PETALING JAYA: MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has hit out at Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim for equating PAS with Islam. Stressing that his criticism of PAS’ brand of hudud law was just that, he said it was not meant as an insult to Islam. “What is wrong with talking about [...]
MCA’s 59th annual general assembly, the last before the general election, ended as it began. Spirits and hopes were high, and so were their readiness to do battle for the party when the next general election arrives. IT was not like any other annual general meeting (AGM) for the 63-year-old MCA last Sunday. For the [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: More than 80,000 people have applied to join the MCA since the last general election. Between March 2008 and 2010, the party approved about 31,000 applications with 60% being women below the age of 40. Many people also applied to join the party in the past six months after the launching of the [...]
IT was Lim Bo Yew’s (pic) last MCA annual general meeting as he will be retiring as Pengkalan Chepa MCA division chief next year to make way for new faces. But the 77-year-old from Kelantan has never felt so satisfied with the party spirit and leadership until yesterday. Lim said this AGM was the best [...]
VETERAN MCA member Tan Kia Aik, 76, does not stand out from a sea of fellow party comrades clad in blue but his watercolour artwork reveals a hidden talent. Tan, who has completed up to 90 sketchbooks full of watercolour drawings, has depicted everything that strikes his fancy. This includes a life-like rendering of the [...]
MORE than a thousand of the 1,698 MCA central delegates stayed on till the very end at the one-day annual general meeting. Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek said this reflected their concern for the party as the assembly was the last before the 13th general election. The party president said the 72.53% turnout (from [...]
AN MCA delegate has voiced public concerns about crime incidents. Puchong delegate Liew Yew Fook from Selangor said Malaysians still had concerns about cases such as robbery and theft. “I hope more CCTVs will be fixed at strategic locations. We should also get primary school children to know more about this by setting up crime [...]
MCA has condemned the DAP for misleading the Chinese community over the issue of hudud law. This was one of 16 resolutions adopted by the party at its 59th annual general assembly. The party also condemned the Opposition’s incitement of hate and fear politics for political expediency at the expense of national unity. It fully [...]
MCA secretary-general Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha has expressed gratitude to Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak for agreeing to a RM30mil grant for the development of Chinese national-type secondary schools. “The Prime Minister gave an inspiring speech. It was very honest and his message is clear as what he said was from his heart,” he said. Kong [...]
PAKATAN Rakyat, which cannot even put its own house in order, is not fit to rule the country, said Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek. The MCA president said the three Pakatan component parties PKR, PAS and DAP had been in conflict over big and small matters. “They cannot agree over a common flag and symbol, [...]
