“WITH independent candidates, it depends on their ‘roots’,” says Kedah Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) information chief Ahmad Kasim. “For example, if they were originally from PKR, they will naturally pull votes away from the PKR candidate.” But if they were originally from the Barisan Nasional (BN), he says, they will split votes for the BN. […]
Archives for March 2009
Zahid welcomes Dr M’s intended return to Umno
KOTA BARU, 30 March 2009: Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today welcomed the announcement by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad that he would rejoin Umno shortly. He said the statesman’s readiness to rejoin Umno showed that he loved the party. “Umno’s doors are always open to Tun (Dr Mahathir) and […]
Not BN style to point fingers: Abdullah
KUALA LUMPUR, 30 March 2009: The Barisan Nasional (BN) never subscribes to the opposition way of pointing fingers at government leaders during election campaigns, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said today. “That’s the opposition style. We do not subscribe to this style of campaigning. It is important that we should prove our determination […]
Big political parties should lead in battling corruption
KUALA LUMPUR, 30 March 2009: Big political parties should take their own initiative to stamp out corruption in their respective organisations, said Tan Sri Bernard Giluk Dompok, Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department today. This will leave the government and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency (MACC) to deal with the menace of corruption in the government […]
Abdullah guarantees that transition will happen
KUALA LUMPUR, 30 March 2009: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said the transition process of handing over the premiership to Datuk Seri Najib Razak will happen in due course. “Just wait for that. Don’t ask me to say anything. All these things will happen in due course,” he said to reporters after launching the Puncak […]
Higher standard of English needed
By See Tshiung HanAFTER reading Wong Chin Huat’s Scaling the language barrier, I thought I would share a few thoughts on English education and education reform. I was born in Malaysia, but after a year, my parents and I moved to Canada. At the time, public education in Canada was very good. We returned to Malaysia in […]
Kelantan Sultan wants people to respect constitution
KOTA BARU, 30 March 2009: The Sultan of Kelantan, Tuanku Ismail Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Yahya Petra today called on the people to respect the national constitution and understand the principles of the Rukun Negara. In addition, he said all the races must appreciate the social contract which had been agreed upon for so long. […]
Jerai PKR chief quits
By Shanon ShahSUNGAI PETANI, 30 Mar 2009: Jerai Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) chief B Kalaivanar announced today he was quitting the party and that he has applied to dissolve the entire Jerai division. He said he had consulted the division and there was an overwhelming loss of confidence in what PKR stood for. “At one time the […]
Battling over land rights in Batang Ai
By Deborah LohFOOD on the table and a roof over one’s head — these are key issues in almost any election in rural Malaysia. But in the Sarawak hinterland, it’s a more emotional subject as food and shelter are derived from a hereditary source, the forest, which has been fought over by native communities and the state […]
Marilah mengundi!
Oleh Shanon ShahMENURUT satu kajian pada tahun 2005, pengundi biasa di Malaysia lebih cenderung “membiarkan isu politik di tangan pemimpin politik”. Tiga tahun kemudian, keputusan pilihanraya umum telah menggegarkan seluruh arena politik negara. Tetapi sejauh manakah proses pematangan di kalangan pengundi Malaysia? Menurut angka 2008, Malaysia mempunyai 10,922,139 pengundi berdaftar. Ini merupakan hanya 71% daripada jumlah rakyat […]
