BUKIT GANTANG, 2 April 2009: Deputy Election Commission chair[person] Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar said no candidate has [withdrawn] from any of the three by-elections when the deadline for withdrawal ended at midnight yesterday. Read more here. This article first appeared on 2 April 2009 in www.theedgemalaysia.com under the title No candidates withdrew in three […]
Archives for April 2009
Testing transition
By Deborah Loh, Jacqueline Ann Surin and Shanon ShahCorrected 11.20am on 2 April 2009 IT might be interesting to find out what Datuk Seri Najib Razak privately thinks of his impending succession as prime minister of Malaysia, which looks set to happen tomorrow, 3 April 2009. Penny for your thoughts (Public domain) Would he perhaps be comparing the responses towards him with those […]
Give PIS a chance in Bkt Gantang
By Deborah LohKamarul Ramizu Idris IT’S an expensive way to set up a party, but independent candidate Kamarul Ramizu Idris believes the thousands of ringgit he will spend on contesting the by-election in Bukit Gantang is the best way to popularise himself. He is using the by-election campaign as a platform to introduce himself to voters so […]
Umno contradictions
By The Nut Graph team“Umno must never practise discrimination to the extent that non-Malays view it as a racist party. The rights of every citizen must always be protected, guaranteed and respected, as provided by the constitution and encapsulated in the Rukun Negara.” Outgoing Umno president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi when delivering his final policy address at the […]
‘One Malaysia’ concept just way to unity: Najib
PUTRAJAYA, 1 April 2009: The implementation of various programmes in accordance with the “One Malaysia” concept can unite the people of various communities in the country in a more just manner, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today. He said the concept would be implemented in an organised and systematic manner to ensure […]
April 2009
Najib consolidates and compromises Corrected 11.56pm, 24 April 2009 We mistakenly reported that Datuk Seri Zulhasnan Rafique had lost his bid for an Umno supreme council post during the party elections in March. Zulhasnan had in fact won a place on the supreme council, polling 1,431 votes and coming in 22nd place. We apologise for […]
BN and PAS face off in Perak
By Deborah Loh(Pic by Raj Kumar, courtesy of theSun) NO other issue dominates the Bukit Gantang by-election as much as the Barisan Nasional (BN)’s 5 Feb 2009 takeover of the Perak state government and the sultan’s role in it. As the BN and Pakatan Rakyat (PR) take to the campaign trail, who has the better argument in […]
Cabinet wants more info on water tariff hike
KUALA LUMPUR, 1 April 2009: The cabinet has asked the Energy, Water and Communications Ministry to provide more information on the proposed water tariff adjustment for Selangor and the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya. It needed to scrutinise the information together with the ministry’s recommendations before deciding on the matter, it said in […]
Appoint Shahrizat as senator and minister
KUALA LUMPUR, 1 April 2009: A senator today proposed that the new Wanita Umno chief Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil be appointed as a senator and be made the Minister of Women, Family and Community Development. Senator Datuk Nor Hayati Onn said the proposal was so that Shahrizat could be the voice of women under […]
EC: No phantoms in Bkt Selambau
By Shanon ShahSUNGAI PETANI, 1 Apr 2009: The Election Commission (EC) has denied that there are doubtful or phantom voters registered in Bukit Selambau. “Sometimes voters register at a particular address but then they move to a different area and do not inform the EC of this change,” Kedah EC director Zainal Abidin Zakaria told The Nut […]
