A special website to monitor how funds to implement the two economic stimulus packages are being spent will be launched next week, Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Kong Cho Ha told the Dewan Negara Tuesday.
He said the website, www.rangsanganekonomi.treasury.gov.my, would enlighten the public on the programmes, projects and progress of both packages.
“We are being transparent on [...]
Sarawak chief Tan Sri Taib Mahmud was stung by “personality attacked” while campaigning at Lubok Antu. Taib however insisted the state BN would maintain the ‘Sarawak way’ of campaigning and not resort to opposition politics of personal attacks and rowdy behaviour. Borneo Post reports:
“I don’t like this … people who make personal attacks have no [...]
The state and federal departments and agencies have been urged to cooperate in an effort to speed up development projects in Sarawak.
Chief Minister Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said he welcomed federal departments and agencies to use the Sarawak government machineries and the coordinating agency in the rural areas.
“We are open and willing to cooperate… [...]
CIMB Group is offering its 36,000 staff extended unpaid leave under the “Staff Rejuvenation Programme” from next month.
Group chief executive, Datuk Seri Nazir Razak, emphasised that the programme was not to lay off workers but to give them an option to take extended unpaid leave of between one and six months.
On whether the programme would [...]
The big number of independent candidates contesting in the Bukit Selambau state seat by-election on April 7 is a manifestation of the uncertain political situation in Kedah, according to a political analyst.
Dr Azeem Fazwan Ahmad Faruq, a political science lecturer at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), said 13 independent candidates contesting against Barisan Nasional’s (BN) Datuk [...]
In the Bukit Selambau state by-election, the Barisan Nasional (BN) will have greater focus on ‘hotspots’ through a strategy of reaching out to voters via a concerted BN component parties effort.
Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Hishammudin Tun Hussein said he will ensure that each BN component party worked together as these areas had many young voters.
To [...]
Bernama reports:
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and wife Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali took Umno delegates by surprise today when they emerged at the Merdeka Hall, Putra World Trade Centre, where the final day of the Umno General Assembly was underway.
The former Umno president arrived at about 12.30pm at a time when newly-elected Umno [...]
The newly minted Umno president Datuk Seri najib Tun Razak warned that the results of Bukit Gantang, Bukit Selambau and Batang Air by-elections may not necessarily be a good indicator of people’s support of BN!
“The trouble of by-election is that it is very hard to say to what extend it reflects the national consideration.
“Of course [...]
