More cracks in SAPP expected

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Progressive Party deputy president Datuk Raymond Tan has been removed as its Sandakan zone and Tanjung Papat Constituency Liaison committee (CLC) chairman, suggesting deepening differences with party president Datuk Seri Yong Teck Lee.

It is learnt the decision to strip Tan of his CLC chairmanship was made at the party's central working committee meeting on Aug 30.

The Tanjung Papat new CLC chairman is Poon Kee Yang, who also heads the Karamunting CLC.

SAPP secretary-general Datuk Richard Yong confirmed Tan's removal.

Tan, who is one of Sabah's three deputy chief ministers, was among several SAPP leaders who were against the move to support a no-confidence motion against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Tan, who is Tanjung Papat assemblyman, said he would wait for an official announcement before making any comments.

"In any case, the appointments of CLC and zone chairman are the prerogative of the party president," he said, adding that he would remain as the party's deputy president because he was elected to the post.

It also appears that cracks have emerged in the party with vice-president and Kawang CLC chairman Norbert Chin resigning from the two posts, and several other senior party officials said to be on the verge of quitting.

Chin's place had been taken over by Juil Insing.

Norbert tendered his resignation in July, saying he wanted to concentrate in his legal practice.

SAPP VP quits

One of the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP)eight Vice Presidents Norbert Chin today confirmed that he had resigned from all posts in the party led by Ex-Chief Minister Datuk Seri Panglima Yong Teck Lee.

Chin said his resignation had been accepted and ceased to be a member of the party's supreme council effective Aug 30, 2008. He said he resigned to concentrate on his legal practise.

The other VPs are Datuk Frankia Chong,Datuk Dr Chua Soon Bui, Au Kam Wah, Melania Chia, Datuk Rashid Gador, Shim Paw Fatt, Jimmy Wong and Don Chin.

Chin's resignation seemed to confirm that SAPP is facing a split with more to follow suit.

This `mass resignation' of party's leaders had to do with Yong's decision to call for no-confidence vote against Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

My Say:

What's next of this party?

Pak Samad

Bapak Has Left Us

Nuraina Samad, my former boss in New Straits Times posted the following in her blog at 6.53pm today announcing the passing of her beloved father Tan Sri Samad Ismail. I had the opportunity to work under this great man in NST while he was the Group Editorial Advisor. My condolence to Nuraina and the family of Pak Samad.

Alfatihah. My dad passed away at 5.58 pm today.

Thank you for all your prayers for him.
May God Bless You.
We are taking Bapak's body back from the hospital to the house at 2, Lorong 16/7C, Petaling Jaya now.
The kebumi will be at Bukit Kiara after Friday prayers tomorrow (Sept 5)


Below are words about this `Father of Journalism'


A. Samad Ismail, 1994 Magsaysay Award recipient

The 1994 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature and Creative Communication Arts

CITATION for Abdul Samad Ismail

Ramon Magsaysay Award Presentation Ceremonies in
Manila, Philippines in 1994


Born in British Singapore to Javanese parents, ABDUL SAMAD ISMAIL completed his Senior Cambridge Certificate in the final year of peace before World War II. Spurning the more conventional careers for English-educated Malays, he became a cub reporter at the newly launched Malay daily, Utusan Melayu. Newspaper work suited the restless, brilliant youth and it became his life-long addiction.

Rising during the war years to assistant editor of Utusan Melayu, SAMAD at twenty-one became editor of the Japanese-sponsored Berita Malai. The returning British jailed him briefly after the war, but SAMAD soon assumed effective editorial leadership of the revived Utusan Melayu. In his hands the newspaper covered sympathetically the agitations of radical labor and student movements and became an instrument in the independence struggle.

SAMAD steeped himself in anti-colonial politics. He joined left-wing Malay nationalists in pressing for a decolonization plan in which the interests of Malays would be paramount and met regularly with anti-colonial activists of all races, urging them to stand with the most oppressed social classes, especially poor Malays. Secretly he arranged material support for Indonesian revolutionaries at war with the Dutch. SAMAD's ties to leftist leaders and organizations led the British to arrest him a second time in 1951. Never tried, he was released in 1953 to popular acclaim; he rejoined the Utusan Melayu and, with Lee Kuan Yew, founded Singapore's People's Action Party (PAP).

