THE number of Members of Parliament (MPs) who fully participated in the MP Watch: Eye on Parliament project is just slightly more than those who did not, at 113 to 109. There are a total of 222 MPs in the Dewan Rakyat. Pakatan Rakyat (PR) MPs were the most participative, with 61 or 80.2% out [...]

BESUT Member of Parliament (MP) Datuk Dr Abdullah Md Zin’s response to the MP Watch: Eye on Parliament project, which asks all 222 MPs six questions. Name: Abdullah Md Zin Constituency: Besut Party: Umno Years as MP: Since 2004 Government position: Religious advisor to the prime minister Party position: Besut division treasurer Membership in parliamentary [...]

IN 2006, then Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak launched on behalf of the prime minister a manual on gender budgeting in Malaysia. The manual was published a year earlier after the completion of a gender budgeting pilot project with five key ministries.  Gender budgeting seems to have dropped off the government radar Since [...]