Malaysia – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, the opposition leader, and four elected representatives have filed applications for leave to appeal to the Federal Court against the Court of Appeal’s ruling to dismiss their appeal challenging Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s action in advising the Yang di-Pertuan Agong to suspend Parliament during the Emergency period. When reached, Anwar’s lawyer, Ramkarpal Singh, said …

Malaysia – Despite his personal health concerns, Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today called for a halt to party politics in order to concentrate on aiding the tens of thousands of people who have been affected by the recent floods throughout the Malaysian peninsula. Former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said that the massive size of floods that have …

Malaysia – To enable the Dewan Rakyat to discuss and vote on proposed amendments to the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act (Act 342), Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob has consented to prolong the current Dewan Rakyat meeting. He has also agreed to postpone Monday’s amended Bill proceedings. The extension was made by Speaker Tan Sri Azhar …

Malaysia – Dr Kelvin Yii Lee Wuen of the DAP has urged for strong governance in Sarawak to safeguard the state’s multi-cultural tolerance despite the governing Gabungan Parti Sarawak’s (GPS) coalition with federal parties PAS, Umno, and Perikatan Nasional. Dr Yii, who is his party’s surprise candidate for the Batu Kawah seat, stated people in this area are concerned about …

Malaysia – After many federal MPs claim that they had been denied development financing for their constituencies, they called the Keluarga Malaysia idea as a hypocritical term. Non-Pakatan Harapan members of Parliament alleged they were treated unfairly because they refused to recognize the “memorandum of agreement” inked by the major opposition coalition and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob’s …

Malaysia – Khairy Jamaluddin Abu Bakar’s remarks during the 2008 campaign for the 12th Malaysian General Election was in reference to the merger or collaboration amongst the opposition parties, not to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy issue, the Court of Appeal hears. An attorney for Khairy stated in a statement that the speech makes use of metaphorical humor to convey …

In contrast to Pakatan Harapan, Parti Pejuang Tanah Air (Pejuang) will not enter into any arrangement with the current government. According to The Malaysian Insight, Pejuang chairman Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad thinks his Opposition party should be allowed to check and balance the government and stated that signing any agreement would preclude it from doing so. He said that Pejuang …

The University of the Philippines-Diliman has voiced resistance to the designation of its previous employee, official representative Harry Roque, to the International Law Commission. The UP Diliman Executive Committee, during its 314th gathering held last Monday, made plans to go against the selection of Roque to the United Nations body. For them, Atty. Roque has an exceptionally helpless history of …

Tan Sri Annuar Musa, Minister of Communications and Multimedia, does not eliminate the possibility of having similar agreements with other Opposition parties following the recent Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Pakatan Harapan (PH) coalition. According to reports, he indicated that the administration is interested in pursuing similar agreements with the rest of the Opposition. He said that this is just …

UMNO spokesman Shahril Hamdan reiterated his party’s rejection of DAP and Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, citing the government and the Pakatan Harapan coalition’s bipartisan agreement. On Facebook, he said that the memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed recently was only to guarantee the present administration’s stability rather than a political realignment. According to him, what was stated at the …