KUALA LUMPUR, 11 March 2009: MIC presidential aspirant Datuk M Muthupalaniappan has charged that several MIC leaders are using underhanded tactics to interfere with his bid for the party’s top post. Such below-the-belt tactics, he said, were deployed to ensure incumbent MIC president Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu won the post uncontested. The 66-year-old leader […]
BN candidate for Batang Ai to be known on Saturday
KUCHING, 11 March 2009: The Barisan Nasional (BN) candidate for the Batang Ai state by-election will be known by Saturday, 14 March. Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud, who is also state BN chairperson, said the decision would be known after a meeting of state BN component parties to be held that day. The […]
MACC’s purpose
By Zedeck Siew“We would suggest that legal action and so on be taken, as we have strong evidence for both the cases that abuse of power has taken place.” MALAYSIAN Anti-Corruption Commission or MACC chief commissioner Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan, commenting on the oversight body’s investigation of Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim. Ahmad Said […]
Scorn for mobile porn
By R GaneshI READ with disgust the article Ahmad Said: Not fair to link me to son’s offence in The Star, where chief commissioner of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) Datuk Seri Ahmad Said Hamdan implied that most Malaysian men carry pornography in their handphones. (Pic by Svilen Mushkatov / sxc.hu)The reality is that most Malaysian men […]
Taming the unelected
By Wong Chin Huat(Illustration by Nick Choo) AS we celebrate the first anniversary of the historic 8 March 2008 general election, our democratic institutions are now in danger of being attacked by unelected institutions. These include the palace, the bureaucracy, the police, the judiciary, and the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). And if the last and the most powerful […]
“No long-term impact from larger deficit”
By BFM 89.9CIMB Investment Bank regional rates and foreign exchange strategist Suresh Kumar Ramanathan says in an interview with BFM 89.9 that the 7.6% fiscal deficit arising from the RM60 billion stimulus package announced today will have no long-term significant impact. “From a macro perspective, it looks large, but in times such as these, every country is […]
“Surprising” stimulus package
By BFM 89.9OSK Securities research head Chris Eng tells BFM 89.9 in an interview that the RM60 billion stimulus package announced was larger than expected, and had several surprising measures. Eng says the property and construction sectors will be the main beneficiary of the stimulus package, while the auto and plantation sectors will be smaller beneficiaries. The […]
Perak, language issues and Kugan
By The Nut Graph and BFM 89.9FROM 2 to 8 Mar 2009, both the Chinese media and the Malay press looked at the ongoing political impasse in Perak. Both also highlighted the objections to the teaching of mathematics and science in English. The Tamil press focused on the shocking findings in A Kugan’s second autopsy. The Tamil papers also reported on […]
Package “impressive and impactful”
By BFM 89.9MAYBANK Investment Bank head of equity research Vincent Khoo describes the RM60 billion stimulus package announced today as “impressive”, saying that the measures announced under the package would have an impact on several areas. In an interview with BFM 89.9, Khoo says banks would benefit indirectly because the expected increase in non-performing loans would be […]
Najib unveils second stimulus package (Updated 5.55pm)
KUALA LUMPUR, 10 March 2009: The government has unveiled a second stimulus package worth RM60 billion to spur economic activity and help prevent a recession, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced today. Following are highlights of the package tabled by Najib, who is also Finance Minister, in the Dewan Rakyat. House buyers given […]
