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Azmin as Ismail Sabri’s deputy? Mere rumours meant to thwart Umno veep’s PM candidacy Posted by: superadmin - 08-18-2021, 01:52 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KUALA LUMPUR – Speculations that Datuk Seri Mohamed Azmin Ali will deputise Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob in a new-look cabinet are being created to scuttle the Umno vice-president’s chances of becoming the prime minister. Responding to a viral poster congratulating Ismail and Azmin for their appointments as the country’s number one and two respectively, a source in the former’s camp said no such agreement has been reached. Another Umno insider told The Vibes it would be shocking if Azmin, who is Bersatu supreme council member, is indeed chosen as the deputy prime minister. This, according to him, is considering the former international trade and industry minister is seen as a polarising figure who has lost a lot of political support. “This is especially following his active role in the Sheraton Move last year and considering his sub-par performance as a minister. “Azmin is not a candidate that Umno will support.” - More -   Special Rulers’ meeting on Friday to discuss new govt Posted by: superadmin - 08-18-2021, 01:47 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KUALA LUMPUR: The Yang di-Pertuan Agong, Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah, will convene a special meeting with the Malay Rulers on Friday to discuss the formation of a new government and the appointment of a new prime minister. Comptroller of the Royal Household Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin confirmed the matter with Berita Harian. He said Istana Negara would come out with a statement today. Yesterday, party chiefs from PKR, DAP, Amanah, Umno, PAS and Pejuang had a two-hour audience with the King and his deputy, the Sultan of Perak. The audience came after Muhyiddin Yassin resigned as the prime minister on Monday. - More -   New PM must prove support in Dewan Rakyat, says King Posted by: superadmin - 08-18-2021, 01:45 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: The country’s next prime minister must prove his majority in Parliament, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong has decreed. In a statement, Istana Negara said the King relayed this to political party leaders during an audience yesterday. “His Majesty decreed that the prime minister he appoints according to the Constitution has to table a motion of confidence in the Dewan Rakyat.” The King also said all parties must work together without a winner-take-all situation. Source: FMT   Brace for another leader with slim majority, says ex-minister Posted by: superadmin - 08-18-2021, 01:42 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: As MPs prepare to finalise the statutory declarations (SDs) on their choice for a new prime minister, a former minister says another premier with a slim majority may be possible. Salleh Said Keruak said this is due to voting for the new prime minister “through political parties en bloc”. “It seems we are going through another process of voting for a new PM based on party choices,” he said in a Facebook post this morning. “Again, this means it becomes a battle of numbers with probably another slim majority.” - More -   Ismail Sabri as PM is ‘old wine in new bottle’, says analyst Posted by: superadmin - 08-18-2021, 01:35 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: The potential appointment of Umno vice-president Ismail Sabri Yaakob as prime minister is akin to having “old wine in a new bottle”, says an analyst. The former deputy prime minister, who was the Perikatan Nasional-led government’s main non-health spokesman on Covid-19 matters, has now won the backing of Barisan Nasional, Bersatu, PAS and GPS as their prime ministerial candidate, after Muhyiddin Yassin’s resignation on Monday. “This is like old wine in a new bottle, or as the Chinese like to say, ‘You change the soup but you don’t change the ingredients. You just cook a different type of soup or with a different flavour’,” Singapore Institute of International Affairs senior fellow Oh Ei Sun told FMT. Oh predicted that instead of a wholesale change in government, the country could expect to see a “Cabinet reshuffle” with nearly the same faces in the new administration, albeit holding different ministerial positions. - More -   Afghan women to have rights within Islamic law, Taliban say Posted by: superadmin - 08-18-2021, 10:01 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies The rights of women in Afghanistan will be respected "within the framework of Islamic law", the Taliban say. In the group's first news conference since taking control of the country on Sunday, a spokesman said women would be free to work but gave little detail about other rules and restrictions. Zabihullah Mujahid repeated that all Afghans must live "within the framework of Islam". Rights groups fear women's freedoms could be eroded under the Taliban. The militant group introduced or supported punishments in line with their