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UPDATED 4.05PM BN Youth warns that the RM1,100 proposed in the shadow budget is ‘unrealistic’. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 7.30PM Our numbers do add up, Pakatan tells MCA's young professionals bureau chief Chua Tee Yong.

PARLIAMENT Without spending big bucks, Singapore provides security for its people, notes MP Wee Choo Keong.

COMMENT Awer urges the government to consider the following recommendations to perhaps save billions of ringgit from being wasted.

UPDATED 3.25PM ‘We'll give the breakdown. It's (also) about ... creating omnipresence on the ground,' says Hisham.

UPDATED 6.15PM PARLIAMENT That's the hint from a BN member, in the hope this will heighten focus on development of the East Malaysian state.

UPDATED 6.25PM Pakatan MPs claim the PM’s ‘misleading’ budget speech indicates that the 1pct tax cut will be paid back through GST. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The non-presence of the cabinet during Anwar Ibrahim’s 2013 Budget reply shows their total disregard of the democratic system, he says.

PARLIAMENT In New Zealand, says the speaker, only 12 people are allowed to debate the budget and this within 14 hours.

PKR bases this assessment on the difference in allocations for women’s needs in Budget 2013 and the shadow budget. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 5.55PM Several BN youth leaders are invited to defend the federal government’s budget, that is, if they dare take on questions from the public.

UPDATED 3.30PM PARLIAMENT ‘This is so that they will not depend on foreign funds,’ argues Independent MP Ibrahim Ali.

Allocations for pension and emolument have been massaged to paint a false impression of lower deficit, says deputy minister.

COMMENT Broken promises will continue to afflict Sabah, which is getting a mere 1.2 percent of the RM251.6 billion budget.

A total of RM10.9 billion has been allocated to projects linked to cronies, while a mere RM4.2 billion is given directly to the people.

The dealers must be registered with the MCMC, says Finance Ministry secretary-general Mohd Irwan Siregar Abdullah.

COMMENT The absence of PM and his cohort at Anwar's reply to the Budget suggests an indifference to parliamentary norms...

COMMENT The PM is described as ‘Santa Claus’ bringing a bagful of momentary joy, but he fails to address...

Tertiary students aged 21 and above are not entitled to receive the RM250 given out under the 1Malaysia People’s Aid (BR1M) 2.0 meant for single unmarried people aged 21 and above earning less than RM2,000 per month, the Finance Ministry clarified today. 

UPDATED 7.05PM Finance Ministry sec-gen Mohd Irwan Serigar Abdullah says without taking these into account the federal debt is at a ‘safe’ level.

AG Ambrin Buang said the delay of the audit report 2011 is 'normal' as last year's report was also delayed.

Tuan Ibrahim says while Budget 2013 may numb the people with its sweeteners, the audit report will wake everyone to reality.

The gov't will make an announcement on BR1M 2.0 in one or two weeks, by October the forms should be available, says the deputy minister.