{"id":2178,"date":"2009-02-02T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=2178"},"modified":"2009-02-25T22:32:44","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T14:32:44","slug":"1889-of-two-too-different-interpretations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/?p=2178","title":{"rendered":"[1889] Of two too different interpretations"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amid the noise that is Perak,[1]<\/sup><\/a><\/a> other equally if not more important things are creeping under the carpet. One of them is about Sabah.<\/p>\n

In Malaysiakini:<\/p>\n

The Philippine government has recognised Sulu Sultan Esmail Dalus II’s announcement over the weekend that he will ‘drop’ the suzerainty claim to Sabah since it is ‘complicated’. [Sulu sultan ‘drops’ Sabah suzerainty claim<\/a><\/em>. Joe Fernandez. Malaysiakini. February 2 2009]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But in Philippine Daily Inquirer:<\/p>\n

The Sultanate of Sulu on Saturday declared it would assert its property rights over Sabah (formerly North Borneo) regardless of the unresolved territorial dispute between the Philippines and Malaysia. [Sulu sultan asserts rights over Sabah<\/em><\/a>. Erika Sauler. Philippine Daily Inquirer via Asia News Network. February 1 2009]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Honestly, what did the man really say?<\/p>\n

I eagerly await for response from the Foreign Ministry.<\/p>\n

\"Mohd \"Mohd \"Mohd<\/p>\n

[1]<\/sup><\/a> <\/a> \u2014 Perak\u2019s problem over political defections is stirring up a huge debate on constitutional law in Malaysia among its experts.<\/small><\/p>\n

Several lawyers and election veterans have expressed differing opinions on whether or not Perak State Legislative Assembly Speaker V Sivakumar, has the right to force by-elections in Behrang and Changkat Jering, the two state seats said to have been vacated by their incumbent assemblymen while locked in a public dispute that puts the state government at risk of collapse.<\/small><\/p>\n

The argument hangs on the validity of the undated and pre-signed letters of resignation from the state\u2019s two PKR assemblymen. [Perak\u2019s headache turning into a constitutional nightmare<\/em><\/a>. Debra Chong. Shannon Teoh. The Malaysian Insider. February 2 2009]<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Amid the noise that is Perak,[1] other equally if not more important things are creeping under the carpet. One of them is about Sabah. In Malaysiakini: The Philippine government has recognised Sulu Sultan Esmail Dalus II’s announcement over the weekend that he will ‘drop’ the suzerainty claim to Sabah since it is ‘complicated’. [Sulu sultan […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[66,67],"class_list":["post-2178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asean","tag-sabah","tag-sulu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2178"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2180,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2178\/revisions\/2180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maddruid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}