KUALA LUMPUR: Bersatu information chief Wan Saiful Wan Jan has defended his party’s demand for the deputy prime minister’s post, claiming it was not a new request but an unfulfilled promise. Wan Saiful said the deputy prime minister’s post was part of the agreement for Perikatan Nasional (PN) to support…
KUALA LUMPUR: Rosmah Mansor’s lawyers are objecting to Gopal Sri Ram’s bid to dismiss her judicial review application to challenge his appointment as senior deputy public prosecutor in the RM1.25 billion solar hybrid project. Lawyer Akberdin Abdul Kader, a member of Rosmah’s legal team, said they had written a letter…
PETALING JAYA: Baling MP Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim hopes the Musang King durian plantation project in Gunung Inas, Kedah, will be cancelled due to claims that it is partly to blame for the floods in his constituency yesterday. He said he and the residents in the surrounding area had previously…
PETALING JAYA: PKR’s Farhash Wafa Salvador Rizal Mubarak has hit back at Rafizi Ramli over the recent party polls after the former Pandan MP urged members to ignore the “noise” made by defeated candidates. Earlier, Rafizi, the incoming PKR deputy president, said it was unfortunate that those who lost could…
PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob says the government is working on aiding victims of the floods in Baling, Kedah, as soon as possible. Ismail, who is on an official visit to Turkiye, said he has instructed his political secretary, Mohammad Anuar, to represent him and assist the flood…
PETALING JAYA: Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has called for quick action by the government to rescue victims of the floods in Baling, Kedah. The PKR president warned Putrajaya against repeating its slow response to the floods in the peninsula in December last year. “I call for swift action to be…
PETALING JAYA: An environmental and forestry researcher has called on the Selangor government to amend its forestry laws so that the degazetting of forest reserves requires the approval of the state assembly. Teckwyn Lim of the University of Nottingham, said this would have prevented a development project purportedly involving part…
KUALA LUMPUR: No active logging activity has been reported in the Gunung Inas forest reserve area that could have resulted in the headwater phenomenon and flash floods in Baling yesterday, says energy and natural resources Takiyuddin Hassan. He said a report by the forestry department had confirmed that there was…
KUALA LUMPUR: The star witness in Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman’s money laundering and criminal breach of trust (CBT) trial told the High Court here the Muar MP asked him to dispose of part of the RM1 million Bersatu funds. The RM1 million was in Syed Saddiq’s possession. Former Bersatu…
PETALING JAYA: The bodies of three family members were found at Kampung Iboi in Kupang, Baling, Kedah today after they were swept away by floodwaters yesterday. The bodies of two of the victims – a pregnant woman and her mother-in-law – were found together under a pile of wood debris…
PETALING JAYA: The outlook for the ringgit is seen mixed but it may end on a firmer note by the end of the year due to improving growth in China and on anticipation of a pause in the US interest rate hike. A strong recovery of the Malaysian economy will…
PETALING JAYA: Segambut MP Hannah Yeoh has warned that children will bear the brunt in the years to come if the government does not solve the problem of the rising cost of living. The former deputy women, family and community development minister said the price hikes had affected many low-…
PETALING JAYA: The approval given to the proposed Petaling Jaya Dispersal Elevated Highway (PJD Link) project is subject to further negotiations, says the works ministry. The ministry said the project was approved in principle by the Cabinet on Nov 12, 2017 and a concession agreement was signed last April 5.…
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has turned down Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s bid to obtain an injunction against Dr Mahathir Mohamad pending the disposal of his lawsuit against the former prime minister. Zahid had sued Mahathir in April for claiming that he had sought Mahathir’s help to get his corruption…
PETALING JAYA: Johor menteri besar Onn Hafiz Ghazi was called as a witness by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) in its hearing on land swaps made under the defence ministry. PAC chairman Wong Kah Woh said Onn Hafiz, who was the political secretary to then defence minister Hishammuddin Hussein from…
BALING: Kedah menteri besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor wants the villages affected by floods in Baling to be declared as Level I or II emergency response areas to speed up aid by state and federal agencies. He said that according to the government directive, the power to declare Level III…
PETALING JAYA: Perikatan Nasional needs all the allies it can get to challenge Umno and Barisan Nasional, according to political analyst Oh Ei Sun of the Singapore Institute of International Affairs. He said PN must be open to working with any party willing to cooperate, including Parti Bangsa Malaysia (PBM),…
PETALING JAYA: The Selangor government will be setting up a council to coordinate socio-economic efforts targeted at the Indian community and Indian-based businesses in the state. Klang MP Charles Santiago said this was among several of the state government’s commitments to the community announced by menteri besar Amirudin Shari at…
PETALING JAYA: BN deputy chairman Mohamad Hasan said his call for the Sabah Barisan Nasional leadership to put forward a New Malaysia Agreement was merely a suggestion after the proposal was dismissed as “crazy”. He said that in the end, it was up to the relevant stakeholders to find the…
PETALING JAYA: A business group has called for more clarity about the government’s decision to allow flexible working arrangements from Sept 1. The Malaysian International Chamber of Commerce and Industry said the government should have given more thought and carried out an in-depth study before implementing the idea. The group’s…