Malaysia

Malaysia – The Penang Chinese business community, according to its spokesman Hong Yeam Wah, would never welcome or invite corrupt politicians to the state or any of its activities. The head of the Penang Chinese Chamber of Commerce (PCCC) informed Malaysiakini that members of the organisation had neither invited or greeted Umno politician Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who visited the city …

Malaysia – Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin stated today that Umno ministers gathered at a hotel in Putrajaya yesterday morning for breakfast since they hadn’t broken bread in a long time. He went on to say that the gathering was not intended to discuss dissolving Parliament. His remarks came after Utusan Malaysia reported on the meeting earlier in the day, claiming …

Malaysia – The Sessions Court sentenced Indonesian Ellis Andreyani to two years in prison on March 23 after she confessed to physically abusing a one-year-old toddler in her care last year. The 47-year-old woman has lived in Malaysia for seven years and is married to a Malaysian. When Sessions Court judge Mazdi Abdul Hamid read the punishment, he added, “The …

Malaysia – Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail, the PKR secretary-general, claimed the party has kicked off 11,000 members who were proven to have supported previous party leaders implicated in the Sheraton Move, which destroyed the Pakatan Harapan (PH) government just 22 months after it won Putrajaya. Saifuddin added during a livestream interview that PKR‘s disciplinary board had worked around the …

Malaysia – Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal, the leader of the Sabah Opposition, has denied any connection with the descendants of the former Sulu Sultanate who are seeking a claim in Sabah. He also disputed charges that he was in Spain during an arbitration hearing in 2019 while he was the governor of Sabah. Instead, the Parti Warisan president chastised …

Malaysia – Dr Boo Cheng Hau, the outspoken chairman of the Johor DAP, has called on Lim Guan Eng, the party’s newly nominated national chairman, to resign owing to his current corruption case. He believes Lim should resign and let DAP‘s recently elected central executive committee (CEC) members free of burden in order for the party to move forward, rebuild …

Malaysia – If the anti-party hopping Bill is not presented and enacted during this Parliament session, Pakatan Harapan (PH) is prepared to go to the streets. Mohamad Sabu, a member of the Parti Amanah Negara (Amanah) in Kota Raja, said his party’s members are prepared to take to the streets if they are ignored when they speak up in Parliament …

Malaysia – The National Book Council of Malaysia (MBKM) stated that a new online portal for selling books is neither meant to be a monopoly, nor does it imply that the government-linked council is entering the corporate world. MBKM clarified that it was not receiving a 20% commission from Bukuku.my, a new digital book-selling platform, and that the 20% rate …

Malaysia – According to human rights organization Pusat Komas, which tracked 51 such events posted on online news media last year, Malaysia has experienced an increase in publicized incidences of racial discrimination. Pusat Komas, which has collected complaints of acts of racism for the previous seven years and released its “Malaysia Racial Discrimination Report 2021” on March 21, stated there …

Malaysia – If the DAP wants to stay relevant and capture Malaysians’ hearts, it must continually attract new and better people, according to the party’s expelled national publicity secretary Tony Pua, who was removed from the senior leadership committee after failing to keep his position. Despite the fact that there are more seats this time — from 20 to 30 …