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	United Malays National Organisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		However, membership in UMNO was and continues to be limited to members of the Malay (bumiputra) race, and Onn Jaafar's attempt to change this policy and the party's name into the United Malaya National Organisation was rejected in 1951.
		On 25 June 1987, an appeal was filed by 12 of the UMNO delegates (one of whom, Hussain bin Manap, withdrew unexpectedly in August) to have the assembly and the election of April 1987 declared null.
		A series of Malay congresses were held, culminating in the formation of UMNO on May 11, 1946 at the Third Malay Congress in Johor Bahru, with Datuk Onn Jaafar at its head.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Malays_National_Organization (1434 words)

	H-Net* Political parties eye women's votes in Malaysia's electoral battl
		She also acknowledged that older women voters were staunch supporters of the United Malays National Organisation led by Premier Mahathir Mohamad, but said the young ones appeared to be supportive to the idea of a strong opposition.
		UMNO is the dominant member in the coalition with its traditional power base being ethnic Malays in the rural areas.
		Marina Yusof, vice-president of the National Justice Party led by the wife of detained ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, said the party had embarked on a program to persuade women to vote for change -- especially those who seldom ventured out or followed national developments.
	www.mail-archive.com /hizb@hizbi.net/msg02715.html (336 words)

	UMNO - Unfettered Materialism New Oligarchy?
		UMNO, after all these years of Malay nationalism, still retains the Bahasa Inggeris acronym for United Malays National Organisation in common usage, in speeches, posters and newpaper banner headlines of all languages.
		UMNO could very well stand for, depending on how far down you are or up in the pecking order; the United Moneyminded Networkers Organisation, or the Ultimate Money Netting Operation, or any of these, depending where you are from the outside looking in: either the Ultimate Mechanism for National Oppulence, Oppression or Opprobrium..
		The National Economic Action Council, now the operative cabinet recently promoted the success of privatisation and its socio-economic achievements; citing the extremely successful North South Highway.
	members.fortunecity.com /info_kru/umno.htm (2270 words)

	IPS- Search
		Ethnic Malays in the northern state of Kedah and in the east coast states of Kelantan and Terengganu on the peninsula are generally much poorer than their urban counterparts in the Kuala Lumpur.
		Malays are the largest of the various indigenous bumiputera groups in Malaysia.
		UMNO said the scandal showed how ethnic-based affirmative action policies could be abused to enrich a select group of well-connected individuals.
	domino.ips.org /ips\eng.nsf/vwWebMainView/305AB13D8132E2E1C1257061002584B3?OpenDocument (1241 words)

	News Updates from June 2000 to the present
		The rally is seen as a calculated step to drum up Malay support for Mahathir's dominant United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), using as a spring-board recent calls by a Chinese lobby group to end Malays' privileges.
		The conservative Malay population were shocked and deeply divided by Mahathir's sacking in 1998 of his former deputy and protege, Anwar Ibrahim, now serving a 15-year jail term for corruption and sodomy offences he says are trumped up.
		Last month, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad and other Malay leaders scolded critics of the privileges for the country's largest ethnic group, saying it was too early to end a policy introduced in 1971 after bloody racial riots of 1969.
	www.freeanwar.net /news012001/reuters030201.html (306 words)

	Malaysia's Races Live Peacefully -- But Separately
		Hilmi Abdul Rashid, a state assemblyman with the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) in northern Penang state says the lack of interaction is a serious problem.
		Scholars and politicians warn that the existing peace and harmony in the country must not be taken for granted and have pressed for a national convention to identify a strategy towards a united Malaysian race.
		UMNO is the dominant party in the National Front coalition which has ruled Malaysia since independence in 1957.
	aad.english.ucsb.edu /docs/08-28-05AFP.htm (957 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		UMNO is the dominant party in the 14-member ruling National Front coalition.
		For Abdullah, who is away on a high-powered trip to the United States, Britain and France, winning the post was important to legitimise his position as premier.
		UMNO secretary general Radzi Sheikh Ahmad said the UMNO disciplinary committee is scheduled to meet this week to hear 74 cases of vote- buying, mostly allegations made during branch elections last month.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/print.asp?idnews=24698 (1006 words)

