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Perikatan to contest 14 Parliament, 42 state seats in Pahang for GE15: Saifuddin Posted by: superadmin - 11-28-2021, 11:40 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KUANTAN – Perikatan Nasional (PN) intends to contest in all 14 Parliament seats and 42 state seats in Pahang in the coming 15th general election (GE15), said Pahang PN chairman Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah.  As preparation, he said, the discussion on seat allocations between parties in PN, namely Bersatu, PAS, and Gerakan, is at the initial stage, with each party sending two representatives. “The three parties agree that there should be an initial discussion, and the small group will discuss candidly to work out the seat allocation formula for GE15. "For the time being, the seats to be contested by the parties involved have to be referred to the respective party committees before being finalised,” he said. Saifuddin, who is also Pahang Bersatu chief, said this in a media conference after attending the Indera Mahkota Bersatu division annual conference at Kompleks Dagangan Mahkota here today. As preparation for GE15, Saifuddin who is also foreign minister, said Pahang Bersatu’s priority at the moment is to heed the call of party president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin to set up many branches and increase membership to prepare the party’s machinery. – Bernama, November 28, 2021   What is known so far about new Covid-19 variant Omicron Posted by: superadmin - 11-28-2021, 11:38 AM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies SOUTH African scientists have discovered a new Covid-19 variant, Omicron, with multiple mutations that is thought to be highly contagious. The World Health Organization has designated it a variant of concern and many countries are racing to try and contain it, banning flights from southern Africa. Scientists are working round-the-clock to dissect the variant and try understand its behaviour. Here is a brief explainer of what is known so far about Omicron – days after it emerged – as shared by South African scientists. Origins It is currently unclear where the variant originated from, but South African scientists were the first to announce the discovery on November 25. By that time cases had been detected in Hong Kong and Botswana. A day later, Israel and Belgium also uncovered the variant. Mutation Scientists discovered the new variant with a "very unusual constellation of mutations" on November 23. Some of the mutations are already known, and affect transmissibility and immune evasion, but many others are new. It has the "most mutations we have seen to date", said Professor Mosa Moshabela, deputy vice chancellor of research and innovation at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He said "some of these mutations we have seen before like in Delta and Beta," but others they have not, and "we don't know what the combination of those mutations will translate into." Leading virologist Tulio de Oliveira said there were around 50 mutations overall, including 30 on the spike protein, the focus of most vaccines as it is what enables the virus to enter cells. Transmissibility The pace at which the new daily Covid cases are increasing in South Africa has left scientists suspecting it may be driven by the transmissibility of the new variant. Although not all are Omicron cases, the daily Covid positivity rate rose this week from 3.6% on Wednesday, 6.5% on Thursday, 9.1% on Friday and 9.2% on Saturday, according to official data. "Some of the mutations that are expressed have previously been shown to enable the virus to spread easily and quickly, and because of that we suspect that the (new variant) is going to spread quickly," said Moshabela. Immunity, severity Some of the genetic mutations shown by the virus include those known to enable the virus to evade immunity. It is unclear though what the impact will be on vaccines. As for the severity of the variant, scientists say it has only come to light this week, giving little time for thorough analysis. – AFP, November 28, 2021   Mat Sabu admits PH lost Malay support in Melaka Posted by: superadmin - 11-28-2021, 11:29 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Amanah president Mohamad Sabu has admitted that Pakatan Harapan’s loss of the Malay community’s support was among the main reasons the coalition failed to win the Melaka state elections last week. Mohamad said the coalition’s heavy defeat served as a lesson for it to evaluate the true climate of Malaysian politics. “We saw that PH has lost the support of the Malays. It’s good that the Melaka polls were held, allowing us to measure the real situation. Therefore, PH will be meeting this coming Monday to discuss this matter,” he said after a party event in Kelantan. “The main thing we need to do is to have more allies than opponents and get rid of the negative perceptions that have been planted against PH. These perceptions aren’t even accurate,” he told Utusan Malaysia. He claimed that Kelantan, governed by PAS, had enjoyed greater benefits with a PH government in Putrajaya, citing a one-off RM400 million allocation to Kelantan in 2020, prior to the collapse of the PH federal government. - More -   Anwar – a character torn between ‘Saudara’ and ‘Dato Seri’ Posted by: superadmin - 11-28-2021, 09:12 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies In the mid-1970s when Anwar Ibrahim was teaching at Yayasan Anda, a private college to assist school dropouts at Lembah Pantai, he went to work riding a 70cc Honda Cub. Among his friends, he was known as ‘Saudara’ Anwar, a respectful and endearing term, derived and used by many Universiti Malaya undergraduates then and the Malay literati group. ‘Saudara’ carries a proletarian tone and denotes equality among the Malay youths and adults of that generation. It was so influential that even DAP emulated it and used the term for their leaders and party cadres. Thus, we had Saudara V David, Saudara P Patto and Saudara Ahmad Nor in the same vein as Saudara Ahmad Boestaman and Saudara Kassim Ahmad. Today, we still have Saudara Lim Kit Siang, Saudara Loke Siew Fook and Saudara Gobind Singh Deo and yet Saudara Anwar has evolved to become a ‘Dato Seri’. It is still not too late for Anwar to rebrand himself and be referred to as Saudara Anwar again or Pak Anwar, as he is fondly called in Indonesia. - More -   YOURSAY | A digital mall driven by spite will find it hard to thrive Posted by: superadmin - 11-28-2021, 09:03 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies OCT: No success can be achieved when the idea was borne out of a racial incident. There was no planning, no strategy, and no understanding of the business. It is a recipe for failure. Mara digital malls were initiated not based on a legitimate business model but from spite to rival Low Yat Plaza. Low Yat dealers had established vendor relationships with foreign manufacturers. Mara digital malls have no such supply chains. So, how to succeed? Businesses don't succeed without effort, hard work, and business acumen. Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has no past considerations to shout about. His standard operating procedures (SOPs) and movement control orders (MCOs) were failures. However, he was lucky to be at the right place and the right time to become prime minister. It looks like race and religion are still important factors for BN despite their business failures. - More -   China's industrial profits growth accelerates in October Posted by: superadmin - 11-27-2021, 08:46 PM - Forum: Business, Economy and Investment - No Replies China's industrial profits growth accelerates in October, growing 25% from a year earlier China's industrial profit growth accelerated in October, growing 25 percent from a year earlier, boosted by the country's policy to secure energy supply and stabilize prices. Nonetheless, the progress is still facing uncertainty due to COVID-19. China's industrial profits in October grew by 25 percent year on year to 818.7 billion yuan ($128 billion), an acceleration of 8.3 percentage points from the previous month, and rebounded for two consecutive months, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Saturday. China's industrial profits from January to October grew by 42.2 percent year on year to 7.17 trillion yuan, up 43.2 percent from the first 10 months of 2019, an average increase of 19.7 percent over two years, NBS data shows. - More -   Chinese, Russian ambassadors to US voice against upcoming summit for democracy Posted by: superadmin - 11-27-2021, 08:41 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies Chinese Ambassador to the US Qin Gang and Russian Ambassador to the US Anatoly Antonov jointly published an article on Friday entitled "Respecting People's Democratic Rights" on the National Interest magazine to voice against the Biden administration's so called Summit for Democracy on December 9 and 10, which according to the article will "stoke up ideological confrontation."  The virtual Summit for Democracy that will be hosted by US President Joe Biden is "An evident product of its Cold-War mentality, this will stoke up ideological confrontation and a rift in the world, creating new 'dividing lines.' This trend contradicts the development of the modern world. It is impossible to prevent the shaping of a global polycentric architecture but could strain the objective process. China and Russia firmly reject this move," according to the article. - More -   If you don’t know data on Melaka loss, shut up: PKR’s Abdullah Sani Posted by: superadmin - 11-27-2021, 07:36 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PERMATANG PAUH – PKR remains steadfast in its stand to nominate Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as its prime ministerial candidate in the next general election, said party central leadership council member Datuk Abdullah Sani Abdul Hamid. The Kapar MP said it is not fair to place all the blame for Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) defeat in the recent Melaka election on Anwar’s shoulders alone because there were many contributing factors that led to the loss. “For me, those who talk about PKR’s defeat do not know the data. Many give their views at the national level, but they do not do research at all. “If you don’t know the data, then shut up,” he said. - More -   Maszlee joins PKR to ‘enact change, instil hope’ Posted by: superadmin - 11-27-2021, 07:30 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Simpang Renggam MP Maszlee Malik has officially joined PKR after just over a year as an independant. He formally announced his move at an event to hand over his membership form to PKR president Anwar Ibrahim at the Deewan Kampung Baru Machap in his constituency today, In his speech, he also described his move as a sort of homecoming as he was a registered member of the PKR Ampang branch in 2017. “Today I bring a message to youths and others my age, that there is still hope. We still have hope to rise up and bring change. So it is on this ground that I, just like all of you, ordinary people who desire change, made this major decision to join PKR,” he said. Maszlee had been a member of Bersatu under Pakatan Harapan (PH), briefly aligning with Muda in August last year before becoming an independant representative last November. He acknowledged today that his move may come at a time which was “not very encouraging” and a bad choice in view of PKR’s recent defeats in the Melaka state election. He said there were those who asked why he was joining a party that had lost and whose president was being attacked by his foes and some friends. - More -   Najib’s EPF proposal ‘robbery in disguise’, says DAP man Posted by: superadmin - 11-27-2021, 06:51 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies PETALING JAYA: Najib Razak’s proposal to restructure the Employees Provident Fund (EPF) dividend payouts on a sliding scale has been described as “robbery in disguise”. DAP deputy youth chief Chiong Yoke Kong was responding to the former prime minister’s proposal that EPF members with lower savings receive higher dividends. He said Najib’s proposal in a Facebook post yesterday reflected that he did not understand the fundamentals of the EPF system. Najib had proposed that members who contributed less should receive a higher dividend compared to those who contributed more. In a statement, Chiong responded: “Allowing members with lower deposits to obtain higher interest rates is actually a robbery in disguise against law-abiding and honest members who have made long-term deposits.” It was also a complete betrayal of the principles of fairness and justice, he added. - More - Pages (1342): « Previous 1 … 986 987 988 989 990 … 1342 Next » Jump to page: