PENANG, 31 July 2009: PAS state assemblyperson for Permatang Pasir Datuk Mohd Hamdan Abdul Rahman died of heart ailment at the National Heart Institute (IJN) in Kuala Lumpur this morning. He was 63. His death means another by-election — the eighth since the March 2008 general election — would have to be called to fill [...]

Toni Kasim in Turkey, November 2007 (© Julian Lee) “WHAT would Toni say?” It’s a question I’ve asked myself quite frequently in recent times, especially with the constant and new challenges one faces in running an office and being an online journalist. “What would Toni say”, I guess, is my version of Christians who use [...]

PETALING JAYA, 25 June 2009: Pakatan Rakyat needs to, among others, form a shadow cabinet in order for Malaysia to start having a two-party system, a political scientist said. Monash University Sunway Campus’s Prof Dr James Chin said Pakatan Rakyat (PR) had to first formalise itself as a coalition before talk about Malaysia having a [...]

KUALA TERENGGANU, 7 June 2009: Umno Youth hopes that the discussion between Umno and PAS can be continued following the reelection of Nasharudin Mat Isa as the PAS deputy president yesterday. Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin said Umno Youth maintained an open mind about cooperation with PAS because after the last general election, the question [...]

SHAH ALAM, 5 June 2009: PAS is ready for federal power, party president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said today. “PAS is ready to offer itself to lead change, and bear the responsibility of national leadership in a mixed society such as Malaysia’s,” he said in his opening speech for the 55th PAS muktamar. Stressing [...]

PUTRAJAYA, 28 May 2009: The Federal Court here today declared that the Ladang state seat in Terengganu was rightly won by PAS, and dismissed an appeal by the Terengganu Barisan Nasional (BN) against the high court’s dismissal of a BN petition challenging the result of the general election last year. Chief Judge of Sabah and [...]