PETALING JAYA: A senior PPBM leader has launched a scathing attack on some of his Cabinet colleagues from Umno, describing them as warlords who were no better than “Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde”. However, special functions minister Redzuan Yusof stopped short of naming the ministers he likened to the two-faced…
PETALING JAYA: Former deputy international trade and industry minister Ong Kian Ming has given the government three simple ways to make Malaysia attractive for foreign direct investment (FDI) again. He said government agencies’ guidelines and goals for attracting investment needed to be continuously overhauled, pointing out that its definition of…
PETALING JAYA: Penang deputy chief minister P Ramasamy has told Kedah menteri besar Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor to extend an olive branch to Penang to resolve its raw water spat instead of continuing to provoke the state. The DAP man pointed out that Penang has come to Kedah’s aid by…
KOTA KINABALU: An analyst says the Sabah chapters of Umno and PPBM will continue to face pressure from the party’s peninsular leadership despite their move to work together in the next polls under Gabungan Rakyat Sabah (GRS). UiTM Sabah’s Tony Paridi Bagang said this pressure would come from negotiations for…
PETALING JAYA: The union of Islamic party PAS and Umno two years ago was a political romance that warmed the hearts of many Malays unhappy with the then ruling Pakatan Harapan coalition. The alliance of the two parties in Muafakat Nasional gave birth to the idea of uniting the Malay…
PETALING JAYA: Civil servants who are forced to quit early for health reasons will now have reasons to cheer as the government has set a much higher minimum number of years’ service to calculate their pension and gratuity. In a circular released a week ago, the Public Services Department (PSD)…
SHAH ALAM: The magistrates’ court here has issued an arrest warrant against the founder of Sugarbook application, Chan Eu Boon, 34, after he failed to appear for court mention and document submission today. Magistrate Sabreena Bakar@Bahari issued the arrest warrant following a request by deputy public prosecutor Aliff Asnaf Anuar Sharuddin. Aliff…
KUCHING: A political analyst does not expect the Sarawak Cabinet to include younger faces any time soon due to the “culture” in the state. James Chin of the University of Tasmania’s Asia Institute said although a “generational shift” is crucial to ensure positions of power are also held by younger…
KOTA KINABALU: Analysts say the Perikatan Nasional government did itself no favours by not ensuring automatic voter registration for 18-year-olds is implemented this year. Sabah UiTM’s Tony Paridi Bagang noted that the government has exposed itself to a free-for-all by the public, especially the opposition. “Public perceptions can be manipulated…
SHAH ALAM: A federal minister today defended the delay in implementing Undi18, pointing out that the next general election was only due to be held in 2023. “The next election is in 2023. Who promised this would be done by 2020 or 2021?” international trade and industry minister Azmin Ali…
PETALING JAYA: Dr Mahathir Mohamad has added to the growing criticisms in delaying the automatic registration of 18-year-olds as voters, saying the decision was made out of fear. “It is just their decision to not give 18-year-olds the right to vote because they fear the youth may turn against them,”…
PETALING JAYA: Malaysia has stalled in taking the next step towards services and innovation-based activities after making impressive strides towards becoming a manufacturing economy over the last few decades, the World Bank said today. With the Covid-19 pandemic expected to result in an increase in global trade and demand for…
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here will hear on May 20 Najib Razak’s application compelling related enforcement agencies to supply him additional documents to prepare his defence in the ongoing 1MDB corruption and money laundering charges. Judge Collin Lawrence Sequerah fixed the date to hear oral submissions after meeting Najib’s…
PETALING JAYA: Khairy Jamaluddin has criticised the Election Commission for delaying the implementation of Undi18 on grounds that the movement restrictions had hampered its planning and preparations. “It’s nonsensical. The movement control order was implemented a year ago,” the science, technology and innovation minister said in a statement. He also…
PETALING JAYA: DAP’s P Ramasamy has told Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP) director-general Abang Sallehuddin Abg Shokeran to resign if he fails to apologise over the use of the word “keling” in describing a person of Indian origin in the dictionary. This comes after Abang Sallehuddin said DBP would not…
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has fixed Oct 1 to hear a suit filed by defence minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob against a former Umno member and founding member of PPBM, Anina Saadudin, for defaming him in her Facebook postings. Lawyer Ragunath Kesavan, representing Ismail, said an injunction granted to…
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here today allowed a woman’s bid to challenge her conversion to Islam, carried out unilaterally by her father when she was a child. Judge Mariana Yahya delivered her decision after email correspondence between the woman’s lawyers and the Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC), representing the National Registration…
PUTRAJAYA: A unilateral conversion dispute appeal involving two minors born to a woman who embraced Islam and her Buddhist former husband was postponed after one of the judges recused himself as he knew the couple. Court of Appeal judge Wazeer Alam Mydin Meera volunteered the information at the outset of…
GEORGE TOWN: It was not just a double-storey semi-detached house in a high-end residential area, it was also a lab for high-end party drugs. But the police were not fooled. After a raid in the affluent Perai suburb, the cops crippled a lab believed to be a major producer of…
MELAKA: After a dozen years of waiting, the Melaka Zoo family is preparing to welcome new members to a group of six black panthers under its care – thanks to the movement control order (MCO). In sharing the good news, its Zoology Unit head Azman Ghazali said that Seri, an…