	Malaysia Ruling Party Urged to Shun ‘Traitor’ Anwar
		The head of the youth wing of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) did not name Anwar, freed this month from almost six years in jail, but it was clear that the former deputy prime minister turned anti-government protester was his target.
		A rising star of Malaysia’s main ruling party urged the organisation on Wednesday to close ranks against its most prominent dissident, Anwar Ibrahim, branding the former deputy premier a traitor.
		Abdullah took power a year ago from veteran leader and UMNO strongman Mahathir Mohamad, whose sacking of Anwar six years ago prompted one of the most divisive chapters in Malaysian politics and split UMNO, which sees itself as the backbone of government.
	www.sodomylaws.org /world/malaysia/mynews069.htm (664 words)

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		United Nations 1956 Supplementary Convention on the Abolition of Slavery
		United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
		United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/u/un/index.html (783 words)

	Malaysia : playing the Islamic game
		Malays in general and the devout and conservative in particular had a fond hope that Anwar will be at the helm of affairs.
		UMNO the predominant party of the ruling coalition has been more liberal in its approach till the last general elections though it spared no efforts to bring up the Malays economically and socially by its affirmative action.
		UMNO might have brought this bill upto this point to woo the devout muslims and will perhaps keep it under wraps only to be brought up at a politically opportune moment.
	www.saag.org /papers2/paper155.htm (975 words)

	Articles - Lee Kuan Yew
		The Malaysian Central Government, ruled by the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), became worried by the inclusion of Singaporeâs Chinese majority and the political challenge of the PAP in Malaysia.
		Lee openly opposed the bumiputra policy and used the Malaysian Solidarity Convention's famous cry of "Malaysian Malaysia!", a nation serving the Malaysian nationality, as opposed to the Malay race.
		In the national elections held on June 1, 1959, the PAP won forty-three of the fifty-one seats in the legislative assembly.
	www.fruit-center.com /articles/Lee_Kuan_Yew (4522 words)

	Malays urged not to suffer "same fate" as in Singapore
		THNIC Malays in Malaysia will suffer the "same fate" as their counterparts in Singapore if they let the opposition rule the country, a senior Malaysian ruling party official said Apr 8.
		Mustapa said the future of the Malays would be jeopardised if an opposition alliance came to power.
		Malays urged not to suffer "same fate" as in Singapore
	www.singapore-window.org /sw01/010408af.htm (255 words)

	Mahathir fears power struggle when he retires
		UMNO, which has formed the core of every government since Malaysia’s independence from Britain in 1957, leads a coalition that includes parties representing the large ethnic Chinese and Indian minorities.
		Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has expressed fears of a potential power struggle in Malaysia’s ruling party after he retires in October, a newspaper reported Sunday.
		Mahathir, who is UMNO’s president, warned that candidates might jostle for key party posts after he steps down, but no one would likely challenge his deputy, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who he has picked as his successor.
	nation.ittefaq.com /artman/exec/view.cgi/4/2511/printer (328 words)

	Encyclopedia: Malaysia
		West Malaysia or Peninsular Malaysia on the Malay Peninsula shares a land border on the north with Thailand and is connected by the Johor Causeway and the Tuas Second Link on the south with Singapore.
		A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is formally recognized by a countrys government as their states official national song.
		Peninsular Malaysia (or Semenanjung Malaysia in the Malay language) is the part of Malaysia which lies on the Malay Peninsula, and shares a land border with Thailand in the north.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Malaysia/Transnational-issues (1619 words)

	Commonwealth Yearbook Home
		United Malays' National Organisation (UMNO), with 88 seats, was the dominant party in the coalition which also included Malaysian Chinese Association (30), Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (13), Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia (7), Malaysian Indian Congress (6) and Sarawak United People's Party (6).
		However, when the elections were held in November 1999, the ruling National Front coalition scored a decisive victory with 148 seats, and the combined opposition parties took 42 seats.
		In his closing speech to the UMNO annual congress in June 2002, 76-year-old Mahathir announced his retirement, but subsequently agreed to continue as prime minister until October 2003, when his deputy, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, duly succeeded him as UMNO leader and prime minister.
	www.thecommonwealth.org /Templates/YearbookInternal.asp?NodeID=138687 (498 words)

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		The creation of the present ruling party, the United Malays National Organisation (Umno), in 1946 in Johor state was the very result of Malay fears regarding the implementation of the Malayan Union, which they saw as a high-handed and uncomprehending attempt to create a sociopolitical system in which they had little or no say.
		Malay progress vis-a-vis the non-Malays was reduced to the formation of an urban Malay middle class.
		Outside Umno, compromises were attempted in the aftermath of the MCA's failure to deliver the Chinese vote in the formation of the Barisan Nasional to replace the Alliance.
	www.blogger.com /email-post.g?blogID=11636079&postID=112392369695270893 (1645 words)

