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	Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party is a political party in Malaysia.
		The party is one of the constituent members of the ruling National Front (Barisan Nasional).
		The party was founded in the wake of the de-registration of the Sarawak National Party in November 2002 by a faction aligned to the Chief Minister of Sarawak, Abdul Taib Mahmud, led by Dr. Judson Tagal.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarawak_Progressive_Democratic_Party (122 words)

	Sarawak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Sarawak is one of the two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo.
		Sarawak had been a loosely governed territory under the control of the Brunei Sultanate in the early 19th century.
		Sarawak Alumni of the University of Adelaide (SAUA) Foster fellowship, goodwill and co-operation between Australian graduates in Sarawak.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Sarawak.html (635 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Barisan_Nasional (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Formed in 1973 as the successor of the Alliance (Parti Perikatan), it has ruled Malaysia uninterrupted (its term as the Alliance included) since independence.
		In 2005, the issue of voting on party lines was brought up when two BN Members of Parliament (MPs), Bung Moktar Radin and Mohamed Aziz, supported a motion by Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang of the Democratic Action Party (DAP) to refer International Trade and Industry Ministry secretary Sidek Hassan to the Committee of Privileges.
		Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is also the BN whip in the Dewan Rakyat (lower house of Parliament) had the two MPs referred to the Cabinet for breaking the BN policy of never voting for motions proposed by the opposition.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Barisan_Nasional (193 words)

	State News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Earlier SPDP President Datuk William Mawan said although SPDP was multi-racial by definition, it was essentially a rural-based party with a large Dayak base and mindful of their problems and aspirations, especially as they formed the majority of party members.
		Mawan, who is also Sarawak Social Development and Urbanization Minister, said that SPDP was taking the initiative to organise, jointly with the PRS, an economic conference soon to address some of the major challenges and opportunities faced by the community today.
		As a rural-based party, he said SPDP fully supported the implementation of the Native Customary Rights (NCR) land development programme in the rural areas by wooing NCR landowners to respond to the government's call to develop it into large-scale oil palm plantations, in joint venture with investors.
	www.bernama.com /bernama/state_news/news.php?id=151221&cat=sre (446 words)

	Encyclopedia: Barisan Nasional
		The Sabah Progressive Party (Parti Majuh Sabah) is a political party in Sabah, Malaysia.
		The Parti Bersatu Sabah (United Sabah Party) is a political party in Malaysia.
		The Liberal Democratic Party (Parti Liberal Demokratik) is a Chinese minority political party in Sabah, Malaysia.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Barisan-Nasional (939 words)

	Sarawak - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Sarawak
		Although about 30% of the forest was cut down between 1963 and 1989, timber is still the most important export after oil.
		Sarawak was granted by the Sultan of Brunei to English soldier James Brooke in 1841, who became ‘Raja of Sarawak’.
		It was a British protectorate from 1888 until captured by the Japanese in World War II.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Sarawak (239 words)

	Elections in Malaysia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Parti Bersatu Sabah (United Sabah Party): Sabah regionalist party.
		Parti Liberal Demokratik/Liberal Democratic Party : Chinese minority party based in Sabah.
		Parti Majuh Sabah/Sabah Progressive Party: ethnic Chinese party, f.
	www.electionworld.org /malaysia.htm (471 words)

	Walking the Sarawak tightrope
		The multi-ethnic PBB is the party of choice for Sarawak’s 29% Muslim bumiputra, with the Melanau comprising 7% to the Malays 22% of Sarawak’s 2.1 million population.
		Sarawak observers liken the SUPP to the Gerakan in the peninsula — a Chinese-based party with multi-racial components.
		After a surprise move by neighbouring Parti Bersatu Sabah to quit the Barisan on the eve of elections in October 1990, Sarawak’s politicians were careful of their relations with the capital.
	www.thestar.com.my /news/list.asp?file=/2004/7/4/focus/8360689&sec=focus (1484 words)

	Progressive Democratic Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Progressive Democratic Party is a name used by various political parties throughout the world.
		The Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan has a similar name.
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Progressive_Democratic_Party (99 words)

	Malaysia: The Taming of the Dayak - The PBDS saga continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Both are parties with complex and uneasy relationships, in turn submissive and defiant, with the dominant Sarawak BN party, the Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB).
		In the context of Sarawak politics, this was a crippled rump outside the BN, needing to re-discover the lost spirit and wherewithal to function as an opposition party — which they did to a very limited degree in the recent parliamentary elections.
		In the local parlance of Sarawak Dayak politics, James was cast as the next Jabu, referring to Alfred Jabu, a longstanding Deputy Chief Minister popularly portrayed as the paradigm of the subservient and obsequious Dayak.
	www.aliran.com /monthly/2004a/6h.html (4443 words)

