updated 11.42pm
Former Selangor menteri besar Mohd Khir Toyo tonight resigned as chairperson of Selangor Umno and the state Barisan Nasional.
000While the Penang police issue a stern warning, a protest is held in Selangor calling on the state government to among others not to appoint a non-Malay deputy menteri besar.
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updated 8.30pm
Abdullah adds that the ministers and their deputies would be asked to declare their assets twice during the five-year parliamentary term.
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The PAS-led Kelantan state government departed from its conservative stand by appointing Kijang assemblyperson Wan Ubaidah Omar to oversee women, family and health matters.
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PKR, DAP and PAS leaders agreed that she will be made opposition leader until her husband Anwar Ibrahim wins a parliament seat when he's eligible to contest one.
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updated 2.10pm
His sudden resignation comes less than 24 hours after Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi dropped him from his new cabinet line-up.
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