Archive - 27 March 2004

If the premier wants to give credence to his administration's image of transparency, accountability and integrity, he should consider all complaints raised on the conduct of the general election, and not dismiss them as coming from disgruntled people, says the local anti-corruption body.

There are no changes in six ministries in the new cabinet line-up while others experience a major revamp.

The MCA should be happy that it has gained three new cabinet posts but there are concerns that the "gains" by Team A at the expense of Team B could bring the ghosts of the feuding years back.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi also warns that ministers found guilty by the anti-corruption agency will have to leave.

Can the rules of the game be changed midway? Certainly not in the case of the recent general election. But it happened and now the Election Commission must clear the mess.

A Unimas official says that Sarawak has been given more than a substantial share in the new cabinet of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

DAP chairperson Lim Kit Siang and Keadilan deputy president Dr Syed Husin Ali say that Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had failed to live up to his promise of picking a clean cabinet.

Former Negeri Sembilan menteri besar Mohamed Isa Abdul Samad is among the new faces introduced by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to the cabinet today.

The first place for Pak Lah to start getting rid of corruption, says SIM KWANG YANG, would be a drastic review of all the laws, institutions, and practices concerned with general elections .

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's new cabinet has failed to live up to its initial promise. It is still the case of old wine in a new bottle.

It was first introduced in 1994 whereby leaders of Sabah's three main communities get a two-year term each to be chief minister. After 10 years, that system is history.

Premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi brings in a number of new ministers, retains most of the old faces and streamlines about five ministries. However MCA vice president Chua Jui Meng has been dropped.

Malaysia's longest-serving chief minister says no pressure from any quarters can make him quit and that he would only go after ensuring "that everything is okay" in Sarawak.

The cabinet line up includes fourteen new ministers.

A by-election in on the horizon in Penang following a feud between Prai state assemblyperson Dr K Rajapathy and MIC president S Samy Vellu over who should be the party's sole representative in the state exco.