The voter turnout for the Bagan Pinang by-election is expected be more than 80% , the Election Commission said. EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof reminded voters to cast their vote early once polling begins at 8am, adding that intermittent rain is expected here today. He said party supporters should stay [...]
PORT DICKSON: Police want PAS vice president Salahuddin Ayob to give his statement over allegations that party supporters were badly beaten up by Umno Youth members early Thursday morning. State police chief SAC I Datuk Osman Salleh said bloggers from Malaysian Insider and Harakah Daily should also assist in the probe as they had [...]
Tan Sri Mohd Isa Samad is on course to return to active politics as Bagan Pinang assemblyman. He has been unafraid to take tough questions during the campaign, which has won him the grudging respect of the new media. TAN Sri Mohd Isa Samad’s wristwatch told him it was almost 11pm, so the seasoned [...]
PORT DICKSON: Barisan Nasional component party members who jump ship to join the Opposition almost always return to the fold, observed Tan Sri Isa Samad. Isa, the Barisan candidate for the Bagan Pinang by-election and a former Umno vice-president, said these members became emotional and made the wrong decision by joining other parties. [...]
The gruelling campaign has not slowed down Tan Sri Mohd Isa Samad, 59, who continues to push forward in the last lap leading to Sunday’s by-election. The Barisan Nasional candidate, a former Negri Sembilan mentri besar, is going all out to drive home the point that the people, especially fishermen and farming folk, have [...]
Mute 67-year-old Yusof Puteh, an ardent supporter of Barisan Nasional doing his bit for candidate Tan Sri Mohd Isa Samad yesterday. Motorists who saw him cycling near Port Dickson town, honked to give their support. – ART CHEN / The Star Winning the Bagan Pinang by-election is more important to Barisan Nasional than [...]
The Government has approved RM480,000 in allocation for three Chinese schools in Port Dickson. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who is in charge of the Education Ministry, said the allocation were RM180,000 for SJKC Chung Hwa Teluk Kemang, RM150,000 for SJKC St Leonard and RM150,000 for SJKC Sua Betong, all of which [...]
Former local PKR strongman Abdul Manap Sahadin will quit the party along with some 300 members tonight to join Umno. He will personally hand over his forms to deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin at Dataran Teluk Kemang. Abdul Manap, who contested the Teluk Kemang parliamentary and Chuah state seats in the 2004 [...]
Postal votes: Army personnel casting their votes at Pusasda in Port Dickson yesterday. Police personnel also began casting their ballots at the district police headquarters. Postal voting for soldiers and policemen began at two centres here yesterday for the Bagan Pinang state by-election. The soldiers cast their votes at the Army Basic [...]
General workers in the plantation sector earn a mininum RM600 a month, not RM200 as claimed by the Opposition. At times the harvesters can take home RM1,000 and this can go up to RM2,700 if they are productive. Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam said the Opposition was trying to hoodwink the [...]
