Archive - 6 May 2006

It is an uphill but necessary task to gather momentum and reinstate the third vote to address grassroots' grouses effectively.

The musical documentary which was the centre of controversy in a Malay daily for the past few days has been banned to safeguard 'public interest'.

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak berkata, ia sejajar dengan sasaran kerajaan menyediakan 10 peratus guru berijazah bagi sekolah menengah dan 50 peratus bagi sekolah rendah menjelang 2010.

The state's ruling coalition is injecting new blood, including four women, into its line-up for the May 20 polls. The opposition is also finalising matters ahead of nomination day.

Ketua Menteri Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud akan mempertahankan kerusi Balingian. Manakala lapan Adun tidak dicalonkan semula atas permintaan mereka sendiri.

Former Singaporean student activist Tan Wah Piow who went into self exile in the 1970s talks about Lee Hsien Loong's premiership, the youths and the general election.

Ketua pembangkang itu berkata, perhatian sepatutnya pada Mohd Said Yusuf yang didakwa telah menyalahguna kuasanya selaku seorang ahli Parlimen dan bukan pada Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad.

Presiden PAS itu mengharapkan beliau terus memainkan peranan aktif dalam mereformasikan Parlimen Malaysia supaya menjadi pihak kerajaan yang boleh mengkritik kerajaan.

Mafrel mendakwa ada yang tidak kena dengan senarai pemilih bagi pilihanraya negeri Sarawak selepas ianya menyemak senarai berkenaan bagi kawasan Kuching, Sibu dan Miri.

The PAS president hopes that Johor Baharu MP will not be disciplined for supporting an opposition motion in Parliament.

As the outgoing Backbenchers Club chair Shahrir Abdul Samad receive praise and brickbats, most people have forgotten why he resigned in the first place.

Mafrel says that based on their findings of the electoral rolls covering Kuching, Sibu and Miri, many discrepancies were detected.

Mungkin kelantangan bekas Pesuruhjaya Suhakam, Prof Mohd Hamdan Adnan membuat kritikan berhubung isu hak asasi manusia menyebabkan beliau tidak dilantik semula.

Malaysian women's status will be known later this month when the government presents a report card on CEDAW at the United Nations.

Ketua Whip Barisan Nasional itu berkata, Datuk Shahrir Samad mengakui bahawa dari segi prinsip sebagai ahli BN beliau tidak patut menyokong usul pembangkang.

Katanya, ia telah dibangunkan sebagai kawasan kediaman tanpa mengambil kira soal merawat air larut resap (leachate) yang menggugat kesihatan dan keselesaan penduduk terbabit.

Most people have never dreamed of being an election candidate, and know next to nothing about what goes on inside these strange creatures.

Parti Tindakan rakyat (PAP) dijangka tidak menghadapi masalah kembali berkuasa tetapi kebanyakan penganalisis berpendapat persoalannya ialah sebesar mana mandat untuk Lee dan pasukannya.

Perhaps it is former Suhakam commissioner Prof Mohd Hamdan Adnan's stinging criticism over human rights issue that brought the axe down.

The Malaysian man was charged with murdering two Japanese men whose bodies were found dumped on the side of a road on March 28.