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Mahathir stirring racial mischief in Malaysia

Despite being a notch below 100 years old, Malaysia’s former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad remains active in politics.  Mahathir, a lifetime champion of Malay rights, was in frequent conflict with the Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) throughout much of his first tenure as prime minister from 1981 to 2003. Against this historical backdrop, the rapprochement between […]

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