PETALING JAYA: DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang’s decision to contest in the Gelang Patah seat in Johor is typical of the party’s “Chinese killing off the Chinese” agenda, said Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek. The MCA president said that DAP knew it could not topple the Barisan Nasional government in Johor and was pitting [...]
JOHOR BARU: Leaders from 16 Johor DAP branches are out to topple Dr Boo Cheng Hau as Johor DAP chairman, reported major Chinese dailies. The group, led by Johor DAP vice-chairman Ong Kow Meng, accused Dr Boo of being a dictator who did not care about party members, China Press reported. Ong said there was [...]
PETALING JAYA: Datuk Phahrolrazi Zawawi, the No. 2 PAS man in Kedah, was “locked in” in a religious school compound for two hours to prevent him from speaking at a ceramah. Phahrolrazi said he was on the way to the ceramah in Kampung Kabu which is located in the state constituency held by Kedah Mentri [...]
DAP veteran leader Lim Kit Siang will contest in Johor, confirming speculation that he will go to the southern state to boost the party’s chances in the general election. Lim, however, is tight-lipped on the constituency he will contest in. There had been talk that he was looking at the prospects of contesting in either [...]
Himpunan Hijau chairman Wong Tack should have declared his political intentions from day one, said PKR MP Fuziah Salleh. The Kuantan MP said Wong, who would be contesting in Bentong under DAP, should not have dragged in the whole environmental non-governmental organisation against the rare earth plant Lynas in Gebeng as his platform to be [...]
The tussle for the Bentong parliamentary seat between PKR and DAP has heated up with both sides standing firm on their right to put their candidate in the parliamentary seat. The furore started after DAP announced Himpunan Hijau leader Wong Tack as its candidate for the seat in the general election. The decision stunned PKR, [...]
The Selangor Government will soon face a lawsuit from a group of housewives from Ampang and Pandan Indah for failing to fulfil its manifesto promises in the last general election. Lawyer Kamaruddin Ahmad, who is leading the group, said that he would be filing the suit on behalf of about 2,000 housewives at the Shah [...]
The Penang state government has failed to provide convincing answers to the controversial RM6.3mil mega project, said activist Ong Eu Soon. Ong said Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng had during a dialogue showed a presentation slide that the first request for proposals (RFP) for the project was called as “per schedule” while a second RFP [...]
Demonstrations were held in 10 locations throughout Penang by several non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to highlight their unhappiness over Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng‘s failure to build affordable houses in the state. The simultaneous demonstrations organised under the Sekretariat Rakyat Bersatu Pulau Pinang umbrella were held in Jelutong, Teluk Kumbar, Permatang Pauh, Kepala Batas, Tasek Gelugor [...]
Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has denied being the man in a series of pictures on the Internet showing two men groping and kissing each other. The photos, which were put up on several blogs, were purportedly screen grabs of a video. Approached by reporters after a dialogue session organised by the Anwar Ibrahim [...]
