Jawatankuasa Tetap Belia dan Sukan Negeri Selangor menerusi Sekretariat Belia Negeri Selangor (SBNS) akan menganjurkan Persidangan Anak Muda Kebangsaan 2010 pada 20 Mac ini. Sekretariat Akhbar Kerajaan Negeri Selangor dalam kenyataannya, berkata, program akan berlangsung di Auditorium, Dewan Sivik, Majlis Bandaraya Petaling Jaya (MBPJ) bermula…
JAWAPAN LISAN PARLIMEN 16 MAC 2010 SOALAN: Minta MENTERI PERTAHANAN menyatakan kos penyelenggaraan jenis pesawat MIG dan F18 sejak tahun 2000, sama ada siasatan dalaman TUDM untuk mengenalpasti tahap penyelewengan dalam ATSC yang telah mengakibatkan kos penyelenggaraan MIG lebih mahal beberapa kali ganda daripada jenis…
During my debate with Gerakan Secretary-General Teng Chang Yeow on Saturday 13th March at the Penang Chinese Town Hall, Teng alleged that two ethnic Chinese candidates were proposed for the position of Penang State Secretary by the Federal Government in early 2009, but were turned…
As the second 60-day period of customs “detention” of Barry Wain’s Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times ends on March 13th, I call on the Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishamuddin Hussein to release the books with immediate effect. The Malaysian government has yet to…
By dismissing the call for local elections by the Penang and Selangor state governments, Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak is keeping Malaysia under a time warp, stuck in archaic political arrangements. Such a move shows his refusal to move ahead with the times…
Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir Mohamad in Turbulent Times By Barry Wain. Palgrave Macmillan; 368 pages; Review by Liew Chin Tong Liew Chin Tong is Member of Parliament for Bukit Bendera, and author of Speaking for the Reformasi Generation. Sixty odd years after Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad…
A de facto two-party system emerged from the polling boxes on March 8 two years ago. The one-party state, however, refused to make way. Thus, Malaysia missed the opportunity to evolve into a real, normal democracy. Malaysians defied threats and overcame fear to vote for…
Wakil rakyat muda Pakatan Rakyat percaya gabungan parti berkenaan kini bertambah kuat apabila elemen-elemen yang tidak diperlukan dalam parti itu kini telah menyingkirkan diri mereka. Mereka juga akur dengan tugas berat yang kini dipikul dalam mentadbir negeri-negeri yang dikuasai Pakatan – Selangor, Pulau Pinang, Kedah…
March 3 I was surprised to see The Nut Graph’s posting “No replies for 1 March 2010” which has shown my name as one of the MPs who have not replied to the six questions under MP Watch: Eye on Parliament as of Monday, 1…
Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Maznah Mazlan said on Sunday in Rompin that some 36,000 Malaysians, or 3.6 percent of the working age population, were unemployed between October 2008 and December last year. On first glance I assumed the Deputy Minister had been misquoted, but…