Geo Politics

Datuk Seri Tajuddin Abdul Rahman reminded the UMNO leaders who are critical of Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi that their selection to contest in the upcoming general election rests on the party president. UMNO elections director Tajuddin Abdul Rahman said that Ahmad Zahid remains the president until the GE 15 since the party’s internal poll has been delayed. He said …

A senior Sabah leader said that the state must take action to enact its own public health legislation in the future. Deputy chief minister Datuk Seri Jeffrey Kitingan said that as public health falls under both the state and the federal jurisdiction, discussions must be made with Putrajaya first before Sabah can enact its own health laws. In a statement, …

Dissident Srisuwan Janya will on Saturday appeal the National Anti Corruption Commission (NACC) to test the direct of 277 MPs who caused a House meeting on Wednesday to fall. An absence of majority constrained House Speaker Chuan Leekpai to dismiss the meeting held to discuss draft enactment on unsafe substances. Just 206 out of 483 MPs proclaimed themselves present, bringing …

As President Duterte checked yesterday the beginning of his last year in office, a top Malacañang official said the Chief Executive is leaving the administration without having eased up in his battle against illicit medications while managing the Covid pandemic. As indicated by official representative Harry Roque Jr., the President invests wholeheartedly by they way he dealt with the country …

The Bayanihan to Recover as One Act or Bayanihan 2 terminated yesterday with about P9 billion in reserves implied for pandemic reaction programs left unutilized. With no further augmentation of the law, these assets will be returned to the public depository, leaving the tasks for which they were dispensed hanging, said Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez. The Cagayan de Oro representative …

The Yang di-Pertuan Agong declared in the Parliament that they should be meeting again as soon as possible to allow for the Emergency declaration and Emergency laws to be presented in Parliament. This comes after the King granted an audience at Istana Negara to Dewan Negara Speaker Tan Sri Rais Yatim and Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun in …

After President Rodrigo Duterte‘s rant against him for calling out debasement in government, Sen. Manny Pacquiao on Tuesday reviewed that it was the CEO who originally said that bad authorities keep on plagueing the country. In continuation of the public quarrel among the decision PDP-Laban’s initiative, party executive Duterte during a broadcast address tried Pacquiao, the gathering’s acting president, to …

The sanction change bid has moved into a stage where it has been chosen what spaces of the preeminent rule that everyone must follow will be etched away at or totally hacked off.  Most gatherings at first concocted their own adaptations of the correction charge that spelt out which segments of the constitution they thought needed change. The resistance Move …

The P18.4-billion unutilized assets under Bayanihan 2 will in all probability be gotten back to the public depository following President Duterte’s inability to require an extraordinary meeting of Congress for motivations behind stretching out the assets to battle the COVID-19 pandemic. The cutoff time is as of now on June 30 since they need time to hold an exceptional meeting. …

The Pakatan Harapan (PH) Presidential Council said that Attorney General (AG) Tan Sri Idrus Harun must be removed from his post effective immediately for issuing a public statement to clarify the legal position under the Federal Constitution regarding the King’s constitutional functions to summon for Parliament to meet which is clearly a breach of confidentiality. In a statement, PH said …