Posted in Parliament on Jun 26th, 2008 6 Comments »
PM Abdullah is delivering his speech on the Mid-term Review of the 9th Malaysian Plan.
He started his speech at 11:30hr.
We MPs received the full document on Monday (23 June). The 120-odd-page document is published in two versions, English and Malay. We will be debating this document next week.
In his usual monotonic style, Pak Lah is […]
Posted in Human Rights, Parliament on Jun 25th, 2008 3 Comments »
I received a reply from the Secretary of Dewan Rakyat yesterday (24 June) informed me that my question on Waytha Moorthy was rejected.
I submitted a question to the Home Minister requesting clarification whether Waytha Moorthy who is now living in exile in UK would be arrested upon his return. If yes, under what act?
The ground […]
Posted in Freedom of Information, Parliament on Jun 25th, 2008 5 Comments »
Something odd happened this morning (24 June). When I entered the Parliament, the lobby was empty. The usual flock of journalists banished from the scene.
Later I realized that the Parliament has made a new ruling that journalists are not allowed to hang around in the lobby. In fact, the restriction went beyond that. Besides the […]
Posted in Visual, Parliament, Fuel Hike on Jun 23rd, 2008 7 Comments »
This morning (23 June), a few of KeADILan MPs decided to ride bicycle to the Parliament. Gobalakrishnan, Hee Loy Sian, Zulnordin and I gathered at Bank Negara and biking to the Parliament House.
The action was to highlight the hardship and impracticality of changing lifestyle. Even if the people wanted to change lifestyle: using bicycle, or […]
Posted in Parliament on May 28th, 2008 14 Comments »
A new landmark for Malaysian Parliament.
After a few days of debating on the Supplementary Supply Bill, this morning (28 May 2008) the Parliament proceeded to vote on the bill.
Before the voting, the floor was debating expenses for Le Tour de Langkawi, the Champion Youth Cup (CYC) soccer matches, etc. MPs from the opposition criticized the […]
Posted in Politics, Parliament on May 27th, 2008 13 Comments »
Maybank claimed that it was a good deal. The management of Maybank placed a bid to buy over Banking International Indonesia (BII) for USD 2.7 billion or RM 8.6 billion dollars—a price so high that all other bidders including HSBC and China Bank decided to back off.
Today (27 May) noon, Maybank CEO Datuk Seri Abdul […]
Posted in Viewpoint, Parliament on May 27th, 2008 6 Comments »
In answering question from PAS Padang Terap MP Nasir Zakaria, Deputy Minister of Education Idris Haron said that academic standard of Malaysian universities is not as bad as the opposition described. When Nazir tried to interject, the Deputy Minister responded rudely. A debate broke out between both sides. Deputy Minister Idris shouted a Tamil word […]
Posted in Parliament on May 21st, 2008 7 Comments »
The new Information Minister Ahmad Shabery Chik would like to be seen as an liberal minded BN man.
I knew him when he was in opposition. As the Youth Chief of Semangat 46, he should have understood the evil of press control, restrictive media access etc.
Now he is wearing different shoes, I fully understand that he […]
Posted in Housing, Parliament on May 20th, 2008 8 Comments »
Is this lifestyle not worth preserving?
I am hearing lots of craps from Mohamad Taib (we are debating poverty eradication with Minister of Rural Development this afternoon 20/5/2008):
We are building PPRT (Projek Perumahan Rakyat Termiskin/Housing Project for the Poor) for Orang Asli. The BN Government is taking care of their welfare.
However we also need to educate […]
Posted in Viewpoint, Parliament on May 17th, 2008 9 Comments »
In my delivery of speech during the debate of the Royal Address (I spoke on 13 May), I lashed out at a series of failures of the Defence Minister.
I was particularly upset with the continuous sacrifice of lives in the National Service Training Program. I blamed this on the ambition of the Minister who wanted […]