tuesday (July 21). I talked about the Facebook generation in my last speech, they said, so here they were!
I was very impressed by these men. On little more than borrowed equipment and pure dedication, they have crafted  an online tv channel to public [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=956&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Witnesses shouldn&#8217;t end up in coffins</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/22/witnesses-shouldnt-end-up-in-coffins/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/22/witnesses-shouldnt-end-up-in-coffins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:17:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is the report of part of an interview I gave yesterday. Thank you to all my readers for your comments, which encourage and instruct me. You have pointed out things to me and argued your points with eloquence and passion. I value this discussion and think about everything you say.
 
Ku Li slams MACC, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=947&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Please discuss</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/22/discuss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr Teoh Beng Hock&#8217;s death marks a watershed in the attitude of the public towards their government. The government has plumbed a new low in loss of credibility. Many people have come up to tell me in anger or despair that they feel their country has gone off the rails. People who previously considered themselves [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=923&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Datuk Zaid&#8217;s invitation</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/22/datuk-zaids-invitation/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/22/datuk-zaids-invitation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[please check the Malaysian Insider today for my response to Datuk Zaid Ibrahim&#8217;s invitation that I join PKR.
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		<title>Death at MACC headquarters</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/17/death-at-macc/</link>
		<comments>http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/17/death-at-macc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all Malaysians I am shocked and deeply dismayed at the death of Teoh Beng Huat, political secretary to a member of the Selangor state executive councillor, at the headquarters of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission in Shah Alam.
The  circumstances surrounding Mr Teoh&#8217;s death put the credibility of the government and our investigative and law enforcement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=909&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>extensions becoming routine</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/14/routine-extensions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of late there has been a tendency for the Government to routinely extend the service of top civil servants due for retirement.
This creates cults of personality in a serviced that is supposed to be distinguished by impersonal professionalism and objectivity.
This politicizes the leadership of a service that is supposed to promote by its own independent [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=899&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The NEP is over. We need a New Deal</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/07/11/new-deal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.    Thank you for inviting me to address you. It’s a pleasure to be here, and to learn from you. You have asked me to talk about Najib’s  First 100 Days, and this lecture is in a series called Straight Talk. I shall indeed speak plainly and directly.
2.    Let me begin by disappointing you. I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=884&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Petronas governance, oil and talent</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/06/29/petronas-governance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:41:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[JUNE 29 —There are reports of a supposed tussle of wills between the Prime Minister and the Board of Petronas over his choice of a non-executive, independent director for the Board. I find the way this discussion is being framed in the press and on the blogs a little puzzling.
To begin with, the question of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=874&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What is at stake in the Perak crisis</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/05/12/perak-crisis-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 12:38:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Perak crisis is a tragic comedy of errors and bad political judgment that reflects a failure of political leadership. As it continues to spin out of control, it damages our democratic system of governance. To all intents and purposes, one of our most prosperous and developed states has been reduced to a failed state, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=868&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>dissolve the Perak state assembly</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/05/11/dissolve-the-perak-state-assembly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 03:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Feb 7, I wrote that a shameful scene was unfolding in Perak and maintained that despite the &#8220;takeover&#8221; of the state government by Barisan,
according to the Constitution, Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin is Menteri Besar until he resigns of his own accord, or is removed by a vote of no-confidence in a formal sitting of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=859&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>press conference</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/04/11/press-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:02:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the new government in such desperate need of endorsement that Bernama has to manufacture it ?
Bernama quoted me today as  hailing the new cabinet and saying it &#8220;could solve the country&#8217;s economic problems.&#8221; This is a laughable misrepresentation of what I said, and a poor indication of the more open and truthful information [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=853&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We should all come clean</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/03/25/come-clean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:30:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I gave an interview to Sarah Stewart, the Bureau Chief of AFP in Malaysia. Among the questions she asked me was the unavoidable question about the international scandal linking Dato’ Seri Najib Razak with the murder of Altantuya Sharibuu and with the purchase of the Scorpene submarines.
I told Sarah that in my long experience [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=831&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How a new government is formed</title>
		<link>http://razaleigh.com/2009/03/23/how-a-new-government-is-formed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent interview I was quoted as saying that the Yang di-Pertuan Agong could appoint someone other than the man nominated by the party. The fact that this was reported as “news” shows how far we as a country have drifted from the principles set out in our Constitution.
Let us understand very clearly the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=818&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Basic principles relevant to the actions of the disciplinary board</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:53:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1) Eligibility to hold office is a right of membership
The disciplinary board barred Dato&#8217; Seri Mohd Ali Rustam from elections without suspending him from the Party. However I do not see how they may bar him from contesting so long as he remains a member of the Party. The Societies Act defines the &#8220;eligibility to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=razaleigh.com&blog=4880338&post=793&subd=tengkurazaleigh&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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