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Syabas concession agreements: Why so secret?

Holding Court by Ding Jo-Ann

March 7, 2011

THE federal government has prevailed yet again in keeping secrets from the Malaysian public. On 25 Feb 2011, the Court of Appeal overturned a High Court decision compelling the disclosure of an audit report and a 2004 water concession agreement. How are the audit report and the agreement significant? And why did the Court of […]

Sivakumar’s lawyers file appeal

March 6, 2009

Corrected on 13 March 2009 at 12.30am cSpeaker V Sivakumar (File pic courtesy of Merdeka Review) IPOH, 6 March 2009: Lawyers representing Perak legislative assembly Speaker V Sivakumar today filed an appeal against the Ipoh High Court decision declaring the Speaker’s own lawyers as having no locus standi to represent him. One of them, Leong […]

Perak today, Malaysia tomorrow?

By Wong Chin Huat

March 6, 2009

Corrected on 6 March 2009 at 3.50pm (Corrected) PERAK was one of the biggest surprises after 8 March 2008. After some early difficulty in appointing the menteri besar (MB), the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) state government went on to perform well beyond expectations. The PR government has not only increased the state’s revenue by RM97 million or […]

Convoluted Perak crisis

Pictures by Wong Shu Qi

March 3, 2009

ON 3 March 2009, the Perak state assembly convened an “emergency sitting” under a tree about 100m away from the state secretariat building. The sitting, called by assembly Speaker V Sivakumar, was held at 10.20am in an open car park after police blocked assemblypersons from the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) from entering the Perak Darul Ridzuan […]

Tommy Thomas’s full statement

March 3, 2009

IPOH, 3 March 2009: This morning, the Ipoh High Court ruled that the lawyers engaged by Perak Speaker V Sivakumar had no locus standi to represent him. Tommy Thomas and several other lawyers were engaged by Sivakumar to represent him in a case filed by newly-appointed Menteri Besar Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir and six […]

Perak crisis deepens (Updated 1pm)

March 3, 2009

IPOH, 3 March 2009: Despite being blocked from entering the state secretariat building by police this morning, the Perak state assembly was able to hold its sitting in a car park. Bernama reports that state assembly Speaker V Sivakumar and 27 Pakatan Rakyat (PR) assemblypersons convened an “emergency sitting” under a tree, about 100m from […]

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