About 10,000 visitors, including 3,000 Buddhist delegates from Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Sri Lanka witnessed the grand opening of a 20-storey high Octagonal Pavilion covering the Goddess of Mercy (Kuan Yin) at the Kek Lok Si Temple in Air Itam here today. The opening of…
Kerja-kerja pemuliharaan tapak warisan di Melaka dan Pulau Pinang Khazanah Nasional Berhad dan Jabatan Warisan Negara dipertanggungjawab memulihara dua tapak warisan yang diiktiraf Pertubuhan Pendidikan, Saintifik dan Kebudayaan Pertubuhan Bangsa Bersatu (Unesco) iaitu Melaka dan George Town, Pulau Pinang. Timbalan Menteri Kewangan Datuk Chor Chee…
The government revealed today that the profit garnered from the special draws operated by various gaming companies is spent on various social programmes including healthcare and welfare. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who is also the finance minister, in a written reply said the…
Keeping in line with the policy not to give money to the opposition, the Barisan Nasional-ruled federal government has instead directed state asset manager Khazanah Nasional Berhad to maintain heritage sites in Penang. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, in a written reply to a…
Jawatankuasa memantau hal ehwal Kementerian Pertahanan di bawah Pakatan Rakyat meminta kementerian berkenaan mengadakan satu taklimat mengenai dasar-dasar pertahanan kepada semua ahli parlimen khususnya jawatankuasa berkenaan.
Pakatan Rakyat has set up an anti-GST (goods and services tax) task force to give the public a holistic understanding of the impact of the proposed tax. The Government is expected to introduce GST, estimated to be around 4%, in 2011, to boost revenue by…
Pakatan Rakyat menubuhkan sebuah pasukan khas bagi memantau akta cukai barangan dan perkhidmatan (GST) kerana, bagi mereka, GST adalah satu tindakan untuk memeras wang rakyat kerana kerajaan sudah kehabisan wang. Ahli Parlimen Machang, Saifuddin Nasution dari PKR berkata, pasukan petugas pemantau GST (Anti-GST Task Force)…
Unhappy with the readmission of Bukit Bendera Umno division chief Ahmad Ismail, DAP parliamentarians challenged Gerakan and MCA to quit the BN coalition over the matter. Ahmad, who referred to the Chinese community as “pendatang” (immigrants) was readmitted into Umno last week after he was…
Most of the defence information the opposition shadow committee has is based on half-truths and information trawled from the Internet. Defence Minister Dr Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, here for the Langkawi International Maritime and Aero-space Exhibition 2009, said the opposition was “struggling” to get…
For the sake of Malaysia’s already truncated parliamentary democracy, the Barisan Nasional Federal Government should immediately close the operations of Biro Tata Negara. Apart from instigating racial hatred as testified by many participants, BTN seminars and courses take partisan stance against Pakatan Rakyat parties, which…