The various ways in which the rakyat can be burdened with more and higher rates, duties, surcharges, taxes and what-have-you are unlimited to the whims and fancies of the authority…
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Parliament Questions Time, 26 February 2009
Price control to curtail excessive profiteering … Soalan: (PR-1221-L17775) Tuan Wee Choo Keong [ Wangsa Maju ] minta MENTERI PERDAGANGAN DALAM NEGERI DAN HAL EHWAL PENGGUNA menyatakan tindakan-tindakan yang telah…
Continue readingParliament Questions Time, 25 February 2009
The Legal and Prosecuting Department of the ACA has declared one of the investigations into the VK Lingam video case “NFA” (No Further Action) … Soalan: (PR-1221-L17782) Tuan Wee Choo…
Continue readingParliament Questions Time, 24 February 2009
Control of Auditing Firms in Public Listed Companies … Soalan: (PR-1221-L17798) Tuan Wee Choo Keong [ Wangsa Maju ] minta MENTERI KEWANGAN menyatakan apakah tindakan yang telah dan akan diambil…
Continue readingParliament Questions Time, 23 February 2009
Khazanah’s losses amounting to RM18 billion … Soalan: (PR-1221-L17792) Tuan Wee Choo Keong [ Wangsa Maju ] minta MENTERI KEWANGAN menyatakan sebab-sebab Khazanah Nasional Berhad (Khazanah) mencatatkan kerugian kewangan besar…
Continue readingLaunch of Danau Kota Flat Residents Association
Perlancaran Persatuan Penduduk Rumah Pangsa Danau Kota Sunday, 22 February: This morning I was invited to the launch of the Danau Kota Flat Residents Association. DBKL, the Police, Rela, Hokkien…
Continue readingYour MP's Question of the Week #46
The Abdullah Badawi government, for some reasons, has been most caring and generous with Air Asia. The patronage and molly-coddling it receives seems to make the budget airline appears to…
Continue readingParliament Questions Time, 19 February 2009
Grading of Session Court Judges … Soalan: (PR-1221-L17760) Tuan Wee Choo Keong [ Wangsa Maju ] minta PERDANA MENTERI menyatakan mengapakah 30 orang Hakim Mahkamah Seksyen hanya di naik pangkat…
Continue readingMinistry of Health's 'partners in crime' in wasteful advertising
“Rakan kongsi subahat” Kementerian Kesihatan dalam pengiklanan nan serba membazir My office was recently forwarded the following information. Since questions were raised as to which advertising companies were involved and…
Continue readingParliament Questions Time, 17 February 2009
What actions have the Minister of Home Affairs taken or will take against ever increasing crimes in Wangsa Maju as well as in other parts of the country? Soalan: (…
Continue readingConfirmed: Badawi stepping down as PM come end March
Sudah sah: Badawi akan berhenti menjadi Perdana Menteri menjelang March For some time vicious rumours have been circulating claiming that Abdullah Badawi may not step down as Prime Minister come…
Continue readingYour MP's Question of the Week #45
Was this the attitude of the Ministry of Health? … “Who cares about the message and quality, let’s spend the budget!” Soalan Mingguan WR Anda ke-45 Adakah ini sikap Kementerian…
Continue readingPAS MP Roslan Shaharum dies
WR PAS Roslan Shaharum telah meninggal dunia PAS member of Parliament for Bukit Gantang Roslan Shaharum passed away this morning apparently due to a heart attack while cycling.
Continue readingKedah state executive councillor V Arumugam resigns
EXCO Kedah V Arumugam meletak jawatan Kedah state executive councillor V Arumugam has resigned as executive councilor and state assemblyman citing that threats and intimidation have made it unbearable for…
Continue readingYour MP's Question of the Week #44
Another “Midnight Express” project involving RM110 millions by Abdullah Badawi’s administration! During the Ijok by-election in 2006, YB Datuk Seri Najib, the Deputy Prime Minister, launched a housing project of…
Continue readingA sad day for the rakyat in Perak
Thanks to the following four … But, really, the RM10 million question at the back of my mind is: Why did it happen? Why? Satu hari yang pedih untuk rakyat…
Continue readingSime Darby! Oh, Sime Darby! How does our Ringgit go?
Sime Darby! Oh Sime Darby! Kemana perginya ringgit kita! Of late Sime Darby had been in the news (not in the mainstream media obviously) for the wrong reasons! Sime Darby…
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