Anwar's wife seeks election
KUALA LUMPUR — The wife of Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim on Saturday entered the race for the parliamentary seat vacated by her husband's recent jailing over a much-criticised sodomy conviction.
Wan Azizah Wan Ismail, an Irish-trained medical doctor and mother of six, filed her nomination papers for the byelection in Anwar's constituency in the northern state of Penang, said Fahmi Fadzil, communications director for the People's Justice Party.