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Barisan Nasional has managed to repeat its Melaka state election victory, winning two-thirds majority (40 out of 56 seats) again in the Johor state election on Saturday (March 12), despite scooping only 43.11% of all ballots cast. All the opposition parties grabbed the remaining 16 seats, even though they had won the popular votes (56.89%). […]
... written on Mar 14 2022Is the tearful episode involving single mother Loh Siew Hong, whose three children were converted to Islam without her knowledge, over? It appears not, judging by the MAIPS’ (Perlis Islamic Religious and Malay Customs Council) latest intervention to ensure the underage kids remain converted, despite recent court’s decision to award Loh the full custody of […]
... written on Mar 10 2022When Muhyiddin Yassin betrayed his friends and allies in the Pakatan Harapan namely PKR, DAP and Amanah in early 2020, he was on cloud nine. He was actually very proud of himself not because he finally managed to fulfil his ambition to become a prime minister, but because he thought he was a genius, outsmarting […]
... written on Mar 07 2022Najib Razak has every reason to smile, if the feedback from ethnic Chinese during his two recent visits is any indicator. First, the former prime minister visited the Foon Yew High School, the top Chinese independent school in the country. He was given an opportunity to speak at the school, despite being the first Malaysian […]
... written on Feb 28 2022Two UMNO leaders, Ahmad Maslan and Shahrir Samad, were charged with money laundering in January 2020 for having received RM2 million and RM1 million respectively from former Prime Minister Najib Razak. The money was part of at least US$4.5 billion stolen from 1MDB sovereign funds. Both politicians got into trouble for failure to declare the […]
... written on Feb 26 2022Najib Razak, the disgraced former prime minister of Malaysia, is appealing his corruption convictions after being sentenced to 12 years’ jail and fined RM210 million. The High Court delivered the guilty verdict in July 2020 for abuse of power, criminal breach of trust (CBT), and money laundering – all involving RM42 million stolen from SRC […]
... written on Feb 23 2022Supermax Corp Bhd, a Malaysian medical glove maker that produces up to 2.4 billion pieces of gloves annually – accounting for 12% of the world demand – has scrapped a plan to purchase two pieces of freehold land in Setia Alam, Selangor. The company is no small potato as it supplies about 20% of gloves […]
... written on Feb 16 2022People in general don’t really care about the Covid-19 cases anymore. At least, they are not as concerned as before. They have done everything as instructed, included practicing social distancing and wearing masks, not to mention taking the booster vaccine shot. In fact, some have even begun to suspect the effectiveness of the Covid-19 vaccine. […]
... written on Feb 11 2022Azmin Ali and Zuraida Kamaruddin were two of the top PKR leaders (People’s Justice Party), not to mention the rising star, before they stunningly betrayed the party. Their betrayal led to the collapse of the democratically-elected Pakatan Harapan (PH) government in March 2020. Azmin and Zuraida were the party’s deputy president and vice-president respectively before […]
... written on Feb 07 2022Once upon a time, former PM Mahathir Mohamad had warned Muhyiddin Yassin against working together with UMNO, predicting that the two parties would face problems in the future. Mahathir warned his trusted lieutenant – “You’re going to have trouble with UMNO because UMNO is the bigger party. You are the smaller party and you’ll depend […]
... written on Jan 28 2022
