TUARAN: Parti Bersatu Sabah (PBS) is ready to seize the Tuaran parliamentary seat for the ruling GRS coalition at the next general election, PBS president Maximus Ongkili said today. He said his party was confident of being able to snatch the seat from Upko based on PBS’s strong support in…
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 1,239,194 children aged five to 11, or 34.9% in the age group, have received their first dose of Covid-19 vaccine under the national immunisation programme for children as of yesterday. As for adolescents aged 12-17, according to the CovidNow website, a total of 2,842,480 individuals…
PETALING JAYA: Tunku Azizah Hospital (HTA) in Kuala Lumpur made history yesterday when its doctors successfully performed surgery on a pair of premature conjoined twins weighing 2.7kg. HTA paediatric surgery consultant Dr Zakaria Zahari said such surgeries were usually carried out when the babies were three to six months old.…
SHAH ALAM: DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang announced that he was quitting politics for good at the party’s national congress held here today. Lim, 81, said he is withdrawing from the race for a seat in the central executive committee (CEC) at today’s election. Lim had been in the CEC…
SHAH ALAM: The memorandum of understanding (MoU) that Pakatan Harapan (PH) signed with the federal government last September will be “finished and ended” if the anti-hopping law is not tabled as promised, says DAP’s outgoing secretary-general Lim Guan Eng. PH had insisted that the government enact an anti-hopping law by…
PETALING JAYA: Questions about Lim Guan Eng’s successor as party secretary-general, the party’s stand on communal issues and multiracialism, and its performance in federal politics are expected to feature at its annual congress to be held today. Lim, who turned 62 in December, has held the secretary-general’s post since 2004.…
PETALING JAYA: Umno Supreme Council member Johari Ghani, a former second finance minister, is worried about the deteriorating economy and its continued trajectory. Saying the decline needed to be reversed or people would continue to suffer, Johari outlined the need of the hour: political stability. In addition to this, he…
KOTA KINABALU: Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS) would be taking a gamble should it decide to allow Peter Anthony’s new party, Parti Kesejahteraan Demokratik Masyarakat (KDM) into its fold, says an analyst. Sabah UiTM senior lecturer Tony Paridi Bagang said KDM could be a double-edged sword for the ruling coalition as…
PETALING JAYA: The 15th general election should be expedited to restore political stability so that the nation can get back on track to growth and prosperity, and people’s lives can improve, said Umno Supreme Council member Johari Ghani. Taking a statesman-like stance, Johari said political stability was more important than…
GEORGE TOWN: Personality politics can no longer swing votes at the polls as the electorate has become more discerning, says former Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli. He gave an example where following Pakatan Harapan’s massive losses over a few elections, there have been calls to have certain leaders to be brought…
KUALA LUMPUR: The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP) agreement has come into force for Malaysia today, paving the way for the country to integrate into the world’s largest free trade agreement (FTA) that involves 15 countries, with a total population of more than 2.2 billion. The RCEP represents a significant…
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has filed an application to an arbitration court in France to set aside a US$14.92 billion (RM62.59 billion) award to the heirs of the last Sulu sultan. Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob said the descendants’ claims, via an arbitration court, were illegitimate and unlawful. It was previously…
KUALA LUMPUR: The government is expected to collect more than RM1 billion in windfall profit tax levy in 2022 based on the projected average crude palm oil price of RM4,250 per tonne and the production level of 19 million tonnes. Plantation industries and commodities minister Zuraida Kamaruddin said the palm…
PETALING JAYA: There is a movement within Umno paying off the grassroots to get them to push for the party’s polls to be held before the next general election, claims Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Addressing the 2,666 delegates from across the country at today’s Umno general assembly, Zahid also…
KUALA LUMPUR: Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has claimed that Pakatan Harapan, which he did not name, is out to “kill” the party with the memorandum of understanding it signed with the government. Speaking at the Umno general assembly today, Zahid told the delegates that the party’s opponents “have never…
KUALA LUMPUR: The home minister said the authorities could not block M Indira Gandhi’s former husband, Muhammad Riduan Abdullah, from buying two vehicles seven years ago as there was no court order to stop the transactions. In a parliamentary reply to Kasthuri Patto (PH-Batu Kawan), Hamzah Zainudin said Riduan, now…
PETALING JAYA: There were 1,669 new hospital admissions involving Covid-19 cases yesterday, the health ministry said. Of this, 995 cases were in Category 1 and 2 while 674 were in Category 3, 4 and 5. Selangor had the highest number of new admissions with 277, followed by Johor (184) and…
PETALING JAYA: Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob will eventually give in to Umno’s demand for a general election (GE15) this year, a political analyst said. Universiti Sains Malaysia’s Ahmad Fauzi Abdul Hamid said this would likely happen after the expiry of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) between the government and…
PETALING JAYA: Penang deputy chief minister P Ramasamy has called on religious affairs minister Idris Ahmad to respect the law after Idris said yesterday the Federal Court ruling requiring consent from both parents in converting a minor to Islam was only an “interpretation” of the Federal Constitution. Stating that it…
PETALING JAYA: An analyst has described Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan’s speech at the party’s general assembly as “very surprising” for its call for moderation, diversity and the need to ensure non-Malay support for Umno. Azmi Hassan of Akademi Nusantara told FMT he saw it as a brave address aimed…