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Melaka defectors ‘no value’ to PH, says analyst Posted by: superadmin - 10-22-2021, 10:27 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Pakatan Harapan (PH) may lose out if they accept the former Umno and Bersatu assemblymen who triggered a political crisis resulting in the collapse of the Melaka state assembly, as this would give a negative perception to voters, an analyst said. Former academic Azmi Hassan told FMT they may not add any value to PH, adding that the coalition may instead be seen as prioritising party interests instead of the people’s welfare if they choose to work with them. His comments follow PKR veep Tian Chua saying that PH should “tactically” work with anyone who can bring victory to PH in the upcoming Melaka state election, including the defectors. “It is a tactic we must consider by any means to win the most seats,” Chua told reporters. The Melaka political crisis was triggered by former chief minister Idris Haron (Sungai Udang), Nor Azman Hassan (Pantai Kundor), Noor Effandi Ahmad (Telok Mas) and former DAP man Norhizam Hassan Baktee (Pengkalan Batu), all of whom had earlier this month declared that they were pulling their support for the state government and chief minister Sulaiman Md Ali. - More -   YOURSAY | Much ado about ‘super-frog’ Norhizam Posted by: superadmin - 10-22-2021, 10:24 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies A Little Bit Crazy: Incumbent Pengkalan Batu state assemblyperson Norhizam Hassan Baktee had overestimated his political worthiness. Please join Pejuang, Norhizam. They need you. Pakatan Harapan parties do not need you. Harapan can contest in all 28 seats using existing or new candidates while the four former assemblypersons who caused the collapse of the state government - Norhizam, Bersatu's Noor Effandi Ahmad (Telok Mas), Umno's Idris Haron (Sungai Udang), and Azman Hassan (Pantai Kundor) - can retire immediately. Umno and Bersatu have sacked three of four frogs, and if Harapan does not accept them, these four can ‘balik kampung’. By the way, there are no merit points I can see from taking in these four, especially Norhizam. He will jump again if he wins in November. BlueShark1548: Norhizam won his seat on a DAP ticket, and it is only right that another DAP candidate be nominated to defend this seat in the upcoming Malacca state election set on Nov 20. He had denounced the DAP as a Chinese party. The DAP had made it clear it would not accept Norhizam to contest under Harapan. It looks like Harapan is likely to fight the election under each party's logo because PKR is prepared to accept those four traitors. Bravo DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng for rejecting Norhizam as a candidate. The DAP has been consistent as far as party-hoppers are concerned - it denounces them, unlike PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim. The Malacca state election would put Anwar to the test, and it might be his last hurrah. If Anwar accepts the frogs, then Harapan would break up and each would contest under its own logo. Have a talk, if necessary, after the election, which I think PKR is likely to lose. - More -   Wealth amassed through secret bank accounts – Patriot Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 10:17 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PATRIOT registers its grave concern over the finance minister’s recent statement in Parliament with regard to the opening of offshore banking accounts that demands a thorough investigation in response to the allegations that have surfaced with the publishing of the Pandora Papers where several Malaysian VIP figures are implicated. Datuk Seri Tengku Zafrul Tengku Abdul Aziz raises more than eyebrows over his declaration that there is nothing wrong for individuals to hold secret bank accounts outside our shores. The fact that he is also one of the alleged individuals reported to be storing his wealth in offshore accounts raises a serious element of conflict of interest. As an illustrious personality in the banking circuits prior to his appointment as the finance minister by the deposed prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, he would have been the best person to give a more ethically reassuring response to the expose in the Pandora Papers. A man who had the silver-spoon opportunity to start his academic life pursuing his A-Levels overseas and completing his string of qualifications in the United Kingdom and Beijing, Tengku Zafrul could have been more sensitive to public perception over the breaking news on the Pandora Papers, which governments around the world have summoned for immediate investigations. - More -   Pakatan confirms won’t field ex-DAP defector Norhizam in Melaka Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 09:01 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 21 — The Pakatan Harapan (PH) presidential council announced that former Melaka Exco Datuk Norhizam Hassan Baktee will not be fielded as a coalition candidate for the Melaka state election (PRN). The council did not state why it will not offer a spot to Norhizam, who was one of the four assemblymen who rejected former chief minister Datuk Seri Sulaiman Ali to trigger the election, but DAP has openly opposed his candidacy. It also said it has not discussed the candidacy of the remaining three assemblymen. “It should be emphasised that the interests of the people are more important than any individual.  As they are not members of any component party of Pakatan Harapan, the question of their candidacy in the PRN did not arise in today’s meeting. “However, the presidential council also decided that Datuk Norhizam Hassan Baktee will not be a Pakatan Harapan candidate in the Melaka state election,” the council said in a statement. On October 19, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said his party would not accept Norhizam, who won the Pengkalan Batu seat as his party’s candidate in 2018 but jumped to support Perikatan Nasional government and caused the state PH government to collapse last year. Norhizam, along with Bersatu’s Datuk Noor Effandi Ahmad (Telok Mas), Umno’s Datuk Seri Idris Haron (Sungai Udang), and Datuk Noor Azman Hassan (Pantai Kundor), withdrew their support for Sulaiman last month. The quartet was reportedly given a hero’s welcome at a PH event on October 18. Norhizam and Idris was also photographed meeting with PH chairman and PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim in his residence earlier this month. Today, the council also said former chief minister Adly Zakaria from Amanah has been appointed to lead the coalition’s election machinery for the state election. - More -   Pig kidney attached to a human Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 06:13 PM - Forum: Health News - No Replies NEW YORK – For the first time, a pig kidney has been transplanted into a human without triggering immediate rejection by the recipient's immune system, a potentially major advance that could eventually help alleviate a dire shortage of human organs for transplant. The