Yusof Ghani

Seorang pemimpin PAS di Kelantan yakin rakyat negeri itu tidak akan terpengaruh dengan janji Barisan Nasional untuk membawa pembangunan di negeri itu, kerana sebenarnya apa yang mereka mahukan ialah pembangunan bersama kepimpinan Islam yang diterajui PAS.

Federal Court judge Mohtar Abdullah, most remembered as the leading prosecutor in the Anwar trials, has yet to recover from a brain surgery five months ago and is now warded at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital.

Public funds are used yet again to prop up the ailing KL stock market, this time a whopping RM10 billion. The opposition questions the move, but an economics don is confident of a positive result.

Even as DAP rejects yet another call to rejoin the opposition front, all parties believe they will come to a common understanding to take on the ruling front in the next polls.

Keputusan kerajaan menghentikan bantuan kewangan kepada Sekolah Agama Rakyat (SAR) turut meresahkan penyokong kerajaan yang turut mentadbirkan sekolah yang sama. Manakala PAS pula menyifatkan tindakan itu melampaui batas kuasa Sultan.

Although the MTUC crisis has eased a little in recent days, a request for a vote of no-confidence motion against Zainal Rampak has been sent to the congress headquarters. However, the motion may be deferred.

MTUC president Zainal Rampak says his deputy's cancellation of the picket planned to protest his reneging the deal to step down from the top post augurs well for worker and union solidarity.

A key leader in the current MTUC feud, Mohamed Shafie Mammal, has called off the proposed picket against his opponent, Zainal Rampak, in the name of industrial harmony.

While DAP says it can prove that Umno supporters started the melee at the Jalan Kuching toll plaza closure bash and has lodged a police report over the incident, an Umno leader is claiming that the 'sickening behaviour' of opposition supporters triggered the fracas.

Pro-government and opposition supporters clash at a celebration to mark the seven-year overdue closure of the Jalan Kuching toll plaza last night and DAP says Umno supporters started it.

Pemuda Umno yakin dengan keikhlasan Datuk Seri Dr Ling Liong Sik untuk berundur dari Kabinet, tetapi pembangkang menyifatkannya sebagai "sandiwara babak kedua" presiden MCA itu.

Tension surrounding the breach of discipline of two MCA Penang elected representatives lifted today, as the Barisan Nasional supreme council decided they had been punished enough.

Can't keep a good man down? Veteran trade unionist Zainal Rampak, who is at the centre of a bitter spat in the MTUC, would like to think so.

When a general election looms, no political coalition can afford an internal crisis — so tells BN secretary-general Mohamed Rahmat to MCA and Gerakan.

Even as third parties rush to douse the growing fire created by two unions at war over their leaders' claim to lead the nation's largest labour body, one faction is still mulling an offensive.

Senario politik Umno di Kedah kini sudah berubah dan Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Syed Razak Syed Zain yakin negeri jelapang padi itu akan kembali dikuasai Umno dalam pilihanraya umum akan datang.

The leadership crisis in MTUC looks set to worsen as Zainal Rampak's deputy, Mohamed Shafie BP Mammal, is expected to reveal the alleged corrupt practices of the president at a press conference on Sunday.

exclusive Though expecting fewer Chinese votes for the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition in the next general elections, a key Umno leader paints a positive picture for the ruling party with the return of its prodigal sons.

The indiscriminate transfer of six Sabah bank employees is seen as a precursor to more actions by banks nationwide to take advantage of a union weakened by an internal crisis since July.

Bumiputra Commerce Bank unionised employees stand to lose their union membership as they have gotten their December pay last Friday but without the union fee cut, a situation that puts their union membership at risk.

A union leader slams the nine commercial banks involved in a union dispute for not trying to resolve the matter urgently by keeping mum on details of yesterday's meeting with the human resource ministry.

Dewan Pemuda PAS memuji dua Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (Adun) MCA di Pulau Pinang kerana tidak mengundi menentang usul pembangkang di sidang Dewan Undangan Negeri bulan lalu, sebagai menggambarkan hasrat sebenar pengundi di kawasan masing-masing.

National Union of Bank Employees says it has met conditions stipulated by commercial banks, for a dispute to be resolved. It will not tolerate any more delays.

PAS menyifatkan keluhan perdana menteri berikutan ibu bapa Melayu lebih memilih sekolah agama daripada sekolah kebangsaan, sebagai tanda kegagalan sistem pendidikan di Malaysia.