From his earliest days as editor SAMAD religiously printed the works of Malay poets and short story writers. He now used his influence to support the "fifties generation" of Malay writers by publishing their literary works in Utusan Melayu. Passionately he cautioned Malays not to abandon their own language for English, assuring them that Malay "will gain in richness, utility, and beauty together with the emancipation and growth of Malayan society."

In 1959, having broken with both Utusan Melayu and Lee Kuan Yew, SAMAD moved to Kuala Lurnpur. As editor of Berita Harian and, eventually, as managing editor of the New Straits Times Group, he moved print journalism into the mainstream of Malaysian political life. He developed a nationwide team of correspondents based in rural areas and, as editor and mentor, shaped the thinking and values of Malaysia's rising writers and journalists. His own incisive articles in Malay and English dissected the country's complex electoral processes and drew attention to embarrassing inequities in the national society. He promoted standardization of the national language and the creation of a national university. SAMAD also explored the social complexities of Malaysia's fast-evolving multi-ethnic society in a series of novels, beginning in 1967.

Jailed again in 1976 under Malaysia's Internal Security Act, SAMAD was released in 1981 and rejoined the New Straits Times Group as editorial adviser. Retired in 1988, he was knighted by Malaysia's king in 1992. Today he teaches young writers and continues to write actively himself. He wams up-and-coming reporters about the blandishments of power and money and reminds them of their "moral obligation to the nation as citizens."

A notorious workaholic and jokester, seventy-year-old SAMAD is also famous for his astute political insights and powerful mind. He is "a thinker for his people," as one admirer puts it. Personally, his friends say, he is something of an enigma. SAMAD admits, "Only my Creator knows me well."

In electing ABDUL SAMAD ISMAIL to receive the 1994 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Journalism, Literature, and the Creative Communication Arts, the board of trustees recognizes his applying his intellect and journalistic skills to champion national independence, cultural revival, and democratic nation-building in Malaysia.

Most Correct Decision...

Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Vice President Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan's former political secretary Kanul Gindol said it would be the most correct decision by the Pakatan Rakyat Government to make Sept 16 a public holiday in the five States its conrtolled - Penang, Perak, Selangor, Terengganu and Kelantan.

Its long overdue, he said in a SMS to me a minute ago. He said it was certainly in the right direction and ought to be supported by all Malaysians.

"It will be foolish not to support just because the people are in different political parties," Kanul said.

Majimbun on Sept 16 issue

As published HERE today.

My Say:

For the record Datuk Seri Joseph Pairin Kitingan then Chief Minister had during the 25th Anniversary Celebration of Malaysia Day in Kota Kinabalu on Sept 16, 1988 requested the Federal Government that starting the following year (1989) Sept 16, be declared a national public holiday to mark Malaysia Day.

Pairin had said that Sept 16, 1963 was a special date for all Malaysians as it was the day when the Federation of Malaysia was inaugurated.

Politics Malaysia - Anwar vs UMNO

Posted by/in mindspring on September 3, 2008. Worth reproducing it as post on its own.

Looking at the comments flying through blogshpere, it is apparent that the battle line between Anwar and UMNO will be drawn on the basis of race. UMNO the protector of the Malay’s and Anwar the sell out of the Malay’s.

I think - UMNO and its supporters in particular have a conceptual flaw in their thinking an it is a flaw that Anwar is capitalizing on.

Elections is truly a battle of perceptions - perception of which candidate has a better deal to offer. The challenge with perceptions is that it changes with sociographics change. And these are irreversible changes. Unfortunately for UMNO it is trying to relate to a voter base that has shifted - in terms of understanding, in terms of education, in terms of wealth and in terms of aspirations. In a way it is like the dog that bit the master’s hand - because these are the very malays who became what they are because of UMNO policies.

The flaw in the thinking is that UMNO expects this new sociographic to hold on to values of the past. While the past was described by rural poverty, lack of access to basic education, but balanced with abundance of open spaces and clean air, the present scenario is completely different.

The urban Malay is confronted with Urban poverty, lack of access to quality in education, living in fairly confined spaces and a degrading environment.

