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	<title>Lim Kit Siang &#187; Farish Noor</title>
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		<title>The road to Malaysia is sometimes paved with grammatical errors</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2012/02/08/the-road-to-malaysia-is-sometimes-paved-with-grammatical-errors/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2012/02/08/the-road-to-malaysia-is-sometimes-paved-with-grammatical-errors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[— Farish A. Noor The Malaysian Insider Feb 07, 2012 FEB 7 — There are times when I can only assume that Malaysians have so much free time on their hands that they don’t know what to do with it. Today, as I was marking my students’ book reviews, I chanced upon an item on [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>A year-end look at Malaysia from afar</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2011/12/23/a-year-end-look-at-malaysia-from-afar/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2011/12/23/a-year-end-look-at-malaysia-from-afar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:37:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[— Farish Noor The Malaysian Insider Dec 22, 2011 DEC 22 — I began my academic career more than a decade ago — and I can wryly state, with a smirk on my face, that my career began in the previous century. From the outset the subjects that I have taught have been in keeping [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Toying with history again in Malaysia</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2011/09/12/toying-with-history-again-in-malaysia/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2011/09/12/toying-with-history-again-in-malaysia/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mahathir]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=15571</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[-Farish A. Noor The Malaysian Insider Sep 12, 2011 SEPT 12 — In all honesty, I really have many other things to do than waste my time commenting on what has to be one of the most inane and counter-productive debates in Malaysian politics today. Yet as the tide of silliness gains strength all around [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Historical Reconstruction Again?</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2011/09/05/historical-reconstruction-again/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2011/09/05/historical-reconstruction-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:56:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[History]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=15509</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A Noor 5 September 2011 And so, for reasons that are both complex and irritating, the past is being dragged into the present yet again; while we Malaysians bury our heads in the sand and neglect the future. By now most of us will be familiar with yet another controversy-in-a-teacup that has grabbed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Still dreaming of a Malaysia to call Home</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2011/08/12/still-dreaming-of-a-malaysia-to-call-home/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2011/08/12/still-dreaming-of-a-malaysia-to-call-home/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:11:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nation building]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=15248</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor &#124; August 12, 2011 The Malaysian Insider AUG 12 — A Malaysian ambassador once asked me if, after living and working abroad for more than 2½ decades, I still kept my Malaysian citizenship. And I answered yes. He was surprised somewhat and added: “Thank God, at least we haven’t lost you [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Revisiting the Spin of Malaysia and Indonesia as ‘Moderate’ Muslim states</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/11/03/revisiting-the-spin-of-malaysia-and-indonesia-as-%e2%80%98moderate%e2%80%99-muslim-states/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/11/03/revisiting-the-spin-of-malaysia-and-indonesia-as-%e2%80%98moderate%e2%80%99-muslim-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=6525</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor November 2nd, 2009. It is now ‘moderate’ season once again when the leaders of the developed Western world are on the lookout for moderate Muslim states and leaders to engage in dialogue with as strategic, economic and political allies and partners. Needless to say, the leaders and governments of the Muslim [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Injecting Reason Back Into Indonesia-Malaysia Relations</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/09/10/injecting-reason-back-into-indonesia-malaysia-relations/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/09/10/injecting-reason-back-into-indonesia-malaysia-relations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:34:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Foreign]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=5999</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor It would appear as if Reason and Rationality have gone on holiday in Southeast Asia recently: In Malaysia a group of angry residents who wished to protest against the construction of a Hindu temple in their neighborhood decided to demonstrate their anger by marching to the government offices in Selangor with [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>Punishing the Body or the Person? Why Some Cannot Accept Physical Punishments</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/08/28/punishing-the-body-or-the-person-why-some-cannot-accept-physical-punishments/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/08/28/punishing-the-body-or-the-person-why-some-cannot-accept-physical-punishments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=5884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor In his book ‘Torture and Modernity: Self, Society and State in Modern Iran’ (1994), the scholar Darius Rejali looks at how the processes of torture and punishment have evolved over the centuries in Iran, from the period of the Qajar dynasty all the way to the regime of the Shah and [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>So who has ‘Misunderstood’ the ISA?</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/08/01/so-who-has-%e2%80%98misunderstood%e2%80%99-the-isa/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/08/01/so-who-has-%e2%80%98misunderstood%e2%80%99-the-isa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ISA]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=5459</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor It is now being claimed by some that the Internal Security Act has been ‘misunderstood’ by a significant section of the Malaysian public, and if only they can be made to ‘understand’ it they would come to realise that it is after all a good tool that ought to be kept [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Politics, Power and the Violence of History</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/07/30/politics-power-and-the-violence-of-history/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/07/30/politics-power-and-the-violence-of-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=5438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A Noor The guillotine, it ought to be remembered, was originally conceived of as a safe, clean, efficient and ironically ‘humane’ method of murdering people when it was first introduced. Dubbed the ‘revolutionary razor’ when it was first used to execute the enemies of the state at the outset of the French revolution, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Arresting the Slide in Our Public Institutions</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/07/22/arresting-the-slide-in-our-public-institutions/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/07/22/arresting-the-slide-in-our-public-institutions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Corruption]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Good Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teoh Beng Hock]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=5320</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor