KUCHING: Hudud would never be practiced in Sarawak, says Adenan Satem, the state’s chief minister, after a leadership meeting of the ruling Parti Pesaka Bumiputra Bersatu. “We will not support the so-called hudud bill. We are a multi-racial country. Muslims only constitute 25 percent (of Sarawak’s population). We are not Kelantan,” he said after chairing…
Saya pergi ke pencalonan di Sungai Besar bersama dengan pembantu saya Edmund Teoh dan Puan Ng Yoot Kuen pagi ini. Kami mencari lokasi pusat pencalonan, iaitu Dewan Sri Bernam di Sungai Besar dengan menggunakan Waze Kerana saya memang tidak berapa tahu tentang kawasan ini. Kereta saya masuk ke satu jalan kecil yang menuju ke arah…
PETALING JAYA: Parliamentary affairs minister Azalina Othman has explained how the private member’s bill proposed by Abdul Hadi Awang was given precedence in the Dewan Rakyat last week. In the face of opposition demands to know if she had obtained Cabinet approval for her actions, Azalina made a distinction between parliamentary procedure and government affairs….
KOTA BARU, June 2 — PAS today approved without debate several motions urging the party to reconsider its relationship with PKR, leaving the final decision in the hands of the influential Syura Council. PAS information chief Nasrudin Hassan revealed that the muktamar received at least three motions to review ties with PKR. Among the reasons…
KUALA LUMPUR: If MCA President Liow Tiong Lai was serious about opposing the hudud Bill, he must not give ambiguous or confusing and wrong messages to the Prime Minister, said Seputeh MP Teresa Kok in a statement. The immediate and minimum action that Liow should do, added Kok, was to announce MCA’s total boycott of…
After more than a week of endless statements by MCA ministers on the government’s move to prioritize Hadi’s Private Member’s Bill in Parliament, it is becoming clearer that MCA lacks consistency and seriousness in opposing the Bill. If MCA is serious and consistent on its stand against the Private Member’s Bill, the minimum they should…
KOTA BARU: The changed ways of Umno and Barisan Nasional now would have been one approved by the late Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, says PAS youth chief. Nik Mohd Abduh Nik Aziz (pic), while delivering his closing speech at the PAS youth wing Muktamar claimed that the government which used to be aggressive…
KOTA BARU, June 1 ― The women’s wing of PAS approved a motion today to sever ties with political ally PKR, just a year after cutting all links with DAP. The motion, proposed by the wing’s Kedah delegation, cited PKR’s cooperation with PAS offshoot Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) as among the key reasons. “Following the…