Archive - 20 March 2008

The Selangor executive councillor list is supposed to be finalised today but a check reveals that there are still many complications that must be ironed out.

The verdict from the March 8 polls was crystal clear. The majority believe that multiracial politics is the way forward, says Malaysian Indian Business Association president P Sivakumar.

Is it the fi rst sign of a defection? Richard Riot, the five-term MP for Serian in Sarawak, has resigned from Supp after being snubbed over a cabinet post. His next stop - PKR?

Four years later, Lim Kit Siang has to repeat his demands for a series of wide-ranging parliamentary reforms. This time, there are five new proposals.

Historical evidence show that many people are given the opportunity to become leaders but only a handful rose to be successful leaders who charted history and built civilisations, says the regent.

If they continue to run their parties along the same old racial lines, five years from now BN could very well be relegated to an opposition party, warns MCA’s Wong Sai Hou.

The newly-minted domestic trade and consumer affairs minister says his first task is to obtain feedback from consumer NGOs amid grouses over the rising living cost.

The new de facto law minister’s first task would be to establish a royal commission to look into all aspects of the judiciary, says DAP’s Dr Tan Seng Giaw.

This was DAP's electoral battle cry. Why not put it into practice? asks a local activist.

This article is one-third about politics and two-thirds about science fiction, or more or less the same ratio to what passes as news reports in Malaysian mainstream media.

analysis What would be the results if the parliamentary seats were allocated to the different states in proportion to the number of voters in each state?

Plantation giant Sime Darby averted any untoward incident in its estate in Rantau by quickly taking action against culprits who demolished Hindu temples just days before the general election.