Malaysia

Pakatan MPs to use parliamentary strength to block unfair redelineation

KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 ― Pakatan Rakyat (PR) federal lawmakers have vowed to make full use of their increased parliamentary numbers to ensure constituencies are fairly redrawn when the Election Commission (EC) kicks off the redelineation exercise this year-end.

PKR’s Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli reminded that if the exercise involves an increase in ... Read More

Seri Setia assemblyman Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad arrives in the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court on May 17, 2013 to be charged over a Pakatan Rakyat rally held earlier this month. — Picture by Choo Choy May

Seri Setia assemblyman Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad arrives in the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court on May 17, 2013 to be charged over a Pakatan Rakyat rally held earlier this month. — Picture by Choo Choy May Read More

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Sarawak CM, exco, lawmakers now get paid triple

KUCHING, May 21 – Salaries of Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, his Cabinet and lawmakers were tripled today despite the Sarawak chief minister being linked to corruption by environmental pressure group Global ... Read More

Putrajaya tells Dong Zong to adapt for UEC approval

By Syed Jaymal Zahiid

PUTRAJAYA, May 21 – The United Chinese School Committees’ Association of Malaysia (Dong Zong) must be “prepared to make changes” and meet conditions set by the Ministry of Education if the Unified ... Read More

MACC panel wants ministers, MBs, banned from government projects

BY CLARA CHOOI
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 – The MACC’s Consultation and Corruption Prevention Panel (CCPP) proposed today that all government administrators and their family members at both federal and state levels be barred ... Read More

Non-paying Sabah foreigners incur RM21.7m government healthcare since 2007, RCI told

By Boo Su-Lyn

KOTA KINABALU, May 21 – The government has spent RM21.7 million for the past six years in healthcare on foreigners in Sabah who did not pay for their treatments, a Health Department official told the ... Read More

After elections, Najib has serious economic concerns on his plate

By Zurairi AR

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s newly re-elected Barisan Nasional (BN) government faces what the Financial Times today called the serious economic problem of weakening exports.Amid fears ... Read More

Ambiga, Bersih crew to pass baton to new leadership soon

BY CLARA CHOOI
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan and the rest of Bersih 2.0’s 20-member steering committee are soon expected to relinquish their posts to make way for new blood in the leadership of the ... Read More

Tee Siew Kiong on leave from MCA with immediate effect: Soi Lek

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 – Datuk Tee Siew Kiong is on leave from MCA with immediate effect following his controversial appointment as a Johor executive councillor, said president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi ... Read More

Not wrong to question BN’s ‘minority’ rule, Guan Eng tells Zahid Hamidi

BY CLARA CHOOI
ASSISTANT NEWS EDITOR

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — Malaysians have the right to question why the country’s electoral system allows a minority government to stay in power, Lim Guan Eng said today as he slammed the government’s ... Read More

Singaporean jailed seven days for reckless driving

JOHOR BAHARU, May 21 – A Singaporean man was sentenced to seven days’ jail and fined RM5,000 or five month’s jail for reckless driving and endangering the public by causing a collision involving the ... Read More

Use of handcuffs on Adam Adli part of SOP, say police

KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 – The use of handcuffs on detainees except for juvenile offenders is one of the police standard operating procedures (SOP), said Sentul police chief ACP Zakaria Pagan.He said ... Read More