strict interpretation of Islam's legal system, Sharia law, when they controlled Afghanistan between 1996 and 2001. Women had to wear the all-covering burka, and the Taliban also disapproved of girls aged 10 and over going to school. In the news briefing on Tuesday, Mr Mujahid fielded several questions from the international media about what women's rights could look like under a Taliban government. "We are going to allow women to work and study within our frameworks," he said. "Women are going to be very active within our society." But he did not expand when asked about dress codes and what roles women would be able to have within the country's workforce. - More -   Houses at half-price, anyone? Posted by: superadmin - 08-18-2021, 09:55 AM - Forum: Business. Economy and Investment - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Everyone loves a sale, particularly if the property is going at half price. But not earlier buyers, or investors who had bought to flip. These two groups would be unhappy. Maybe even furious. Headlines about property have been like this, of late: Is it time to buy? Is it ‘still’ a safe investment? Is there light at the end of the tunnel? There is a missing question: “Will prices fall further?” Much depends on the location, type of property and developers’ track record, said Johor-based KGV International Property Consultants. It also depends if one is buying into an overhang project – completed units which remain unsold after they have been certified fit for occupation. - More -   Rethinking Malaysia Posted by: superadmin - 08-18-2021, 09:49 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies After the bad behaviour of West Malaysian politicians, East Malaysians should do a lot of soul-searching to see whether they get any real benefit from their states’ partnership in the Malaysian federation. Are East Malaysians just pawns in a game of federal power play or feeble discards that are only called upon to make up the numbers to secure a seat for the next prime minister? East Malaysians have been fooled by the promises of successive federal governments to honour the Malaysia Agreement 1963 and to treat Sabah and Sarawak as partners equal to Peninsular Malaysia. All Sabah and Sarawak got from Muhyiddin Yassin was the name “wilayah”, whatever that means. - More -   Malaysia on the clock as it misses out on another undersea cable Posted by: superadmin - 08-18-2021, 09:44 AM - Forum: Business. Economy and Investment - No Replies PETALING JAYA: With Malaysia missing out on yet another undersea cable, stakeholders are saying time is running out to reinstate the cabotage exemption lest the country miss out on more digital infrastructure projects. In the latest chapter in the cabotage saga, it was announced that Apricot, Facebook and Google’s new subsea cable, aimed at boosting regional connectivity, would bypass Malaysia entirely. Facebook said in a statement that the cable system, expected to launch in 2024, would provide an initial design capacity of more than 190 tbps to meet rising data demand in the region and support the upcoming Echo and Bifrost cables, which also will not connect to Malaysia. Speaking to FMT, Malaysia Internet Exchange chairman Chiew Kok Hin said a pair of factors had caused Malaysia to fall victim in this case. - More -   PM selection process must be transparent, fair and above board – P. Gunasegaram Posted by: superadmin - 08-18-2021, 09:08 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies THE selection of the prime ministerial candidate is an important process and needs to be transparent, fair and above board to clearly show which MP voted for which candidate. This is because the king will rely almost entirely on the breakdown of support from aggregating this information to pick who will be prime minister. There are several problems with the method proposed in the letter by the Dewan Rakyat Speaker Datuk Azhar Azizan Harun to MPs asking them to choose the one MP they support for the post of prime minister. One, it gives hardly any time for the MPs to form alignments that will need to be discussed within the party and between parties to choose a candidate. This is especially important now as no coalition has a majority. Support for caretaker prime minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is said to be 100 MPs, while Harapan plus allies are said to have 105. It’s not clear whether Muhyiddin will even offer himself as a candidate again. He should not because as prime minister, he had already lost his majority. Thus, time is needed for his party to sort things out. Similarly, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has solid Pakatan Harapan support, but he still needs other parties to give him a majority. More time is needed to form the alliances that this will make possible. After waiting so long to get Muhyiddin’s resignation, the decision for a new prime ministerial candidate is rather hasty, given the complexities right now. It is appropriate that more time is given, perhaps a week. - More - Pages (1144): « Previous 1 … 893 894 895 896 897 … 1144 Next » Jump to page: