The swing that caught everyone by surprise


TAN Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon looked like the world had collapsed around him on Saturday night. In a way, it had. 

The state government he had led for 18 years had been defeated by the combined might of the DAP, PKR and PAS. His own Gerakan party candidates had been wiped out in Penang and the party was quite out in the cold nationally. 

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