SUNGAI PETANI, 4 April 2009: People’s Progressive Party (PPP) vice-president Datuk V Nadarajan has quit the party to join Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR). PKR adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, who announced this tonight at ceramah at Hock Teik Soo Chinese Hall in Sungai Lalang here, also said Kampung Jerai Umno deputy chief Marzuki Md Akib […]
Release of ISA detainees “a political ploy” (Updated)
By Deborah Loh(Updated 5:11pm, 4 April 2009) TAIPING, 4 April 2009: Pakatan Rakyat leaders in Bukit Gantang are calling the release of 13 Internal Security Act detainees a political ploy, and say it will not swing votes away from the PAS candidate. PAS national elections director Datuk Mustaffa Ali said voters would know that the release, promised […]
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 […]
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 […]
The media — love it or hate it
By Zedeck Siew“All these websites have been irresponsible in their reporting. If you report responsibly about Umno’s leaders, then we will allow you to come in. But the way they report is sickening.” UMNO secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor, on the party’s decision not to issue press tags to six online media organisations to cover […]
No holds barred in Bukit Gantang
By Deborah LohCorrected at 1 April 2009, 11.15pm and 2 April 2009, 2.11.pm THE Bukit Gantang parliamentary seat can be considered a mini-Malaysia as its racial population breakdown reflects the country’s ethnic composition. With 63.5% Malay Malaysian and 35% non-Malay Malaysians voters in the constituency, what happens here could well reflect the national sentiment. (Corrected) Expect a […]
What Najib needs
By Ooi Kee BengA nice big hug (Pic courtesy of theSun) AND so, after holding the sceptre of power for five and a half years, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi now passes it to Datuk Seri Najib Razak. While Abdullah’s ascendance to power in 2003 was greeted with cheers from Malaysians, his retirement is being met with grave […]
For better or for verse
By N Shashi Kala“Poetry is a mirror which makes beautiful that which is distorted.” – Percy B Shelly LIKE millions across the world, I tuned in to watch Barack Obama being sworn in as US president on 20 Jan 2009. Throughout the two-hour long inauguration ceremony, I was captivated by the occasion’s momentousness, and the speeches that […]
Media banning is legal
By Zedeck Siew“This is nothing. Why do you call it a crackdown? This is quite normal. We always give reminders to newspapers or political parties which publish organs regardless of whether it is the BN or other parties.” DEPUTY Home Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung, who said the suspension of two opposition party newspapers under the Printing […]
A referendum on our future
By Wong Chin HuatTHE Bukit Gantang by-election has one overriding meaning. The by-election for this parliamentary seat in Perak is not about local development, as the Barisan Nasional (BN) would describe it. Neither will the election results determine Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s job as prime minister, as some opposition supporters would hope for. Voters in Bukit Gantang will […]
