Sex, videotape and the underworld

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A clash of the titans seems to be shaping up as the verbal scuffle between MCA president Ong Tee Kiat and his estranged deputy, Chua Soi Lek, continues to pick up steam on the airwaves.

In a sense, Ong has taken over the helm in the MCA at the worst of times. He has inherited one of the oldest premier political parties that had been so battered by the political tsunami last year that its very relevance in Malaysian politics is now in doubt.

The entire MCA membership must be suffering a pandemic of low morale up and down the entire Malayan peninsula. Large chunks of their former electoral real estate has been overrun and lost to the Pakatan Rakyat coalition, especially the DAP. Their positions of official influence and sources of patronage in five state governments have been wiped out.

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