—and the players struggle to work out the rules

Mar.13.— Malaysia's ruling National Front suffered its biggest electoral setback since independence in 1957.  Though the coalition returned to power, it lost the two-thirds majority in Parliament it has enjoyed sin 1969 and held onto only eight of Malaysia's 13 state governments.  In one state, Penang, the opposition said it would no longer follow the New Economic Policy that discriminates in favour of the country's ethnic Malays.
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Before the election only one state, Kelantan, in the relatively backward north-east of the peninsula, was in opposition control. Now bigger and richer Penang, Selangor, Perak and Kedah have fallen ...

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