The fact that remains the same today as it was 50 years ago is that the Chinese are still in control of commerce and a large portion of wealth. The Malays are richer than before but probably still a gap behind the chinese. The difference between today and then is that in todays world. money speaks louder than ever. Anything that you wish can be bought - even kidneys! And this is credit to the NEP whose goal was to enlarge the pie and accordingly enlarge the bumi share of that pie, thus not robbing the chinese to pay the malays.

What the Malays - especially the urban malays are finding is that after so much of material advancement, life is still hard. Policies are not being put out to address the urban issues. The urban issues are being left to consumerism and wealth to dictate. Worst still, consumerism as pushed by Khazanah and the gods of capitalism will only bow to money. And the more everything becomes oriented to money, the more we will the chinese fingerprints - simply because that is where the money is.

Take the fuel price hike. That increase hurt the urban malay much more then the rural malay. The rural malay probably doesn’t travel as much to get on with his life - hence less usage of petrol. Whereas the urban malay has no choice but to cover all those miles by car or bike - going to work,sending kids to school, doing groceries on top of that having to pay for tolls, sit in congestion etc. Telling the urban malay that he cant drive anymore and should now take public transport - is like asking him to take a step backwards. And then at the same time UMNO says be grateful for all we have done.

No lah… people look at today only. Yes, people are 100% grateful for the past, but our reality is what is happening today. Unfortunately UMNO has not been able to move into the present.

Anwar has seized this position - Anwar is about the present and it is a position that works for him - right time, right place. Anwar may be the devil in disguise but that is not the issue, The issue is that politics and elections is a battle for peoples minds. Its a battle of perception.

The more UMNO tries to push the “protector of malay’s” agenda, the more it will backfire. Assumes that of 100% Malays - 50% are true muslims and 50% are liberal malays. The first lot will always be with PAS and PAS’s position is clear - the islamic way. Forget if PAS can run the country or not, that is not the issue. What is interesting is that more Malays professionals are in PAS that in UMNO (I think) and PAS itself in its line up has a much more professionally qualified leaders than in UMNO. These professionals are unfortunately for UMNO, the urban Malays.

OF the other 50% liberal malays - what do they do? Well they either stay in UMNO , become enlightened and join PAS or go mainstream and be with PKR. the decision of where they throw their support is truly a function of the proposition of the respective parties. So UMNO is indeed fishing from a diminishing pond.

Worst still, UMNO’s real strength has been the BN coalition. But that itself is gone. The Indians woke up and said what has MIC done for us and literally decimated MIC at the polls, likewise for the chinese MCA. So the issues we are facing is not just a MALAY UMNO issue. The county as a whole has grown up, and it is ready for a new politics.

UMNO has failed miserable to present itself as UMNO Baru Baru while PKR, DAP and even PAS have presented themselves with youthful candidates - high on energy and idealism. Just look at the contenders for the UMNO VP position and see if you can find anyone below 50 years old?

So my suggestion to UMNO and its supporters, the real battle is a battle of perception. Right now you have lost every round to Anwar. The only way you will win back support is when people see UMNO Baru Baru - No Pak Lah, No Najib, No Khairy, No Mukhris, No Hishamuddin. UMNO has to put forth an Peoples UMNO and not an UMNO that has been inherited by birth right of marriage.

For now you can't touch Anwar!

Sept 16 - Public Holiday In Sabah

While the five states controlled by the Opposition in Peninsula Malaysia are planning to declare Sept 16 a Public Holiday to celebrate the formation of Malaysia on Sept 16, 1963, Sabah has all this while been observing that date a Public Holiday, also to celebrate the official Birthday of the Governor (Yang Dipertua Negeri).

Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said his party UPKO fully supported the call by Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng for Sept 16 to be declared a National Public Holiday.

Speaking to the Press in Kota Kinabalu today, the UPKO president said the matter had been discussed in the Federal Cabinet but nothing came out of it to date. Dompok said he would bring up the matter to the Cabinet again.

But in Kuala Lumpur, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak had shot down the call by the Penang's Chief Minister, saying that the Federal Government had no intention to make Sept 16 a National Public Holiday.

In Loving Memory of Dr CJ

These two photographs were taken at the corner seat where Dr CJ (left) had been the permanent `resident'.

Dr Charles James (CJ) (left in both photographs) was the first man that I met and acquainted with upon my arrival in London on July 5th 1997 to begin my stint as New Straits Times news correspondent.

