Barisan Wins Malaysia's By-Election
As expected, Malaysia's Barisan Nasional Wednesday won a hotly contested by-election in the Kuala Besut Assembly district in Terengganu in eastern Malaysia, preserving the Barisan's 17-15 majority in the Terengganu statehouse by a strong margin of more than 2,500 votes.
The win allows Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak, under fire for the national coalition…
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