The term &#8216;Asubhabhavana&#8217; is familiar with many historians of Buddhist theology by now, for it refers to a meditative mode of introspection that has become ritual practice over the centuries. In layman&#8217;s terms, Asubhabhavana refers to the simple process of self-reflection and mental back-tracking where one contemplates the manifold paths, steps [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Governance between Idealism and Realism</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/07/22/governance-between-idealism-and-realism/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/07/22/governance-between-idealism-and-realism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pakatan Rakyat]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=5307</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A Noor Malaysia-watchers would have noticed by now that cracks have begun to appear in the opposition People&#8217;s Alliance (Pakatan Rakyat) and that recent events have given some cause for worry. Notably, public spats and open rows among PR leaders in state assemblies have not given us any reason to be confident about [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>Empathy and Myopia: How Malaysians No Longer Understand One Another</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/07/15/empathy-and-myopia-how-malaysians-no-longer-understand-one-another/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/07/15/empathy-and-myopia-how-malaysians-no-longer-understand-one-another/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=5151</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor Malaysia is once again landed with yet another predictable mini-controversy (as there are too many controversies at the moment, this one has been relegated somewhat) involving a report that was purported written by two Muslims for the magazine al-Islam. The report was written by the two Muslims who claimed that their [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>“You Are Not Qualified To Interpret my Religious Text”: How to Respond to Attempts to Close the Public Domain- Part 3</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/26/%e2%80%9cyou-are-not-qualified-to-interpret-my-religious-text%e2%80%9d-how-to-respond-to-attempts-to-close-the-public-domain-part-3/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/26/%e2%80%9cyou-are-not-qualified-to-interpret-my-religious-text%e2%80%9d-how-to-respond-to-attempts-to-close-the-public-domain-part-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=4840</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor These days we often hear the accusation that someone or another is doing something nasty by interpreting a book or text out of context. The common refrain that follows goes something like this: “Who are you to interpret our holy book on your own without the guidance of our supreme religious [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>“You Are Not Qualified To Talk My Religion”: How to Respond to Attempts to Close the Public Domain- Part 2</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/18/%e2%80%9cyou-are-not-qualified-to-talk-my-religion%e2%80%9d-how-to-respond-to-attempts-to-close-the-public-domain-part-2/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/18/%e2%80%9cyou-are-not-qualified-to-talk-my-religion%e2%80%9d-how-to-respond-to-attempts-to-close-the-public-domain-part-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=4688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor If I were to tell someone that I don’t like Satay, loathe batik shirts and cant stand keroncong music, does it follow from that that I hate Malay culture in toto? Now one would have to be deliberately and consciously paralysingly stupid to believe that, by assuming that the rejection of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>“You Are Not Qualified To Talk About Islam”: How to Respond to Attempts to Close the Public Domain</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/16/%e2%80%9cyou-are-not-qualified-to-talk-about-islam%e2%80%9d-how-to-respond-to-attempts-to-close-the-public-domain/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/16/%e2%80%9cyou-are-not-qualified-to-talk-about-islam%e2%80%9d-how-to-respond-to-attempts-to-close-the-public-domain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 10:43:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=4661</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor “You are not qualified to talk about Islam”. How many times have I heard and read that same line, again and again? And more often than not, the same sentence is uttered or written by precisely the sort of self-trained autodidact whose own knowledge of Islam came from whatever he or [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>28</slash:comments>
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		<title>Another Lesson in PAS History: The Malaysian Public Does&#8217;nt Like Extremists</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/11/another-lesson-in-pas-history-the-malaysian-public-doesnt-like-extremists/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/11/another-lesson-in-pas-history-the-malaysian-public-doesnt-like-extremists/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:45:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAS]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=4540</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor The repercussions of the somewhat clumsy attempt by some sections of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS to call for the investigation, and possibly banning, of the Muslim women’s rights group Sisters in Islam are still being felt today. Many questions have arisen in the wake of the proposal that was passed [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>72</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Soon We Forget: Malaysia’s Ahistorical Politics</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/10/how-soon-we-forget-malaysia%e2%80%99s-ahistorical-politics/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/10/how-soon-we-forget-malaysia%e2%80%99s-ahistorical-politics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:28:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[UMNO]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.limkitsiang.com/?p=4528</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor How soon we forget. Malaysian politics is characterized by a curious form of ahistoricity and a willful neglect of history in general. The contribution of the diverse communities of Malaysia to the country’s nation-building process is often forgotten in the official narratives of the country, the role of women in our [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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		<title>Demonisation and the Politics of Banning : Why PAS Should Look To Its Own History</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/08/demonisation-and-the-politics-of-banning-why-pas-should-look-to-its-own-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 06:40:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor The recent general assembly of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS has left us with a rather mixed serving of results and outcomes, some of which will linger for a while and some of which may prove harder to digest than others. Despite the re-iteration of PAS’s stand vis a vis the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PAS finding its way still : Some Observations on the Speech by PAS President Ustaz Hadi Awang</title>
		<link>http://blog.limkitsiang.com/2009/06/05/pas-finding-its-way-still-some-observations-on-the-speech-by-pas-president-ustaz-hadi-awang/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kit</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farish Noor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[PAS]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By Farish A. Noor The opening speech to the 55th Muktamar of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party PAS should be read closely and given the consideration that is due to it, particularly as it comes from the party President himself, Ustaz Hadi Awang, and in some respects gives an accurate reflection of the state of the [...]]]></description>
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