The NST office cum house (Times of Malaysia (London) Limited) was on the 1st Floor, 31 Chapel Side, Moscow Road, London W2 4LL a stone throw from the Bayswater and Queensway tube stations.

NST correspondent Rashid Yusof whom I was replacing came to the Heathrow Airport to wait for me and as soon as I met Karim Sulaiman and his family (they were staying a floor above me), I went out in search for something to eat.

I passed by King's Head Bar and seeing that there were not many people inside, I went in and sat at the end of the front bar. I ordered a pint and was enjoying that first drink in London, my back resting on the wall came a big build man walking with the aid walking sticks.

When he saw me, I smiled and said: Gentleman, I see you're new here. That place (pointing to where I was seated) is mine. Please, make way." Sensing that I was the only Malaysian inside the bar, I obediently moved away making way for the man to have his seat.

As I was moving to the a table holding the pint, the man said: "Young man, sit here (pointing to the empty chair next to him). I am CJ, join me. I will buy you a pint for moving from my seat."

Yes that was the beginning of a two years' friendship to CJ who was living just across the Bar and just a block away from Chapelside. It would be everyday with CJ at the bar. He introduced me to his friends who were professionals, TV celebrities and high-ranking City officials.

I had also introduced CJ to my friends/students from Malaysia and when I wife and children joined me, CJ was at the bar hosting us lunch.

I still remember when I came back from Germany after a-week-tour with the other London-based journalists that the moment I entered the bar, CJ was there staring at me. He was not amused for not being told where I went saying that he was worried that I went `missing' for a week.

When I told him that I was on official visit to Germany, he said:"Ah ha...young man the penalty is two pints for you for a week (he smiled), on me."

The next time I went to Scotland, I informed me and he gave me a number to call and the man turned out to be his relative. I had a great time. From the first encounter with CJ until I returned home to Kota Kinabalu Sabah, I was always there having a pint with CJ.

I also called CJ sometimes.

Than a shocking news was related to me by Nades (Citizen Nades) that CJ had passed away. I called on the numbers I used to call him, his younger brother Micheal was at the other end of the line crying, confirming that Dr CJ `had returned to the Lord.'

NST last assigned correspondent to London Mr Tony Emmanuel had the opportunity to meet and drink with CJ and he too, informed me of the good doctor's passing.

That was several years ago but Dr CJ, a retired medical consultant, is until now still fresh in my mind.

Still on the SAPP Convention

Those who attended the convention and below Harris giving his talk.

"Convention on Sabah Issues" organised by SAPP was a success participated by over 1,000 people at Putera Theatre Ballroom. Although invitations were sent out to BN component parties, wakil rakyats, MPs, none of them bothered to attend this convention which specifically touched on issues affecting Sabah and its people.

SAPP president, Datuk Yong Teck Lee, however, thanked Datuk Eric Majimbun (MP Sepanggar), Datuk Dr Chua Soon Bui (MP Tawau), DAP Dr. Hiew (MP for Kota Kinabalu), Parti Keadilan Rakyat national vice president Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, Sabah PKR chief Haji Ansari Abdullah, Datuk James Ligunjang, members and the public who turned up for the important convention.

Yong said that the no show by other BN parties showed that they put BN before/above the problems and issues affecting Sabah which was why the convention being organised in the first place.

Panel of speakers who came were Datuk Harris Salleh, former Sabah Chief Minister, who touches on the 20 points, political situation in Sabah and Malaysia, while emphasizing on BN politicians who kowtow to KL to seek favours and the high level of corruption within Umno during its party elections. The other panelist were Tan Sri Simon Sipaun of Suhakam and Mr. Amde Sidik, Daily Express columnist and writer/author.

Points to ponder

Ex-Chief Minister Datuk Harris Mohd Salleh was one of the speakers at the Convention for Sabah Issues organised by Sabah-based Barisan Nasional component (BN) member Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) at the Putera Theatre in Bukit Padang nere Kota Kinabalu.

Harris who was Chief Minister during his Party Berjaya Government (1976-1985) talks on various issues and also had a busy time fielding questions from the floor.

Answering a question, Harris said he did no think that Sabah would be joining the opposition because it would be like `out of the frying pan into the fire.'

Instead, he said what was important is for Umno to change, adding that when he was Sabah Chief Minister, he was never accepted as a Malay by Umno.

He said the `budaya cium tangan' (kissing the hand culture) had become embedded deeply in the BN.

"So how can we win if 60 per cent are those `cium tangan',' he said.

Harris was also asked for the reason why he surrendered Labuan to the Federal Government while he was the Chief Minister.

Using the grandfather, father and son terminology, Harris said a father (State Government) would not hesitate to give his son (Labuan) under the care of the grandfather (Federal Government).

He said the father was confident that the son would be taken good care because the grandfather has everything.

"But we never knew that the grandfather would give the son ikan masin (salted fish) and ask him to walk to school, " Harris said.

SAPP's Yong on the National Budget

Reading this article, one will think that the person voicing this is from the opposition. But this is a Press statement is from Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) President Datuk Yong Teck Lee issued to the Press in Kota Kinabalu on 29 August 2008.

Sugar-coated says Yong

Trust is vital in fulfilling the budget. Can we believe that this government will implement the budget that the PM has tabled today? There are numerous promises in recent years that the PM has yet to fulfill.

There have been so many flip flops such as over the fuel prices, the indecisiveness over the double tracking rail project, uncertainty over the Penang bridge, cancellation of the Singapore bridge and the Port Klang Free Port controversy that the people have lost confidence in the PM.

In Sabah, the suspense over the fate of the coal power plant in the East Coast of Sabah and the blur over whether to have a gas power plant in Kimanis or a RM 3 billion, 500-km gas pipeline to Bintulu have decimated the trustworthiness of the government leadership among the people.

Other examples that have made people to lose confidence abound. For instance, on 10 September 2004 the PM proclaimed a budgetary proposal in Parliament to implement a Goods and Services Tax (GST) on 1 January 2007.

But because the PM did not realize the adverse consequences of a hasty GST, the Minister of Finance, who is also the PM, had to declare eighteen months later (in February 2006) an indefinite deferment of the GST proposal.

Never before was a budgetary proposal (which was later approved by Parliament) failed to be implemented by the government due to ignorance of the implications of a GST in the country.

The 2005 budget too had declared its aim to raise RM 20 billion through PFI (Private Finance Initiative) for infrastructure projects as domestic investment in the economy. Hardly any of this RM 20 billion was raised up till last year.

This budget 2009 is silent as to the future of PFI and did not address the difficulties faced by the construction sector due to increased construction costs in public infrastructure projects.

Economic and corporate management is still suspect. The sale of M.V. Augusta, which Proton Holdings Berhad had sold to a third party for one Euro (RM 5) who then resold the M.V. Augusta for RM 358 million (Euro 70m) last year.

At the same time, the Malaysian corporate sector is still reeling from efforts to mitigate losses over national icon Malayan Banking's purported purchase of PT Bank Internasional Indonesia (BII) for a total of RM 12.7 billion.

This follows soon after Maybank share value lost sharply upon announcement to purchase 15% of a Pakistani bank (MCB Bank Ltd.) at RM 2.17 billion. The PM has yet to effectively explain how confidence can be restored among both domestic and foreign investors.

After the general elections of 8 March, investor confidence was so low that, in the 2nd quarter of 2008 (April to July), domestic investment dropped to RM 2.6 billion from RM6.7 billion (in the first quarter ending March 2008).

Foreign Direct Investments (FDIs) was even more bleak, dropping from RM 16 billion to a mere RM 7.3 billion in the 2 quarter compared to the first quarter before the 12th general elections. The budget presented by the PM today did not address this loss of investor confidence.

There is also no sign of the so-called RM 1 billion each allocated to Sabah (and later Sarawak) as announced by the PM on May 30 in Kota Kinabalu. Neither did these RM 2 billions appear in the supplementary budgets of last July's Parliamentary sitting. It remains a mystery where the RM 1 billion for Sabah comes from or will go to.

The one and only sector where hard working people make money for the government is the oil palm sector. But the government jealously had chosen to punish this "golden egg goose" by imposing a wind fall tax of 15% in June 2008, something that oil palm industry is still reeling from and unable to recover.

