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Chua Soi Lek

Khairy: Ditch Malay dominance (Updated 12:55pm)

By Shanon Shah

October 14, 2009

Updated 12:55pm, 14 Oct 2009 Khairy delivering his speech KUALA LUMPUR, 14 Oct 2009: In a bold and surprising move, Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin has called for his party to ditch “Malay dominance” and replace it with “Malay leadership” in order to reframe its nationalist agenda. “We can continue with the chest-thumping rhetoric, warning […]

MCA’s irrelevant civil war

By Wong Chin Huat

October 7, 2009

IF you believe that media reports reflect reality, you would think that the infighting in the MCA is the most important issue the Chinese Malaysian community is grappling with. Nothing could be further from the truth. Among young Chinese Malaysians, the apolitical ones would not know what the 10 Oct 2009 extraordinary general meeting (EGM) […]

Ong vs Chua

By Deborah Loh

September 14, 2009

Strong-headed: Ong Tee Keat (left) and Chua Soi Lek THERE are two heavyweights currently in the MCA ring. But what do party president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat and his sacked deputy Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek represent? And what consequence will the fight between the both of them have? After all, the split […]

Soi Lek denies forming new party

September 11, 2009

PETALING JAYA, 11 Sept 2009: Sacked MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek today denied that he and his supporters were forming a new party. Instead, Chua blamed party president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat for the speculation. “All I want is to be a normal member of the MCA when I retire […]

Tee Keat says EGM to prevent split

September 3, 2009

KUALA LUMPUR, 3 Sept 2009: MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat said today his decision to call for an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) was to prevent a split in the party.                                                   Delegates at the EGM can decide whether to support or reject the resolutions for the party at the ballot box, he said in […]

Soi Lek takes a break after being sacked from MCA

August 27, 2009

KUALA LUMPUR, 27 Aug 2009: Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek, who was sacked from the MCA yesterday, wants to take a short vacation with “family and friends” and rest. Writing in his blog, the former party deputy president did not indicate if he would appeal within 14 days. Neither did he comment on speculation […]

Soi Lek summoned to appear before MCA disciplinary board

July 16, 2009

KUALA LUMPUR, 16 July 2009: MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has been summoned to appear before the party’s disciplinary board next month over a complaint filed by a division chief on his involvement in a sex DVD scandal. A party source said today the five-member board headed by former secretary-general and […]

Liberalisation welcomed with caution

July 1, 2009

PETALING JAYA, 1 July 2009: The government’s economic liberalisation measures are welcome – as long as they don’t get strangled by red tape, politicians from across the divide and think tanks said today. These individuals and groups supported the removal of the 30% bumiputera shareholder quota for publicly listed companies, the increase in foreign shareholding […]

Who’s afraid of Indonesian maids?

By Yow Hong Chieh

June 26, 2009

Chua Soi Lek questions the impact of giving a day off to domestic helpers MAIDS are people too. But you would not think so judging from the shockingly negative response from employers of domestic helpers to government legislation making one day of leave per week mandatory. Opposition to this law has laid bare the knee-jerk […]

Soi Lek: More maids run away than are abused

By Gan Pei Ling

June 25, 2009

PETALING JAYA, 25 June 2009: MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has described the government’s decision to give domestic workers a mandatory weekly off-day as a “knee-jerk reaction”. He said Malaysians should not “overreact” to cases of abused domestic workers, claiming that there were only around 50 reported cases of abused domestic […]

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