KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – Changing and electing an UMNO president must be carried out according to the democratic process instead of according to the wish of a particular individual, said a Perak UMNO representative at the Putra World Trade Centre here Friday. Gopeng UMNO division chief Senator Datuk Hamzah
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – PAS should not be perceived as the main enemy of Umno, on the contrary the Islam-based party is a friend that can win back support, especially of the Malays, to the Barisan Nasional, said Terengganu UMNO representative Datuk Din Adam. Debating the policy speech of
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – The UMNO Malaysia Welfare Bureau, in collaboration with the 1Malaysia Putra Club and the Selangor Four-Wheel-Drive (4X4) Club have organised a five-day four-wheel-drive Malaysia-Thailand (Yala) Adventure charity convoy beginning Friday. Bureau chairman Datuk Seri Abdul Azeez Abdul Rahim said the convoy, participated by about 80
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – The 2015 UMNO General Assembly, which entered its second day today, continued the debate on the motion of thanks for the policy speech by party President Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak. Commencing at 8.30 this morning, another 10 debaters were scheduled to present their views including
SHAH ALAM, Dec 11 – Selangor Tithe Board (LZS) Chairman Tan Sri Syed Anwar Ibni Almarhum Tuanku Syed Putra Jamalullail leads the list of 75 recipients of Selangor state medals and awards in conjunction with the 70th birthday of the Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Friday. Syed Anwar,
KUALA LUMPUR, DEC 11 – About one third of UMNO president Najib Razak’s policy speech at the general assembly yesterday was about healing rifts, between him and his internal critics and also between the party and its political rival, PAS. But of all these, it is the feud between him and
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – Dewan Merdeka in Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) chaotic when representatives from Perak giving a speech in a tone of questioning struggle Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in UMNO. The commotion began when Datuk Hamzah Mohd Kassim said the success of UMNO today is not because a
DataScience, the data science startup with the name (and URL) that every other data science startup wants, announced today that it has raised $22 million in Series A. The company says that it uses a combination of in-house data scientists, proprietary technology and custom data models to help businesses do things like predict
WASHINGTON, Dec 11 – The U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria has killed the group’s finance minister and two other senior leaders in air strikes in recent weeks, a U.S. military spokesman said on Thursday. Army Colonel Steve Warren told a Pentagon briefing coalition strikes had killed
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – UMNO Deputy President Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and Vice-President Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal were urged ‘to calm down’ and be re-united to strengthen the party’s unity. Kelantan UMNO representative, Datuk Md Alwi Che Ahmad said the two leaders should learn from the Kelantan political history and
MELAKA, Dec 11 – Malaysian police will record a statement from Xavier Andre Justo who is now being detained in Bangkok, Thailand on Tuesday, to facilitate investigations into issues related to the 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB). Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar said the date was fixed by the Thai
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – The strong and steadfast leadership of UMNO president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in the party is the key to the government’s strength. MIC president Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam said said the continued strong support of party members for the prime minister would help the
KUALA NERUS, Dec 11 – To overcome the widespread use of vape among students at the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu (UMT), there will be stricter enforcement on its usage, beginning next year. Deputy vice-chancellor (Student Affairs), Prof Dr Anuar Hasan said the university was currently taking measures to educate students on the dangers
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – A 19-year-old, Perak-born suspect who joined an Al-Qaeda terror cell in Syria was detained by the Bukit Aman special branch counter-terrorism division upon arrival from Turkey at the KL International Airport here earlier this week Monday. “The suspect was a student at a university in Cairo who joined the militant group
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – Only 116,418 of 1,111,268 traffic offence notices issued by the Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) from Jan 1 to Oct 31, have been paid. Federal Territories Deputy Minister Datuk Dr Loga Bala Mohan told the Dewan Negara here Thursday, a total of RM7,182,110 was collected. Some
PORT DICKSON, Dec 11 – A total of 783.9 kilogrammes of syabu worth RM 157.5 million which was seized by the Pahang Narcotics Investigation Department in 2009, was disposed at Kualiti Alam Sdn Bhd’s toxic waste disposal site in Bukit Nenas near here, Thursday. “The drugs disposed of involved the
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – UMNO President Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is not a leader who “blows his own trumpet” over the success of the Malays and UMNO, said Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Seri Salleh Said Keruak. He said the various success stories shared by Najib when opening the
KUALA LUMPUR, DEC 11 – Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak feels strongly that it would be cowardly and irresponsible for him to give up his post as UMNO President. He said he can’t just abandon the cause and drop the mission without first ensuring that not only are issues arising resolved but
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 11 – UMNO’s struggle is not confined to the peninsula, but also in Sabah and Sarawak through the assistance provided to the Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties. Party president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak stressed on this matter in his policy speech at the opening of the UMNO
SYDNEY, Dec 11 – Buried in the lengthy report released last week by Australia’s MH370 investigators is one crucial revelation: the aircraft suffered a serious technical problem triggered by a power outage. The Australian Defense Science and Technology report officially acknowledges the doomed Malaysia Airlines flight suffered a sudden electrical failure before
