Gerakan may quit Barisan
Gerakan is reviewing its role in Barisan Nasional, and if it believes it can no longer play a meaningful role within in the ruling coalition, will quit, said the party's acting president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon. Gerakan's grassroots and former leaders have been suing for a more multiracial approach to governance, an issue that came to prominence after an Umno leader allegedly made racist remarks.
Unemployed M. Rajeshvari, 22, carrying her baby Logekali as she walks out of the Lenggeng Immigration depot in Negri Sembilan on Friday evening. She had been detained at the depot for 11 months simply because she did not have her identity card with her and could not recall its number when she was checked by police in Brickfields, Kuala Lumpur. — LOW BOON TAT / The Star
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