Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi said today the Umno supreme council will meet next Thursday to consider bringing forward Umno polls to December.
However the Umno president said that even if the party holds its elections in December, he will still hand over power to the new Umno president only in March assuming Barisan Nasional [...]
Kota Kinabalu : The disclosure by the Sarawak Minister of Public Utilities Datuk Seri Awang Tengah Awang Ali Hassan last Saturday (October 4) that Sabah was holding talks with Sarawak on the purchase of energy from Sarawak shows that there are viable alternatives to the Ringgit 1.3 billion 300 MW coal-fired power plant proposed to [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 8 - A frenzy of meetings in his office yesterday, a chain SMS and support from an unlikely source have convinced many people that Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will change his mind and signal his intention to defend his party president’s position.
Such is the speculation that even Datuk Seri Najib [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, - A looming leadership transition in Malaysia’s ruling coalition will do nothing to reform an administration mired in corruption, opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said Tuesday.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who led the coalition to its worst ever performance in elections this year, is expected to announce shortly whether he will stand aside next [...]
Even the dizzying pace of Aidilfitri has not unsettled me, nor has it made me so totally detached from the goings-on in Umno/national politics. No sir.
My ears tingle during Aidilfitri chatter. By design or otherwise, the chatter invariably veers towards making guesses whether or not Pak Lah will announce that he’s stepping down. And this [...]
Kota Kinabalu: Reiterating that his position in the State Cabinet is the prerogative of Chief Minister Datuk Seri Musa Haji Aman, Datuk Raymond Tan Shu Kiah said he is leaving his Cabinet posts to the Chief Minister.
“I must respect the Government and Chief Minister’s prerogative on my position. You don’t even have to ask me [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 — The editor of Malaysia’s best-known anti-government news portal went on trial today for sedition for allegedly implying the deputy prime minister was involved in the murder of a young Mongolian woman.
Raja Petra Kamarudin, 58, who denies the allegation, is already in jail in a separate case under the Internal Security [...]
KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 6 - On or just before Thursday, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, 67, will announce that he will not seek re-election for the presidency of Umno, Malaysia’s dominant political party.
That much is self-evident because at least three candidates have announced plans to contest the deputy presidency in the belief that Abdullah will [...]
Now that exhortations of change are the norm rather than the exception – indeed emanating from the cabinet itself – perhaps it is time for us to look at another ingredient of democracy which should be redefined in our mission to advance to the next stage of political sophistication: ideology.
International media coverage of the general [...]
KOTA KINABALU, Sept (Bernama) — When Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) president Datuk Yong Teck Lee announced the party’s decision to leave the Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition on Sept 17, it did not surprise many people as it was something to be expected.
This was because three months beforehand, SAPP had displayed such a tendency.
But when United [...]
