KUALA KRAI, 26 June 2009: PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Aziz Nik Mat should not make statements that could confuse the people, especially when he likened the Umno cause to the teachings of Ayah Pin, describing the party as “communistic” and propagating the socialist ideology that rejects religion and belief in God. Gua Musang Member [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 April 2009: The new cabinet should be evaluated after it has been given a chance to perform, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah said today. “Let’s give them six months to perform and then we can assess them to see if they have earned the people’s confidence,” he said. Refuting a Bernama report that quoted [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 April 2009: Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has denied a Bernama report that claims he supports the new cabinet under Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. “Bernama quoted me (yesterday, 10 April 2009) as hailing the new cabinet and saying it ‘could solve the country’s economic problems’. “This is a laughable misrepresentation [...]

Updated 10.50am, 11 April 2009 GUA MUSANG, 11 April 2009: Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has strongly refuted a Bernama story that quotes him as saying that he hailed the new cabinet under Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak. Bernama reported yesterday that Gua Musang Member of Parliament Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah described the cabinet as “neat” and [...]

YESTERDAY, I gave an interview to Sarah Stewart, the Bureau Chief of AFP in Malaysia. Among the things she asked me was the unavoidable question about the international scandal linking Datuk Seri Najib Razak with the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu and with the purchase of the Scorpene submarines. I told her that in my long [...]

“You cannot topple a menteri besar or a prime minister without a no-confidence vote in the assembly. There is no other provision…Umno-Barisan Nasional was too careless and did not wait for an assembly but instead asked the ruler to sack the menteri besar…As far as I know, there is no such provision in the Perak [...]