KUALA LUMPUR, 25 June 2009: DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang has submitted a motion to refer Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat to Parliament’s Privileges Committee. “This is for misleading Parliament in his eight-minute ministerial statement on the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal on 22 June (2009),” Lim said in a press conference [...]

SHAH ALAM, 28 May 2009: The long-standing proposal to set up a union for the electronic sector has been approved by the cabinet yesterday, Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S Subramaniam said today. The cabinet, however, decided that the union would be established at the regional level, namely for the northern, southern, central and eastern [...]

PETALING JAYA, 27 May 2009: The task force report on sexual violence against Penan girls and women must be made public and not just disclosed partially, two women’s groups said today. “It is imperative that the government makes public the Penan task force report,” Women’s Aid Organisation (WAO) executive director Ivy Josiah told The Nut [...]

PETALING JAYA, 26 May 2009: The Federation of Malaysian Consumer Associations (Fomca) today sent an open letter to the Prime Minister and his cabinet urging them to take immediate steps to improve the public transportation system in the country. The letter, made available to Bernama, said that despite promises made by the government over the [...]

PUTRAJAYA, 21 May 2009: The Federal Court here set 30 July to hear Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s case to challenge the constitutionality of his sacking from the cabinet in 1998 by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The case was initially fixed for hearing today before a three member panel comprising Court of Appeal [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 4 May 2009: A meeting involving several ministries and religious departments will be held soon to iron out issues regarding the religious status of a child when a parent converts to Islam. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Maj-Gen (R) Datuk Jamil Khir Baharom said that the closed-door meeting might also involve religious [...]