	Political passion runs high
		Sarawak's serene Sungai Rajang is fed by turbulent tributaries — as passionate as the hearts of the Dayak who at 44% form the majority ethnic group in this peaceful state.
		The 21-year-old Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) is embroiled in a leadership struggle with state Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation Datuk Seri Dr James Jemut Masing heading one faction and party deputy president Datuk Seri Daniel Tajem leading the other.
		Sarawak observers feel that Masing has a hold over S’ng through his son Larry, at 21 the youngest state assemblyman, who was endorsed by Masing and backed by his team.
	www.thestar.com.my /news/list.asp?file=/2004/6/27/focus/8303509&sec=focus (1378 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of political parties in Malaysia
		Malaysia is a one party dominant state with the United Malays National Organization in power.
		Opposition parties are allowed, but are widely considered to have no real chance of gaining power.
		That means: the parties are named in the English translation and the original native name is placed on the first line of the article unless the native form is more commonly used in English than the English form.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-political-parties-in-Malaysia (212 words)

	Malaysia information Malaysia information
		consisting of the following parties: gerakan rakyat malaysia party or pgrm [lim keng yaik]; liberal democratic party (parti liberal demokratik - sabah) or ldp [chong kah kiat]; malaysian chinese association (persatuan china malaysia) or mca [ong ka ting]; malaysian indian congress (kongresi india malaysia) or mic [s.
		and possibly brunei; while the 2002 "declaration on the conduct of parties in the south china sea" has eased tensions over the spratly islands.
		it is not the legally binding "code of conduct" sought by some parties; malaysia was not party to the march 2005 joint accord among the national oil companies of china.
	www.ip2stats.com /Malaysia_fact.html (1305 words)

	Malaysia Today: Your source of independent news
		Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP), that will be contesting a state seat under Barisan Nasional (BN) for the first time, would leave no stone unturned in their campaign to win the battle against their political nemesis, Sarawak National Party (SNAP), contesting as an opposition party.
		Meanwhile, SNAP is still very secretive over their choice of candidate and insists that they would only be revealing the candidate on the eve of nomination day.
		The main concern for both BN and SNAP is that the majority of the voters reside in Miri and this translates into very low voter turnout.
	www.malaysia-today.net /english/MT080904d.htm (386 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Parti Rakyat Sarawak accepted into national BN KUALA LUMPUR: Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), the party formed by a faction of the deregistered Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS), was unanimously accepted as a component member of the national Barisan Nasional (BN) on Monday.
		Within days of its formation, PRS was admitted as a component of the Sarawak BN headed by Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, and it quickly applied for membership in the national BN as well.
		The other parties in the Sarawak BN are Taib's Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (PBB), Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) and Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP).
	www.sun2surf.com /article.cfm?id=9686 (235 words)

	:: By-Election For Ba'Kelalan State Seat :: News :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		LAWAS (Sarawak), Sept 11 (Bernama) -- The Ba'Kelalan Barisan Nasional (BN) women are fully behind Nelson Balang Rining, the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) candidate for the constituency.
		Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) Ba'Kelalan women chief, Datin Seri Mariam Balan, Saturday called on women from other BN component parties to rally behind Nelson to ensure victory.
		"We have experienced how tough and miserable life in the highlands and rural parts of Sarawak can be when you are left far behind from the mainstream of development and lack good tarred roads, electricity, telephone lines, medical and health facilities, air accessibility and clean piped water," she said.
	www.bernama.com /events/elect_bklalan/news.php?id=92020&cat= (589 words)

	Access International Domains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		These states, along with Sabah and Sarawak, are administered by governors appointed by the Malaysian government.
		Under the terms of the federation, Sabah and Sarawak have retained certain constitutional prerogatives (such as the right to maintain their own immigration controls) while foreign affairs, defense, and internal security are delegated to the federal government.
		Following legislative elections, the leader of the party that wins a plurality of the seats in the House of Representatives emerges as the new prime minister.
	webdb.iu.edu /internationalprograms/scripts/accesscoverpage.cfm?country=malaysia (2056 words)

	Utusan Malaysia Online - Home News
		KUCHING July 9 - The Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) has reiterated that it is willing to accommodate any Barisan Nasional (BN) elected representatives or ministers and assistant ministers from other state component parties if asked to do so by the BN leadership.
		Another condition is, provided that such a move would not destablise the party, the party president, Datuk William Mawan, who is also State Minister of Social Development and Urbanisation, told a news conference after chairing a SPDP Supreme Council meeting Friday.
		"This has yet to be shown, and the party seems to be complying with the constitution in preparing for the party polls in October," a BN state leader, who asked not to be identified, told Bernama.
	www.utusan.com.my /utusan/content.asp?y=2004&dt=0710&pub=Utusan_Express&sec=Home_News&pg=hn_06.htm (504 words)

