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Austria re-imposes a full Covid lockdown and makes vaccination mandatory Posted by: superadmin - 11-19-2021, 06:41 PM - Forum: Covid-19 Pandemic - No Replies Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced that Covid vaccination would become mandatory in Austria from Feb. 1. On Thursday, Austria recorded 15,145 new cases of Covid-19, setting a new record high for daily positive tests. Austria will enter a fourth national lockdown on Monday as Covid-19 cases continue to surge. The country’s unvaccinated are already barred from leaving their homes for non-essential purposes. Chancellor Alexander Schallenberg announced at a press conference on Friday that those lockdown measures would be extended to the entire country from Monday. The lockdown would last for a maximum of 20 days, Schallenberg said. He also announced that Covid vaccination would become mandatory in Austria from Feb. 1. On Thursday, Austria recorded 15,145 new cases of Covid-19, setting a new record high for daily positive tests. - More -   Umno, PAS duel over why Malacca collab talks broke down Posted by: superadmin - 11-19-2021, 06:27 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies MALACCA POLLS | Further questions about Umno and PAS’ relationship have been raised as leaders engage in a public tiff over why their plan to collaborate in the Malacca state election fell through. Earlier this week, PAS vice president Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar lamented that a certain party chief’s “abang long” (big brother) attitude had derailed talks between Umno, PAS and Bersatu. Umno supreme council member Ahmad Rahman Dahlan, who says he was part of the talks, has now refuted Samsuri’s version of events. In a nine-minute video posted on his Facebook page last night, he said it was PAS and Bersatu who had “walked out” of their Oct 27 meeting with Umno. - More -   We are Malaysians too – Vasanthi Ramachandran Posted by: superadmin - 11-19-2021, 05:54 PM - Forum: Stop Racism and Religious Bigotry - No Replies “THE Malay-dominated governments allowed other races to retain their identification with their countries of origin, their languages and cultures, their schools, their civil organisations…” – Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad I read the above “benevolent” quote by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, when I was about to write this piece on inequality, social, and economic injustice. How timely. Right now, Malaysians have raging emotions over a sinking economy, impoverished electorate dragged into the politicians’ game, collateral political damage, and the most racial budget in the history of Malaysia – Budget 2022. Non-Malays are being crushed to almost nothingness, in an inequitable distribution of 3% for the Chinese and Indian communities and 97% for Bumiputeras for the budget next year. The official estimates are that the Bumiputera allocation is RM11.4 billion, while the non-Bumiputera communities get RM300 million, in a pyramid with the elite apex still being sustained by the marginalised bottom. These precise and mathematically chilling numbers should be attached to the racial disparities that Dr Mahathir created and is still endorsing. Why this vengeance for non-Malays, when Dr Mahathir himself is of Indian origin? Why is there a paranoia to deny his own origin and endorse himself as a “Bumiputera”? His own inner conflict and denial of his ethnic identity as an Indian surfaces always to reinforce racism even more forcibly in a contemporary world where you cannot pin any label on people. It is so peculiar that the prime minister who entrenched racial divides, redefined meritocracy, and enabled race-biased governance was yet able to entice us with change in the last election. There is no doubt that Dr Mahathir is an extraordinarily brilliant man. He could have gone down in history as the saint who saved Malaysia in 2018. Conversely, a ray of hope and support had come from an MP from Pasir Gudang, Hassan Abdul Karim, who expressed his disheartenment with the economic injustices of non-Malays in the racially skewed Budget 2022. - More -   Zuraida fails in bid to strike PKR suit, ordered to fork out RM5,000 allocator fee Posted by: superadmin - 11-19-2021, 05:47 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies KUALA LUMPUR – Ampang MP Datuk Zuraida Kamaruddin has failed to strike a suit filed by her former party PKR after the high court here ruled there are triable issues to be determined. Additionally, Zuraida has been ordered to pay an allocator fee of RM5,000. The decision made at the high court here today was presided over by judicial commissioner Datuk Sri Latifah Haji Mohd Tahar. PKR secretary-general Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail filed the suit against Zuraida on September 28 last year to claim RM10 million for allegedly breaching a bond, which prevents the Ampang MP from leaving the party without paying a hefty compensation. According to lawyer Muhammad Nizamuddin Hamid, who represents Zuraida, she had filed the application to strike the suit on January 29. In rejecting Zuraida’s application, Latifah explained the plaintiff does indeed have cause of action and required the defendant to present evidence as to why she signed the bond in the first place. “In order to deliver fair judgement, the court is of the opinion that it is unwise for the demands to be struck at this stage,” the ruling stated, adding that both parties are required to provide testimonies as to why the bond was implemented. In the statement of claim made by the plaintiff, PKR claimed Zuraida agreed to pay the party a sum of RM10 million within seven days in the event of several possibilities after winning the election on the party’s ticket, which includes resigning from the party; joining other political parties; and becoming an independent elected representative. The party claimed that on or around February 24, Zuraida, in a statement with 10 PKR MPs, announced her resignation from the party without stepping down as Ampang MP, and eventually formed a new bloc known as Perikatan Nasional. PKR wants Zuraida to pay RM10 million in accordance with the terms of the bond, or, alternatively, RM12,049,459.20 under Section 71 of the Contracts Act 1950, with an interest of 5% on the amount to be determined by the court, as well as other costs and relief deemed fit by the court.