Archive - 2 December 2018

V Ganabatirau adds that state gov't will not flout court decision to move temple to new location. 

NGO urges Harapan not to emulate previous gov't, says current situation can be dealt with under Penal Code. 

PBB Wanita chief says coalition will fight to convince S'wakians that only local parties are capable of representing them. 

Coalition chair comments on resolution adopted by MCA today to push for BN's dissolution. 

Raja Zarith Sofiah expresses sadness over racial tensions following temple riots, praises Indian staff and friends who helped her family.

UPDATED 10.57PM | Tycoon says donation is meant to help with Muhammad Adib's medical treatment and wedding. 

Home minister says action will be taken against Perkasa president if he has uttered words intended to spark racial tension. 

S'pore Straits Times quotes senior official as saying Tabung Haji allegedly faked its accounts to justify RM2.7b payout.

The resolution, which calls for the New Economic Policy to be reviewed, is one of 18 passed at national congress. 

UPDATED 8.33PM | Only one central delegate objected to the resolution, says MCA president Wee Ka Siong. 

PAS sec-gen Takiyuddin Hassan urges all PAS leaders, members and supporters to mobilise en masse for Dec 8 rally.  

Home minister says exemption also granted for police to use section 233 of CMA.

What is important, stressed PKR president, is that the riot instigators are charged.

Newly minted Mexico gov't opens up presidential home, with one visitor describing its interiors as 'obscene ostentation'. 

Education minister disappointed over poor condition of Bintulu schools, resolves to make improvements. 

PKR president responds to his MCA counterpart Wee Ka Siong's criticism of the ruling coalition.

Port Dickson MP responds to Perkasa president calling for minister to resign over recent statements on temple riots. 

Umno Youth chief calls for a fair, transparent and non-prejudiced legal process. 

CEO Zukri Samat says the reports will have no impact upon the pilgrimage fund's operations. 

'It's December. Counting to our day. The day we have been waiting for,' Nurul Najihah posts on Facebook.

Gov't rep says state of emergency will be among options considered at presidential meeting on  'yellow vest' movement. 

Minister says he will ensure local workers do not get less than what they are getting now.

His rival's running mate, Chiong Yoke Kong, also records narrow win to become deputy chief. 

These do not equal democracy and transparency, says Hasni Mohammad.

UPDATED 4.45PM | Ibrahim Ali later clarifies that running amok here merely means the Malays will assemble to voice their demands.

If viable, housing minister says, it will also be made mandatory that such homes are at least 900 sq ft in size.

UPDATED 5.31PM | Five central delegates unhappy that the party did not push for leaving the coalition instead.

'It's okay if they (MCA) want to be angry with me,' says the DAP secretary-general.

Lim Lip Eng says criminal suits are insufficient if 1MDB's current management wants its money back. 

Controversial Islamic preacher makes rare public speech in Kangar as part of a new speaking tour.

The happens because they cannot fight Harapan with facts and figures, says the DAP sec-gen.

UPDATED 4.40PM | MCA AGM | Delegates stand and applaud outgoing president as he makes his final speech.

The regulation is to make it compulsory for approval to be obtained first, says the minister.

UPDATED 2.41PM | 'Yes, we want Harapan to expand, but not at the cost of accepting enemies,' says Wong Kah Woh.

Odds seem stacked against British PM on getting exit deal approved by parliament. 

UPDATED 4.18PM | MCA AGM | New president brands Harapan a mere election machine that knows little about running the country. 

'Macron wrote a book called 'Revolution'. He was prophetic... but it is not the revolution he sought.'

UPDATED 3.50PM | MCA AGM | President Wee Ka Siong says DAP should set up its own 'Rocket University'.

UPDATED 3.17PM | MCA AGM | Party will draw inspiration from Han Kuo-yu's upset win to become mayor of Kaohsiung.

That does not mean it is against other non-race-based parties, the premier says.

Both countries engaging in new trade negotiations after Trump and Xi's high-stakes meeting in Argentina.

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This comes after police reports were lodged over spread of allegedly seditious news on social media, says S'gor police chief.