KUALA LUMPUR, 11 March 2009: Umno is renting 40 scanners from Angkatan Koperasi Kebangsaan Malaysia Berhad (Angkasa) to handle computerised voting at the party’s polls at the end of this month. Umno executive secretary Brig Gen (Rtd) Datuk Husainay Hashim told Bernama today Umno’s management committee approved the move to save time and ensure transparency. […]
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Will Perak snap?
By Shanon Shah and Zedeck SiewTarnished silver (© Chris Deraud / sxc.hu) THE silver state is in crisis, with the Pakatan Raykat-led state government having lost its majority in the legislative assembly with four assemblypersons leaving its fold. Now, with the Perak government in limbo, experts tell The Nut Graph that the best option for the formation of a state […]
Defections unethical, says Khairy
By Jacqueline Ann Surin and Shanon ShahKUALA LUMPUR, 3 Feb 2009: Umno Youth chief aspirant Khairy Jamaluddin said he is opposed to party-hopping because it is unethical, but he will not support anti-hopping legislation. “I personally have written and spoken about party-hopping being unethical, and I would hold that line. “But when there’s no legislation preventing it from happening, you can […]
SUPP’s Soon Choon Teck resigns from party post
SIBU, 23 Jan 2009: Sarawak United People’s Party (SUPP) veteran Datuk Dr Soon Choon Teck today announced his resignation as its assistant publicity secretary, a post he had been holding since 1991. He told reporters here that he resigned as he could no longer function effectively in the post. He said he was very […]
The Muharram dilemma
By Marina MahathirThe Sultan Ahmed mosque in Istanbul (© Travis Reitter. Source: wikipedia.org) MY mother used to tell us children that she was born on Awal Muharram, the Muslim New Year. This was a matter of trivial interest to us because we think of her birthday as falling on 12 July. That date happened to fall on […]