	20012003
		The police today raided and seized 19 computers from Malaysiakini today following a report lodged by UMNO (United Malays National Organisation - the ruling party) Youth last Friday.
		Since its inception, Malaysiakini has always acted as an independent media organisation; as such, it has come under increasing fire from the authorities, and has been publicly vilified for its supposedly defamatory articles on Malaysia.
		The UMNO Youth report itself followed a letter published in Malaysiakini's "Letters" Section on January 9, 2003, and considered "seditious" by UMNO Youth.
	www.fidh.org /communiq/2003/my2001a.htm (363 words)

	Race in Malaysia - Affirmative action failing?
		The youth wing of the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the ruling, Malay-based party, called for a revival of the spirit of the New Economic Policy (NEP), which first ushered in affirmative action for Malays in 1970.
		With Malays in charge of the universities and Malays also in charge of the government that controlled the universities?...
		The prime minister and leader of the party, Abdullah Badawi, agreed that the NEP needed fixing, as it had imbued Malays not with the intended spirit of entrepreneurialism, but with an unfortunate proclivity for rent-seeking.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1471682/posts (682 words)

	The Hindu : International : Badawi stresses moderate Islam
		Neither of these two commitments is directly related to the latest international environment - the London bombings and failed attempts that are blamed on "Islamic extremists", besides the impact of the Chinese currency-valuation-change on the Malaysian ringgit.
		The current campaign to refurbish the image of the UMNO should be seen in the context of what some Malaysian experts such as K. Nathan characterise as the sustained "re-engineering of the UMNO" under the leadership of Mr.
		The renewal of vows is related as much to the ongoing annual political stock-taking by the UNMO as the need to keep the party of majority Malay community "acceptable" to the multi-racial country, where a prosperous Chinese segment and the ethnic Indians are often seen to require reassurances.
	www.hindu.com /2005/07/25/stories/2005072504701400.htm (362 words)

	Pravda.RU Henry L. Marconi: Anti-american demonstrations in Malaysia
		Malay Muslim officials from United Malays National Organisation staged a protest outside the US Embassy on Monday condemning recent American and British missile strikes on Iraq.
		The Belgrade authorities have decreed a day of national mourning for today after the attack by Albanian terrorists on a bus carrying Serbs.
		At least eight prisoners have been killed and negotiations are continuing for the release of as many as 5,000 hostages, including 1,000 children, inside the Carandiru jail in Sao Paulo, the largest in Latin America More details...
	english.pravda.ru /main/2001/02/19/2580.html (1832 words)

	BBC News ASIA-PACIFIC Mahathir lashes out
		Six senior figures in the National Justice Party have since been ordered detained without trial for two years - a decision that provoked sharp criticism from the United States and the European parliament.
		The 76-year old party leader fought back tears as he recited a poem appealing to ethnic Malays to stand united.
		The 2,000 Umno delegates stood and applauded, as they have done after each of Dr Mahathir's appearances in the 20 years since he assumed the party leadership.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1405286.stm (743 words)

	UNRISD: Publications The New Economic Policy and Interethnic Relations in Malaysia
		The NEP was supposed to create the conditions for national unity by reducing interethnic resentment due to socioeconomic disparities.
		The actual poverty rate in the peninsula in 1990 was 17 per cent, while the national rate was slightly higher.
		While there is little doubt that specific socioeconomic targets of the NEP have been largely achieved, later rather than sooner, it is not clear that such achievement has led to national unity, understood in terms of improved interethnic relations.
	www.unrisd.org /80256B3C005BCCF9/(httpPublications)/A20E9AD6E5BA919780256B6D0057896B?OpenDocument (738 words)

	Malaysia Today
		Datuk Seri Anwar's new found liberty has put the United Malays National Organisation on guard against a possible comeback by its former rising star, who was being groomed as prime minister before his downfall six years ago in a power struggle with then-leader Mahathir Mohamad.
		Datuk Seri Abdullah's deputy Najib Razak - who could have the most to lose if Datuk Seri Anwar were to regain prominence in Umno, the path to power in Malaysia - urged members to stop speculating on the charismatic former deputy leader's future.
		KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia's ruling party was urged on Saturday ahead of its annual congress to stop fretting about former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim, whose recent release from prison has roiled the political scene.
	www.malaysia-today.net /english/MT_BI_180904c.htm (354 words)

