The collapse of a 10-metre-long retention wall near the top of Penang Hill triggered a landslide on Tuesday. Bukit Bendera MP Liew Chin Tong blamed shoddy workmanship and a slow response by the Public Works Department (PWD) for the collapse.
The resignation of an opposition assemblyman, paving the way for a by-election in Penang, has exposed widening cracks within the three-party Pakatan Rakyat (PR). But the leaders yesterday denied that there were problems.
PENANG Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, who is in Singapore to meet investors, called on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the Istana yesterday. He was accompanied by Deputy Chief Minister P. Ramasamy and Mr Liew Chin Tong, the MP for Bukit Bendera.
Can the Prime Minister’s Department resolve the ever increasing public transportation woes in the country? The Commercial Vehicle Licensing Board, formerly under the Entrepreneur and Cooperative Development Ministry, is entrusted with issuing and withdrawing taxi licences. Yet the power to enforce regulations over taxi drivers…
Nature lovers don’t mind suffering and sacrificing a little for Mother Earth.
A day after Tuesday’s by-elections, the message for the ruling Barisan Nasional is clearer than ever: It has to rethink its race-based strategy. Tuesday’s two losses meant four straight victories in Peninsula Malaysia for the opposition alliance, Pakatan Rakyat (PR), since the 2008 general election.
Speculation is rife that the Cabinet of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak will be leaner, meaner and slimmer. Or will it?
Is Pak Lah the third prime minister to be brought down by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad? Not only did Mahathir sent off three of his four deputies – Tun Musa Hitam, Tun Ghafar Baba and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim – in his half-a-century political career,…
Will the souls of the dead hold back out-of-town voters, especially the Chinese, in the three by-elections on Tuesday? The fact is that Qing Ming, better known as All Souls Day in Malaysia, will be observed this weekend among the Chinese. “We are concerned about…
‘One should judge me by my actions,’ said Najib Abdul Razak, after assuming his new position as Umno president. The rhetorical flourishes of the incoming prime minister is reaching unprecedented heights of incredulity and ridiculousness when measured against his actions over the last two months,…
To all Malaysians who created the GE14 miracle, keep fighting. We will be back stronger.