YOURSAY | ‘We will soon see another round of hearsay applications.’ Court bins Najib's leave action over house arrest Vijay47: I will not compliment the court’s decision… as it might be offensive to His Lordship. For the simple reason that former prime minister Najib Abdul Razak, for all his desperation, should not even have dared make such a pathetic, hopeless application destined to fail ab initio, as lawyers love to say. The dismissal was a foregone conclusion, one that even the judge’s driver would have reached. The same goes with his tea lady. It is astounding that Najib would have filed ...
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YOURSAY | ‘Why the fuss over a shirt when he is decently dressed?’ PM rebukes home minister over dress code blunder Methink: Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim and Hulu Terengganu MP Rosol Wahid should be reprimanded instead for not sticking up for national pride and sustainability. Batik should be worn daily. Why are we aping what they wear in the West when it is unsuited to our climate and needs Arctic-level temperature air conditioning to allow comfort? Batik is our national identity and is environmentally friendly because the air-con temperature can be increased and batik material can be sourced...
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Good morning. Here's what you should know today. Key Highlights 'Wait-and-see' RON95 policy Meritocracy with quotas Ultramarathon for equal funding 'Wait-and-see' RON95 policy Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim says the government is resolute in making decisions for the country's good, even when it is unpopular. However, Anwar also indicated that the government will not be rushing to pull blanket subsidies for RON95. Anwar told Parliament that there is a policy paper ready for quick implementation yet. He also said that the government wants to look at the impact of rationalisation of electricity, di...
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YOURSAY | ‘If quota for non-Malays remains unchanged at 10 percent, what is the point?’ Lifting barrier on matriculation to ease racial tensions – Anwar Vijay47: Despite my hesitancy, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, I will take your statement at face value, as an expression of a sincere desire to heal wounds and introduce changes for the benefit of all Malaysians. But where necessary, I will nevertheless state my opinions, contrary as they might be, and perhaps my suggestion to improve the fresh direction you seem to embark on. After ages of being abandoned in the wilderness, non-Malay children ...
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Good morning. Here's what you should know today. Key Highlights Angry royals Race quotas Anwar's Hamas line Angry royals Last Wednesday, Selangor's Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah rebuked the Malaysian Football League (MFL) for fining Selangor FC RM100,000 and docking points. This is after Selangor FC skipped a charity match with JDT - that it wanted to postpone but was rejected - out of fear of attacks against its players. A day after the rebuke, the MFL lightened its sentence on Selangor FC. This, in turn, triggered JDT owner and Johor regent Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim, who railed that errant...
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Good morning. Here's what you should know today. Key Highlights Has the US found Jho Low? Alternatives to MP pensions? Is Langkawi for Muslims only? Has the US found Jho Low? In a surprise announcement, the US Department of Justice revealed that it had cut a major deal to recover more than US$100 million in assets procured using funds stolen from 1MDB. The deal was cut with none other than the alleged 1MDB mastermind, Low Taek Jho. The DOJ did not reveal how it had got in touch with Low, or whether they knew his current whereabouts. It is also unclear what motivated Low to cooperate with the D...
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UPDATED 4.44PM | Added Linaco’s response to article. Official Israeli data show that dozens of food products from companies in Malaysia have reached importers in Israel for sale in the local market or as ingredients in food manufacturing there. This is despite a staunch anti-Israel diplomatic stance, including a trade sanction by Malaysia, especially amid the ongoing violence in Gaza which erupted on Oct 7 last year. However, some Malaysian manufacturers who responded to requests for comment denied they exported goods to Israel and did not know their products were listed on the Israel database...
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YOURSAY | ‘Politicians who support it are working against the people.’ 96pct of Mkini readers want MP pensions replaced with EPF Koel: It looks like, for the past 60-plus years, Malaysian politicians have been busy lavishly spending the rakyat’s money on themselves as their retirement pensions. Malaysia enjoyed a brief moment of apparent wealth, so people did not ask questions about this nor were they allowed to. It looks like all these acts, like the Official Secrets Act, were useful weapons to prevent people from finding out more about the highly paid status of politicians and ex-politicians...
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YOURSAY | ‘It smacks of double-talk and hypocrisy.’ PM: Sounds good, but not realistic to cancel all Israel-related deals Apanama is back: Your words have come back to bite you, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim. The key word here is “realistic”. People like you live in some other world but return to the real world when it suits you. What kind of split personality is this? Anything involving funds/money is called Israel-linked, and when it comes to supremacy, it becomes Israel-based. What is the difference between Israel-linked and Israel-based? Is Israel linked to the first class while Israel-base...
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Good morning. Here's what you should know today. Key Highlights Umno top two at odds over Blackrock Govt moves to censure Wan Saiful Madani govt not wooing PAS Umno top two at odds over Blackrock Umno's top two leaders do not appear to see eye to eye on plans to sell Malaysia Airport Holdings Berhad shares to a Blackrock-linked company. On Sunday, Umno deputy president Mohamad Hasan told the media that the party's ministers had voiced disagreement in cabinet about the deal. However, on Tuesday, Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi walked back those comments and said Mohamad's views were personal....
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