	Malaysia: Sarawak - Keen Contests In Urban Areas? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		In other words, expect the Sarawak BN to win all 28 parliamentary seats in the state in the 11th parliamentary election.
		Of late, the two Dayak parties within the Sarawak BN, SPDP (formerly a faction of SNAP) and PBDS have been wrecked by destructive political infighting.
		And considering that Daniel Tajem, a former Sarawak BN Deputy Chief Minister (who was one of the original plotters of the Ming Court affair in 1987) has a cool relationship with the current chief minister, this view is not implausible.
	www.aliran.com /monthly/2003/7j.html (1538 words)

	Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party will be the party to ensure Bintulu is a developed city in 2007.....all must work hard to achieve this VISION.
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	www.freeglossary.com /Sarawak_Progressive_Democratic_Party (271 words)

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		However, another BN component, the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) was still undecided on the issue.
		Whatever stand we are going to make has to come from the Supreme Council," SPDP secretary general Sylvester Entri said.He said that the party would hold its Supreme Council meeting on Nov. 12 and the issue was among many other things to be discussed.
		At the moment five former PBDS elected representatives, comprising three Members of Parliament (MPs) and two state assemblymen are still without a party and are undecided whether they would be joining BN component parties.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=8578983&postID=109932000943517356 (361 words)

	Apa hal PRS dan masing? \| malaysia.net
		SIBU, July 10 (Bernama) -- Parti Rakyat Sarawak (PRS), a component of the state Barisan Nasional (BN), has raised the possibility of fielding several Chinese candidates in elections in the future, considering that it is reportedly attracting many Chinese as its members statewide.
		The party now has one Chinese elected representative in Larry Sng Wei Shien, who is Pelagus state-assemblyman and an assistant minister in the Chief Minister's Office.
		He said the party's Chinese members could help to secure victories for candidates from the PBB, SUPP or SPDP in urban and semi-urban constituencies in the next state election.
	www.malaysia.net /node/3137 (376 words)

	Kuching, Malaysia - Current News & Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		KUCHING: The Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) is in the process of compiling data on Chinese education in the state to be submitted to the Prime Minister...
		Sarawak deputy police chief Senior Asst Comm I Abang Abdul Wahab Abang Julai told a press conference in Kuching that police believed the five at large were...
		KUCHING: Sarawak is seeking to patent a tree bark extract with the potential to be used in treating respiratory ailments such as asthma.
	www.4newz.net /world/am/Kuching.html (11110 words)

	Asia Insights : Malaysia
		Parti Islam se Malaysia (Islamic Party of Malaysia): islamist party.
		Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu (United Traditional umiputera Party): Sarawak regionalist party.
		Parti Progresif Penduduk Malaysia/People's Progressive Party of Malaysia, left-wing party.
	www.niaslinc.dk /gateway_to_asia/Asia_Insights/Malaysia.asp (399 words)

	ELECTION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		SEREMBAN, March 9 (Bernama) -- Negeri Sembilan Parti Keadilan Nasional (Keadilan) advisor Mohamad Rafie Abdul Malek said the opposition alliance, Barisan Alternatif (BA), have reached a consensus on seat allocation in the state.
		KUCHING, March 9 (Bernama) -- Sarawak Police have advised political parties and candidates intending to hold political rallies during the election to apply for permits seven days beforehand.
		KUCHING, March 9 (Bernama) -- More than 500 members of the Sarawak National Party (Snap) Tuesday joined the Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) as Snap is no longer a component of the State Barisan Nasional (BN).
	www.bernama.com.my /election2004/news_list.php?cat=ge&page=85 (475 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: List_of_political_parties_in_Malaysia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Sarawak United People's Party (Parti Rakyat Bersatu Sarawak, SUPP)
		Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (Parti Demokratik Progresif Sarawak, SAPP)
		Punjabi Party of Malaysia (Parti Punjabi Malaysia, PPM)
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=List_of_political_parties_in_Malaysia (264 words)

	:: By-Election For Ba'Kelalan State Seat :: News :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-17)
		Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) secretary-general Sylvester Entrie Muran said it was crucial for them to come back as it was within their rights to vote and elect the representative to the State Legislative Assembly.
		The Ba'kelalan by-election is a straight fight between BN's Nelson Balang Rining and independent candidate Baru Bian, who is a former Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak (PBDS) Supreme Council member.
		PBDS is a component party of the state BN.
	www.bernama.com /events/elect_bklalan/news.php?id=92132&cat= (483 words)

	Utusan Malaysia Online - Home News
		On the new party, Dr Masing said it would provide a lifeline for former PBDS members to play meaningful roles within Barisan Nasional.
		Dr Masing said his focus, if given the chance to lead the new party, would be to recruit as many interested former PBDS members, particularly the youths of Sarawak, to join it.
		Speaking in a firmer tone, he said the party has to work fast as it only had two months to form enough divisions throughout the state before they could hold the meeting.
	www.utusan.com.my /utusan/content.asp?y=2004&dt=1024&pub=Utusan_Express&sec=Home_News&pg=hn_09.htm (762 words)

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