This budget 2009 did not deal with the issue of the damages caused to the oil palm industry. A form of damage control would be to reduce the foreign workers levies to a flat RM50.00 per worker so as to make it more feasible for employers to register their workers.

Sadly, the budget missed out the subject of foreign workers levies.

This budget is obviously sugar-coated to pacify the people with many unprecedented goodies. But the source of funds has not been adequately explained.
As for inflation, something that affects most people, July saw a high rate of 8.5%, the highest in the last quarter of a century.

For the poor people, the real effect is definitely much more than 8.5%. Pensioners and average persons with bank savings will find that their savings depreciate in value because inflation in wiping out the value of their savings.

I find it disturbing that the PM has forgotten altogether to address inflation. The budget did not even forecast the inflation rate for 2009.

Langkawit's mind

Pensiangan, Api Api next month

Pix: Dr Yee
Kota Kinabalu Election Court Judge David Wong Dak Wah will deliver on Sept 17, this year its judgement on the election petition by Pensiangan Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) division chief Danny Anthony Andipai.

Andipai, whose candadicy was rejected on the Feb 24, 2008 nomination day, filed the petition on April9, 2008 seeking the election of Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) president and Federal Rural and Regional Deputy Minister Tan Sri Joseph Kurup in Pensiangan be declared null an void.

Meanwhile, Judge Datuk Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahim will deliver judgement for the Api Api election petition on Sept 15, 2008.

The petition was filed on April 9, 2008 by Sabah PKR deputy head Christina Liew's agent Audrey Karen Barry, seeking to nullify Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) deputy president and Sabah Resources Development and Information Technology Minister Datuk Dr Yee Moh Chai's win in Api Api in the March 8, 2008 general elections.

In both cases, the petitioners sought to declare the elections' results null and void due to various breaches of the Election Offences Act 1954 and the Elections (Conduct of Election) Regulation 1981.

Dismissed with costs

2008/08/28

Election petitions for Tuaran, Kundasang dismissed
Reports by BERNAMA

KOTA KINABALU, THURS: The Election Court here today dismissed with costs, a petition challenging the election of former Sabah Mmnister Datuk Wilfred Mojilip Bumburing as the Tuaran MP in the last general election.

Justice Datuk Linton Albert also dismissed with costs the election petition challenging the result for the Kundasang state seat which was won by Barisan Nasional(BN)’s Dr Joachim Gunsalam.

In dismissing the Tuaran petition, Linton ruled that the election was carried out legally with no evidence to suggest fraudulence or corrupt practices as claimed.

“There is no reason to declare the election void because the several manifestations of bribery, corrupt and illegal practice alleged by the petitioner have not been proven,” he said.

Bumburing, who is UPKO Deputy President, of the BN won the seat with a majority of 6,622 votes, beating arch rival Sabah Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) head Ansari Abdullah and independent candidate Ajin Gagah.

The petition was filed by Ansari’s election agent, Lim Ching Ping.

In his 10-page judgment, Linton said the petition was grounded almost entirely on the distribution of hard cash ranging from RM50 to RM700, to parents of poor schoolchildren in schools throughout the constituency under the scheme, aptly called Kumpulan Wang Amanah Pelajar Miskin (KWAPM).

He said the element of “bargaining” had not been established, in respect of the corrupt practice of bribery, to the standard of beyond reasonable doubt.

He gave similiar reasoning in dismissing the election petition filed by defeated independent candidate for the Kundasang seat, Japiril Suhaimin.

Japiril, in asking the court to declare that Dr Gunsalam was not duly elected in the election, claimed that at several villages and schools in Kundasang, Dr Gunsalam or his agents had distributed money to poor students under the KWAPM (Poor Students Group Trust Fund).

Dr Gunsalam won the state seat, garnering 3,597 votes while Japiril secured 1,791 votes. Karim Adam, the PKR candidate, polled 1,180 votes.

God loves them more

Two-headed baby dies after fever
By Emily Cook Health Correspondent 28/08/2008

A two-headed baby born in Bangladesh has died after developing a fever and breathing difficulties.

The boy, named Kiron, died at home three days after being born by caesarean section weighing 5.5kg.

The baby was under police guard after 150,000 people went to the clinic to see the child, who they believed was a god.

Doctors advised the parents to transfer their baby to a hospital in the capital, Dhaka, but they did not have enough money to take him there