procedure done at NYU Langone Health in New York City involved use of a pig whose genes had been altered so that its tissues no longer contained a molecule known to trigger almost immediate rejection. The recipient was a brain-dead patient with signs of kidney dysfunction whose family consented to the experiment before she was due to be taken off of life support, researchers told Reuters. For three days, the new kidney was attached to her blood vessels and maintained outside her body, giving researchers access to it Test results of the transplanted kidney's function "looked pretty normal," said transplant surgeon Dr Robert Montgomery, who led the study. The kidney made "the amount of urine that you would expect" from a transplanted human kidney, he said, and there was no evidence of the vigorous, early rejection seen when unmodified pig kidneys are transplanted into non-human primates. The recipient's abnormal creatinine level – an indicator of poor kidney function – returned to normal after the transplant, Montgomery said. - More -   The delta variant has a mutation that’s worrying experts: Here’s what we know so far Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 04:26 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies A newly-discovered mutation of the delta variant is under investigation in the U.K. There are worries that it could make the virus yet more transmissible, and could possibly undermine Covid-19 vaccines further. Still, there are many unknowns surrounding this new descendent of the delta variant and it has not been dubbed a “variant of concern” yet. LONDON — A newly-discovered mutation of the delta variant is being investigated in the U.K. amid worries that it could make the virus even more transmissible and undermine Covid-19 vaccines further. Still, there are many unknowns surrounding this descendent or subtype of the delta variant — formally known as AY.4.2 — which some are dubbing the new “delta plus” variant. U.K. government health officials have said it’s too early to tell whether the mutation poses a greater risk to public health than the delta variant, which itself is significantly more infectious than the original Covid-19 strain (and its successor, the alpha variant). But they have stated that they are monitoring the mutation very closely: it now accounts for 6% of U.K. Covid cases that have been genetically sequenced at a time when infections in the country are rising rapidly. Here’s what we know, and don’t know, about the variant: - More -   Evergrande is ‘just the beginning’: More firms must exit China’s property sector Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 03:40 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment - No Replies Evergrande is ‘just the beginning’: Professor says more firms must exit China’s property sector China’s real estate sector has to be “substantially smaller” to keep the overall economy healthy and stable, said Li Gan, economics professor at Texas A&M University. “We have too big of a risk in the sector. We built too much housing, so the stabilization first has to come [from] trimming the sector,” said Gan. Gan estimated that about 20% of China’s housing stock is left vacant, yet developers continue to build millions of new units each year. China’s real estate sector has to be “substantially smaller” to keep the overall economy healthy and stable, said a top expert on the Chinese housing market. “We have too big of a risk in the sector. We built too much housing, so the stabilization first has to come [from] trimming the sector,” Li Gan, an economics professor at Texas A&M University, told CNBC’s “Street Signs Asia” on Wednesday. Gan estimated that about 20% of China’s housing stock is vacant as buyers rack up second and third properties as investments. Even then, developers continue to build millions of new units each year, he said. - More -   Survey shows most Japanese don't want Tokyo to take sides in China-US rivalry Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 03:32 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies A poll on China-Japan relations showed that a majority of the respondents in both countries cited US pressure as an obstacle for China-Japan ties amid the backdrop of China-US competition, while more than half of Japanese respondents said their country should not "pick sides," far exceeding those who preferred to side with the US.  The results of the 2021 China-Japan relations public opinion survey were released in Beijing and Tokyo on Wednesday. The annual survey, started in 2005, has become a key channel for the two countries to understand public opinions on the other side and promote mutual understanding. This year's survey was jointly conducted by China Foreign Languages Publishing Administration and a Japanese think tank, Genron NPO, from late August to late September in the two countries.  Respondents in both China and Japan had high recognition of the importance of bilateral ties, and showed consistence in concerns over regional cooperation and coping with global challenges.  - More -   Amanah, PAS in a race to be more conservative, says analyst Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 02:58 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: PAS and its splinter party Amanah are likely to try and outdo each other by being more conservative to attract rural voters, a socio-political analyst says. Awang Azman Pawi of Universiti Malaya said that although Amanah says it is progressive, the difference between the two may become blurred as the next general election (GE15) approaches, with both fighting for the same issues and in the same tone. “They may slip into the same conservative thinking and try to be seen as championing Islamic issues, even if they are not relevant. Yesterday, Amanah vice-president Mujahid Yusof Rawa said Muslim sensitivities must be looked after in all alcohol-related activities, even when it comes to choosing brand names and symbols. - More -   Perikatan ready to face 3-cornered fights in Melaka polls Posted by: superadmin - 10-21-2021, 02:52 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KUALA LUMPUR – Perikatan Nasional (PN) is ready to face three-cornered fights in next month’s Melaka polls, said chairman Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. In a press conference today, he said this is after Barisan Nasional (BN) remains undecided on cooperating with his coalition in state polls. The Pagoh lawmaker said the entire PN machinery, which comprises Bersatu, PAS and Gerakan, has agreed to continue with the alliance’s agenda that has been agreed on the national level. “We are ready to cooperate, but the question remains – is the other party (BN) ready to cooperate or not? There isn’t a clear and firm answer. “We are short on time; the nomination and polling dates have been announced. “As a coalition in PN, we can’t procrastinate anymore. If there is no clear signal (from BN), we will follow decisions made by PN at the national level.” – The Vibes, October 21, 2021 MORE TO FOLLOW Pages (866): « Previous 1 … 534 535 536 537 538 … 866 Next » Jump to page: