KUALA LUMPUR, 10 Nov 2008: The Dewan Rakyat today uncharacteristically accepted an opposition motion – to debate the Bukit Antarabangsa landslide. Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia accepted the motion which was tabled by Mohamed Azmin Ali (PKR-Gombak) as per Standing Rule 18(1). “The issue meets the specific requirement, that it is of public interest […]
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Wong won’t quit Senate deputy president post
By Ng Boon HooiPETALING JAYA, 25 Nov 2008: Newly-appointed MCA secretary-general Datuk Wong Foon Meng said he will not quit his post as Senate deputy president. “The issue of resignation does not arise at all,” Wong told The Nut Graph when asked whether he would tender his resignation after his appointment as secretary-general in the new MCA line-up […]
Local councillors need not be professionals
KUALA LUMPUR, 20 Nov 2008: The Housing and Local Government Ministry has no plans to make a ruling that only professionals can be appointed as local authority councillors. The ministry also would not stop state governments from appointing only professionals to sit in local authority councils, Deputy Minister Datuk Hamzah Zainudin told the Dewan Rakyat […]
Two DAP MPs ordered out of Dewan Rakyat
KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Nov 2008: Two DAP members of parliament (MPs) Fong Po Kuan (Batu Gajah) and Chong Chieng Jen (Bandar Kuching) were ordered to leave the Dewan Rakyat today after they questioned a decision by Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia. Fong had earlier rose and said that Pandikar Amin was ignoring her request […]
