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| PH will be BN’s main rival in Johor, says Umno veep |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-29-2022, 09:42 AM - Forum: Politics
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JOHOR BAHRU: Pakatan Harapan, rather than Bersatu, will be Barisan National’s main challenger in the coming Johor state elections, says Umno vice-president Khaled Nordin.
Khaled said Bersatu did not have the structure and mechanism of a grassroots party despite its president Muhyiddin Yassin having previously been in Umno.
“Perhaps this is why Muhyiddin is not contesting this round,” he told FMT.
“For Umno, the strongest challenge will be from PH. However, I believe Bersatu leaders who are in the government will use all their resources to compete against us in the state elections,” he said.
Khaled said Umno and BN were confident of their chances because of PH’s failure to govern the state well for 22 months, pointing out that it had changed its menteri besar twice in that period.
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| Legend Teh Kew San ‘I can’t stop playing badminton’ turns 87 |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-29-2022, 09:37 AM - Forum: Badminton
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PETALING JAYA: Sometimes there’s a man, and he’s just the man for his time and place. That’s badminton great Teh Kew San, a sporting treasure never dented by the years.
He enjoyed a rich badminton life and memories which last an eternity, all of which may be beyond belief to anyone in the modern game.
Stories of Kew San as an influential, fascinating, compassionate and compelling character in badminton continue to inspire.
They also number more than the 87 candles Kew San had on his birthday cake on Jan 26.
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| M’sian sports school late in enticing shuttler Kean Yew before he left for Singapore |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-29-2022, 12:10 AM - Forum: Badminton
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GEORGE TOWN – The sports schools in Malaysia were one step behind in trying to entice Penang-born Singaporean Loh Kean Yew to join them but failed because his elder sibling Kean Heng had already started training in the island nation.
The talented Kean Yew went on to win the World Championship last year after he was recruited by a Singaporean sports school when he was younger.
He was just 12 years old when the offer from Singapore came, said Penang Badminton Association president Datuk Kah Kau Kiak.
He said Kean Yew was training at the badminton academy in Jalan La Salle here when the scouts from elsewhere began to follow his progress.
“So, the offer came and Kean Yew, as well as his family, were agreeable because he had a brother already training in Singapore. They had an aunt over there helping them.
“I feel bad as Penang is a top state in producing badminton talents. We need not look far. (Datuk Lee) Chong Wei is from Penang.
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| Pact against ‘arrogant’ BN possible – minus DAP, says PAS man |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-29-2022, 12:05 AM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: An alliance against the “arrogance” of Umno and Barisan Nasional could come about in the Johor state elections, says a member of the PAS central leadership.
Mahfodz Mohamed, who sits on the central committee, said cooperation between PAS and opposition parties could come about – provided the opposition party is “not extreme” and, if the party is a member of Pakatan Harapan, is ready to leave the DAP behind.
He said Umno had been increasingly keen to sideline PAS, its ally in the Muafakat Nasional pact, the moment Umno leaders returned to power in Putrajaya.
However, Umno should have realised that their comeback after their massive defeat in the 2018 general election had been with the help of PAS, when the former ruling party won many subsequent by-elections.
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| Used cars turn to gold with Sri Lanka almost bankrupt |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-28-2022, 06:08 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment
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COLOMBO: Supermarket shelves are bare and restaurants can’t serve meals, but Sri Lanka’s economic crisis is a bonanza for used car dealers, with vehicle shortages pushing prices higher than a house in a nice area.
The island nation of 22 million is on the brink of bankruptcy, inflation is red hot and the government has barred a range of “non-essential” imports to save dollars needed to buy food, medicine and fuel.
In the car market, this two-year ban has kept factory-fresh automobiles off local roads, forcing desperate buyers to pay some of the world’s highest prices for beaten-up compacts and no-frills family sedans.
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| MACC part of the problem, not solution, to worsening graft, say PH leaders |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-28-2022, 05:57 PM - Forum: Politics
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PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) is not the solution to combating worsening corruption in the country, but part of the problem, two opposition leaders say.
This comes after Malaysia fell once again in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) rankings, sitting at 62nd in the world, having been ranked 57th in 2020 and 51st in 2019.
After the rankings were released on Tuesday, the MACC said it would continue to pay serious attention to combat corruption and devise recommendations to reverse the decline.
In a statement today, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng and Amanah president Mohamad Sabu said the MACC “is the problem”, pointing to instances of political influence in the agency.
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| On logo issue, PKR opts to shoot itself in the foot |
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Posted by: superadmin - 01-28-2022, 09:44 AM - Forum: Politics
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From Terence Netto
PKR are opting to contest under their own logo going into the Johor polls.
Their coalition partners, DAP and Amanah, are sticking by the Pakatan Harapan logo.
This is wise and contrasts with the PKR decision which is myopic.
The PKR choice prioritises sentiment above long-term strategy and flies in the face of the call for opposition unity by their supremo Anwar Ibrahim.
PKR announced which logo they will use days after Anwar himself had called on all opposition parties to unite under the “Big Tent” concept to face the Johor polls.
The call for unity was sensible, given the crowded field of opposition parties and the necessity to keep a confident Umno-BN from a decisive victory.
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