KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 – Dewan Negara President Tan Sri Abu Zahar Ujang today chided senators, who are not involved in the UMNO Gemeral Assembly (PAU) 2015, for not attending Dewan Negara sittings. He said he did give permission for several ministers, who are involved in PAU, to excuse themselves from attending
SUNGAI PETANI, Dec 9 – A 35-year-old housewife was charged at the Magistrate’s Court here on Tuesday for killing her two sons last week. According to the charge sheet, Saw Shok Kian was accused of murdering Tee Cong Ming, 5, and Tee Chong Sern, 2, at between 10 pm on Nov 30
SEREMBAN, Dec 9 – Consumers in Seremban will experience a 24-hour water supply disruption beginning 10pm on Dec 15 due to the conversion of roller bobbin by the Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) at the Sungai Terip water treatment plant main switch station, near here. In the meantime, Syarikat Air Negeri Sembilan
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 – UMNO president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak expressed his appreciation to Wanita UMNO here on Wednesday for their contributions and for being the backbone of the party. Najib, who is also the Prime Minister made the gesture spontaneously when he stopped by this morning at the
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 – Media practitioners covering the UMNO General Assembly 2015 are advised not to write speculative news reports to avoid confusion. Deputy Communications and Multimedia Minister Datuk Jailani Johari said the speculative news could mislead the public. “Therefore, stop all the speculation, there is no need to sensationalise
KUALA LUMPUR, DEC 9 – Leadership, unity and 1MDB are set for full play at the UMNO general assembly Thursday. The frequently and widely discussed issues raised at the meetings of the Youth, Wanita and Puteri wings today have laid the premise for the presidential address and debate. Wanita chief Datuk Seri
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 – Police have refuted news of a landslide at Karak highway as claimed through social network sites and WhatsApp application today. Bentong district police chief, Supt Mohamad Mansor Mohamad Nor when contacted told Bernama that there was no landslide occurrence on the highway today. He said he
GEORGE TOWN, Dec 9 – Members of Parliament (MP) Tanjong Ng Wei Aik said he will not resign as parliamentary representatives if the improvements implemented on next year. Ng answering the call of Dewan Rakyat speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia who wanted him and Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng resign but Ng said
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 – Umno Supreme Council meeting will take place at 8pm today which expected to decide the two fate of the leaders, deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin and vice-president Datuk Seri Shafie.The meeting was seen as significant because it is no longer a question of whether Muhyiddin
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 – UMNO Youth Leader Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar, who is Youth and Sports Minister has urged the government to refrain from introducing any price hikes in light of the increasing cost of living in the country. He stressed in his speech during the launch of UMNO Youth General
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 – The UMNO Supreme Council (MT) meeting tonight will discuss only issues on the party’s general assembly and will not touch on the position of deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. UMNO vice-president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said the meeting would only discuss two agenda,
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 – The International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed has settled his defamation suit brought against PAS, former PAS secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali and two others at the High Court here on yesterday. The suit was in relation to a defamatory statement by former PAS Vice-President
PUTRAJAYA, Dec 9 – Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Minister Datuk Abdul Rahman Dahlan has instructed his lawyer to commence filing a suit against a news portal to clear his name. He said in his statement here yesterday that he wish to stress here that his action is not to curb media freedom
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 – The media centre housing media representatives on Level 2 of the Putra World Trade Centre (PWTC) here, in conjunction with the 2015 UMNO General Assembly was officially opened yestertoday by UMNO Vice-President Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. Also present at the opening ceremony were UMNO
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 – The Attorney-General’s Chambers had to withdraw charges against National Feedlot Corporation Sdn Bhd (NFCorp) executive chairman Datuk Seri Dr Mohamad Salleh Ismail on criminal breach of trust (CBT) charges involving RM49.7 million due to lack of strong evidence, said Attorney-General (AG) Tan Sri Mohamed Apandi Ali.
GEORGE TOWN, Dec 9 – Penang Chief Minister, who is also DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng asked the Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s to clarification that the RM2.6 billion deposited into his private bank accounts as a ‘donation’ is from a ‘kind-hearted’ donor. “How Najib managed to attract such a kind-hearted donor as to donate
GEORGE TOWN, Dec 9 – Political Secretary Wong Hon Wai, who is also State Assemblyman of Air Itam wish to refer to attacks on the Penang Chief Minister’s Lim Guan Eng criticism of the PH Penang state government being “stabbed in the back” by the 5 Penang PKR State Assemblypersons led by PKR party whip
SHAH ALAM, Dec 9 – Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali had repeated the stand on Monday that the party will maintain its political collaboration (tahaluf siyasi) with PAS even if Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) was rejected it. Mohamed Azmin, who is also Selangor Menteri Besar, said PKR welcomed
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 9 – The Umno Secretary General Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor said on Tuesday that the Deputy President Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has crossed the line with his speech last night and can lose his position because of it. “I ran through the video of the speech at 2
GEORGE TOWN, Dec 8 – The Higher Education Ministry is confident that all public universities in the country are capable of generating their own income through research activity, consultancy and inter-industry collaboration. However, Minister Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh said in order to be a world-class institution, public universities should not be too
