Geo Politics

Buhay party-list Representative Lito Atienza on Monday reported that Speaker Alan Peter Cayetano was moving to declare all vacancies vacant in the House of Representatives and call for a new vote on the speakership to void his term-sharing agreement with Representative Lord Allan Velasco of Marinduque. In Monday’s interview with reporters, Atienza said he had details. The party-list rep insisted …

KUALA LUMPUR – In a report released on Friday, the Pakatan Harapan (PH) presidential council states that Anwar gets the most number of nominations from MPs based on a system that was set by the Yang Di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah several days ago. This is regardless of the palace’s statement which the Agong confirmed that he …

KUALA LUMPUR – The Edge reported Friday evening that Tan Sri Tommy Thomas filed his resignation as Malaysia’s Attorney General. A source says that Thomas sent his letter to the interim prime minister who appointed him as AG. Thomas was the Attorney General from June 2018, marking his second term this year. As AG, he was persistent to go after …

Data shows that about 60 percent of village heads (kades) did not graduate from the High School (SMA). For this reason, the Minister of Home Affairs (Mendagri) Tito Karnavian asked law enforcement agencies such as the police and prosecutors not to directly process the law of the village head who made mistakes in managing village fund administration. “The mismanagement of …

A group of Democrat Party MPs targeting Deputy Agriculture Minister Thamanat Prompow, who won the fewest votes in Friday’s no-confidence vote, said Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha must work on improving the government’s image. Gen Prayut and five other cabinet ministers survived the no-confidence vote, though two were not grilled during the four-day debate. Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon walked away …

With the current political turbulence that has been happening in Malaysia recently, it was revealed by Tun Mahathir himself that he was proposing to lead a unity government by inviting lawmakers from across the Opposition parties to join him. Tun Mahathir himself proposed the idea of a non-partisan and grand coalition ,a move that would see the country being governed …

PUTRAJAYA – Prime Minister’s wife Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali stopped by and distributed chocolates to journalist waiting outside Perdana Putra today. On her way to the Prime Minister’s Office at around 10am, she stopped by at the entrance to greet about 30 media personnel waiting there. Siti Hasmah handed out buckets of chocolates as she passed by a …

KUALA LUMPUR – Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has agreed to return as chairman of Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) three days after he quit as Malaysian PM. Party secretary-general Marzuki Yahya confirmed in a statement on Thursday, that Bersatu’s supreme council has unanimously rejected Mahathir’s resignation as party chief in a meeting last Tuesday. “Following the meetings today and YAB …

PUTRAJAYA – Dr Mahathir’s first official act as the interim prime minister of Malaysia was the announcement of RM20-billion stimulus lot to support the economy against the effects of the Covid-19 outbreak. Dr Mahathir also complimented the country’s health workers for efficiently holding Covid-19 in Malaysia. The country’s economic forecast was also reported today to grow at between 3.2 and …

KUALA LUMPUR – Dr Mahathir said the Yang di-Pertuan Agong trusts that Parliament is the proper venue to determine the crisis caused by the collapse of the Pakatan Harapan federal government. “Because the Agong did not get anyone with a definite majority, after two days of interview with federal lawmakers, the proper assembly would then be the Parliament”, says Mahathir. …