Maznah Mohamad interviewed by The Straits Times – How average Malay Malaysian is faring today
It used to be that whenever it came to election time in Malaysia, the country's ruling party Umno would gets its community development workers to fan out to all the hamlets on bicycles and on foot to take the political temperature and assure villagers that Umno was the best doctor for them, taking care of their births, deaths and everything in between. But then village youth began migrating en masse to towns from the 1980s and Umno lost these rural forts.
By CHEONG Suk-Wai, The Straits Times, 1 June 2010