After a quick trip to Singapore over the weekend for a forum on Burma, Yours Truly is now in Bali to attend the 116th International Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting. If you think that’s fun, think again – I’ve been down with a nasty bug for the past two days. But what really cheered me up…
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Cooperative Commission Act
Today I participated in the debate of a new piece of law, the Cooperative Commission Act. I know very little about cooperative in Malaysia, but I am always ‘harassed’ by a guy who is very familiar with problems of cooperatives in Malaysia in the past few years. So when I see this bill and the…
Government’s position on FTA
PERTANYAAN : LISAN DARIPADA : Puan Teresa Kok Suh Sim Tarikh : 27 MAC 2007 SOALAN: Puan Teresa Kok Suh Sim (Seputeh) minta MENTERI HAL EHWAL DALAM NEGERI menyatakan jumlah pekerja asing yang telah ditangkap, ditahan atau dihantar balik ke negara asal mereka mengikut pecahan kewarganegaraan mereka pada tahun 2005,2006 dan suku pertama 2007. Sila…
Shrink numbers bad 4 mental health
Today the Dewan Rakyat debated on the supplementary bills of 2006. There was an item on Ministry of Health and I was thinking of something to say on allocation to this ministry. I then tapped a friend’s mind and asked him for some inspiration. He suggested I speak about the acute shortage of psychiatrists and…
Shabery Cheek disappoints
I had another blonde moment and thought Malaysia was still the chairman of NAM, so I continued to ask about the direction of NAM under the leadership of Malaysia, and what was the stand of NAM on Burma.
PAC visits damaged houses at Sri Petaling
A Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee delegation yesterday visited the houses at Sri Petaling (under my constituency) which were damaged because of the construction of KL-Putrajaya Highway. The delegation arrived at 8am by bus and visited the houses which Dato’ Shahrir and other BN MPs have visited last year. The same cracks on the wall were…
Parlimen Hari Ini chickens out
Parlimen Hari Ini did not show the provocative reply of Nazri, but instead it showed Chong Chieng Jen shouting bodoh,bodoh a number of times followed by Chong Eng saying ˇif the minister retracts his stupid reply, then I will retract mine tooˇ
Parlimen Hari Ini is Challenged
The MP of Jerai said that when the people see the way DAP MPs, especially the Opposition Leader, behave in Parliament, he’s afraid that they would not vote for us in next general election. We then shouted back that we are not afraid of this. The Speaker then said that when the people see the way the Jerai MP behave, they will be afraid of him too.