KUALA LUMPUR, 12 March 2009: Sabah’s Ranau Member of Parliament (MP) Datuk Siringan Gubat (BN-Ranau) today became the first backbencher to be ordered to leave a sitting of the Dewan Rakyat since it convened in April last year. Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia ordered Siringan out after he used the word “ngam” (“correct” in […]
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Perak state assembly secretary suspended
IPOH, 2 March 2009: Perak state assembly Speaker V Sivakumar today announced that he was suspending the assembly’s secretary Abdullah Antong Sabri with immediate effect. Sivakumar also declared that the emergency sitting of the assembly, scheduled for tomorrow, would go ahead as planned. Speaking at a press conference at his law office here, Sivakumar said […]
Zambry, exco will not be hasty
IPOH, 20 Feb 2009: Newly-appointed Menteri Besar Datuk Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said he and his six state executive councillors do not want to be hasty like the Speaker from the Pakatan Rakyat who suspended them from attending the state assembly. “We don’t want to be like them. We will use the law to resolve […]
Stolen Tabung Haji funds will be returned
BANGI, 19 Jan 2009: The government has assured Tabung Haji depositors that misappropriated monies will be returned in full, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi. “Depositors will not lose one sen as Tabung Haji is a corporation that is fully guaranteed by the government,” he said when commenting […]
Two Tabung Haji employees suspended
KOTA KINABALU, 17 Jan 2009: Two employees of the Sandakan branch of Lembaga Tabung Haji have been suspended over the alleged withdrawal of a sum totalling RM300,000 from the saving accounts of its members. Tabung Haji Group corporate affairs and communication general manager Abdul Rashid Hussein said an internal investigation was conducted after an account […]
Umno div head suspended for sabotaging party (Updated)
Updated 22 Dec 2008, 5.45pm KUALA LUMPUR, 22 Dec 2008: The Umno disciplinary board suspended the membership of Pokok Sena Umno division head Datuk Ahmad Lebai Sudin for two years effective 17 Dec, after finding him guilty of sabotaging the party in the 8 March general election. Disciplinary board chairperson Tan Sri Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen […]