	Sept 11 an excuse to attack Muslims: Mahathir
		The latest volley from Mahathir, who has been a strident critic of the US-led attack on Iraq, came during an opening address to his United Malays National Organisation annual general assembly.
		Veteran Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad accused the West on Thursday of using the September 11, 2001, strikes on the United States as an excuse to attack Muslim nations and return to 'violent old ways'.
		Mahathir was thanked by President George W Bush little more than a year ago for his help in the war on terror but he has since irritated Washington with a series of angry outbursts in the months before the attack on Baghdad.
	www.rediff.com /news/2003/jun/19malay.htm (320 words)

	Art5711.txt
		Most Malays prefer so-called national schools, which have strong Malay and Islamic undertones, or Islamic madrassas, where the core subject is Islam.
		"Many parents are also put off by the strong Islamic undercurrents in national schools," said James Wong, senior political analyst with Malaysiakini, an independent news website.
		Malay Leaders Angered by Call for More Chinese Schools Baradan Kuppusamy In Kuala Lumpur South China Morning Post Mar, 15, 2005 NEWS 11 A call by ethnic-Chinese leaders for the government to build more Chinese -language schools has drawn fierce opposition from nationalist-minded Malay leaders in the dominant Umno party.
	www.asu.edu /educ/epsl/LPRU/newsarchive/Art5711.txt (417 words)

	Branch chief of Malaysia's ruling UMNO party found murdered
		KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 (Agence France-Presse) - A 56-year old head of a branch of Malaysia's ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) was found dead with his throat slit in his house in central Pahang state, a report said Wednesday.
		Branch chief of Malaysia's ruling UMNO party found murdered
		Samsudin was head of the Panching village UMNO branch in Kuantan.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/96/11/13/murder.0-0.html (139 words)

	Keranamu Malaysia
		He was first elected to Parliament in 1964 as a member of the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), the dominant party within the ruling governmental coalition.
		In 1969, however Mahathir was expelled from the UMNO after his forceful advocacy of ethnic Malay nationalism brought him into conflict with Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman.
		In June 1981, soon after Datuk Hussein had announced his retirement, Mahathir was elected president of the UMNO, which ensured his succession as the Fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia on 16 July 1981.
	www.snecx.com /web/ertimerdeka/minister_mahathir.html (644 words)

	The Manila Times Internet Edition WORLD > Profiles of Malaysian election’s main party leaders
		Abdullah heads the United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), the dominant party in the National Front coalition which has ruled Malaysia since its independence from Britain in 1957.
		Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, 52, entered politics as the leader of the National Justice Party (Keadilan), which was formed after her husband Anwar Ibrahim was sacked as deputy prime minister in 1998 and jailed on charges of corruption and sodomy.
		Abdullah was born in November 1939 in Penang, northwest Malaysia.
	www.manilatimes.net /national/2004/mar/21/yehey/world/20040321wor2.html (739 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 4 Num 298
		Badawi's coalition, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO), won more than 90 per cent of the seats in the national Parliament and managed to regain one of the conservative states (Terengganu) it lost to the PAS at the 1999 election.
		In Seoul, politicians are immersed in the debate of bitter impeachment of their President and in Taiwan the national election is overshadowed by calls for invalidating the result of the election.
		During the campaign, Badawi turned to the plight of Malay farmers in the Islamic heartland of the North-East of the country and it paid handsome political dividends.
	www.thedailystar.net /2004/03/31/d40331020332.htm (1066 words)

	Mahathir quits - then changes his mind - smh.com.au
		The political theatre, played out in a televised broadcast, whipsawed the emotions of the nation and of the 2,000 delegates to the annual party congress of the ruling United Malays National Organisation.
		In a long career as a champion for the economic advancement of the Malay Muslim majority, he has juggled Malaysia's sensitive racial issues with the large ethnic Chinese and Indian majorities while building one of the most affluent countries in Asia.
		Earlier, the hall was a scene of pandemonium when Mahathir, giving a closing speech to the five-day congress, shifted from quoting Shakespeare and outlining government programs to state that he was resigning from all posts in the party and the National Front governing coalition.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/06/22/1023864517207.html (707 words)

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