What Lies Ahead for Malaysia’s Governing Coalition?   
   

US pollsters call it the Big Mo — momentum — and, on the surface at least, right now it appears as though Malaysia’s governing Barisan Nasional has it. On Sunday it won two by-elections in Merlimau and Kerdau, not only by comfortable margins but with substantial increases to its majority in both cases.                        (The Jakarta Globe)

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