Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil has offered has offered to mediate on the issue of unpaid salary involving media practitioners in The Malaysian Insight (TMI) and The Vibes. “This is unacceptable. It shouldn’t be happening. We want a free press, but a free press is not free (without salary),” he told reporters in Busan, South Korea,…
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has called upon all the warring parties in the Middle East to de-escalate amid fears that it would become a global conflict “We must urgently prevent a dangerous cycle of action and reaction, which threatens to draw even more parties into the conflict, further deepening instability and broadening the…
The notion of having a Malay Chief Minister for Penang is a difficult proposition for DAP to consider, said Dr Ong Kian Ming on his podcast, Are We OK? last night. “Knowing the thinking of Penang DAP, it won’t be easy to propose a non-Chinese Chief Minister. Penang DAP is not ready for that,” he…
Pengerusi DAP Johor Liew Chin Tong hari ini menyangkal ulasan berkenaan peratusan keluar mengundi bukan Melayu rendah di DUN Mahkota oleh Institut Darul Ehsan. Menurut beliau isunya bukan pengundi bukan Melayu tidak keluar mengundi sebaliknya ramai pengundi muda tidak keluar mengundi. “Jika kita melihat kesemua saluran mengundi tanpa mengira kaum, satu atau dua saluran pengundi…
The little known partner in Perikatan Nasional, Gerakan raised the alarm yesterday, calling upon big brothers Pas and Bersatu to prepare for GE16 in the wake of the two by-election defeats – Mahkota and Nenggiri. Interestingly Gerakan president Senator Datuk Dr Dominic Lau also approached the subject of winning over non-Malay non-Muslim voters. “Many in…
While the lower non-Malay voter turnout in Mahkota was expected, it was also a signal that the Chinese community wanted to send out to Umno, said Professor James Chin, director of Governance Studies at the Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia at Sunway University. “They know that the by-election would not change the government. Having…
Penang Hindu Endowment Board (PHEB) chairman RSN Rayer described calls for him to step down as nothing more than politics and outright envy. He added that he would leave it to the DAP to decide on who should lead the board while maintaining he had done nothing wrong. Jelutong MP R.S.N. Rayer, who has led…
Pengiraan undi tidak rasmi di dalam pilihan raya kecil Mahkota menunjukkan calon BN Syed Hussien Syed Abdullah mendahului jumlah undi yang diperoleh dengan 3,119 undi berbanding calon PN Haizan Jaafar yang hanya memperoleh 1,088 undi. Jumlah undi yang dikira ini adalah undian pengundi awal. Dalam pada itu, peratusan keluar mengundi agak terjejas. Setakat jam 4…
Pas Supporters Wing (DHPP) information chief Balachandran Gopal Krishnan’s call for non-Muslims to vote for Pas rings hollow. He claimed that Pas brings justice as guaranteed by the Quran and Sunnah. “So, they don’t have any other choice. They used to say that (Prime Minister) Anwar Ibrahim was there, but he had clearly given false…
Chief Minister Chow Kon Yeow should decide on the question of whether the tenure of the Penang Hindu Endowment Board chairman RSN Rayer, said PHEB member Senator A. Lingeshwaran. “The chief minister should decide since the names nominated for PHEB was given by him and the appointment was done by the governor as stipulated in…