– The Vibes, November 19, 2021   Indian votes in bag? MIC campaigners get shooed by irate Indian man Posted by: superadmin - 11-19-2021, 02:59 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies MELAKA – A video of an irate Indian man shooing away MIC members in Melaka has been making its rounds on social media after he was approached outside his house. The shirtless man could be seen interrupting the campaigners when they tried to speak to a family from outside of their house.  “Get lost. Get lost. What have you done for the Indian community? You are only here when you need votes. “Last time you said you didn’t win because of votes from Indian voters. So why are you here to beg for our votes? Just leave,” he said as he gestured for the campaigners to leave. This is in stark contrast to Pakatan Harapan’s (PH) high tea programme in Little India here yesterday.   - More -   Kedah locals mount legal challenge against 4D ban Posted by: superadmin - 11-19-2021, 11:45 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies Opposition party DAP is helping Kedah residents file for a judicial review against the state government’s move to stop renewing local council licences for gaming shops. DAP's national legal bureau chairperson Ramkarpal Singh said they are seeking to quash the move on the basis it is “unreasonable” and usurps powers vested in the Federal Constitution. “The decision of the Kedah state government to not renew such gaming licences is ultra vires the constitution as the power to issue such licences is exclusively within the jurisdiction of Parliament. “The plaintiffs will further contend that the said decision of the Menteri Besar (Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor) is unreasonable and liable to be quashed by the High Court upon an application for judicial review,” he said in a statement. - More -   COMMENT | When spoilt brats become a blight on Malaysia Posted by: superadmin - 11-19-2021, 11:35 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies COMMENT | Some political brats are the blight of Malaysia. Many have a sense of entitlement, like the former "special adviser to tourism" Nedim Nazri, or the ambitious Nurulhidayah Zahid who said that the Bersih 4.0 protest was "stupid". Or the "self-made" banker, Nazir Abdul Razak, who fell out with his convict brother Najib and claimed that he supported Pakatan Harapan at GE14, and yet had failed to make this support public. Or Marina Mahathir, whom many Malaysians quietly wonder, "Whose side is she on? Her dad's? Ours? People who stand in the middle of the road will get run over." You've heard the expression, "An apple a day keeps the doctor away". - More -   COMMENT | Whoever wins, nothing will change for Malacca Posted by: superadmin - 11-19-2021, 11:23 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies COMMENT | We should have learned many lessons over the last three years since the 14th general election (GE14) in 2018 and the Sabah snap polls in September last year. A large portion of that time had Malaysians dealing with the threat of Covid-19 and a laggard economy. Worse, we had been subjected to an endless spell of a political pandemic. Our politicians need only to turn around and look at the coffins being carried to the burial grounds and crematoriums and the people’s skimpy dinner tables to understand the hard times the dreadful virus and straggling economy had brought to the lives and livelihood of the rakyat. Tomorrow it will be D-Day for Malacca and not surprisingly but most unfortunately, the politicians appear none the wiser. - More -   Decision day in Malacca: Race, apathy and political gambits Posted by: superadmin - 11-19-2021, 11:07 AM - Forum: Politics - No Replies MALACCA POLLS | Curtains on the 12-day campaign for the Malacca polls are set to come down at midnight and Malaccans will elect their new government tomorrow. As the clock ticks, the three major coalitions contesting for seats in the state legislative assembly - BN, PN and Pakatan Harapan - are making a final push. Perikatan Nasional, for example, took a page out of the opposition's playbook of making symbolic moves aimed at building hype in the face of a formidable BN machinery, announcing its Tanjung Bidara candidate Mas Ermieyati Samsudin as its chief ministerial candidate just two days before polling day. If PN wins, that would make her the first female head of government in a state. - More -   Kedah MB: Within your right to challenge state’s gambling ban decision Posted by: superadmin - 11-18-2021, 09:37 PM - Forum: Politics - No Replies ALOR SETAR, Nov 18 — Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Muhammad Sanusi Md Nor said today any party who wishes to file a judiciary review on the state government’s decision to no longer issue permits for gambling premises in the state is welcomed to do so. He said they had the right to challenge the decision if they felt that it contravened any law under the Federal Constitution. “They can challenge the decision if they feel closing down the premises contravened any law. In my opinion, the move taken is based on the laws of the country. Kelantan and Terengganu did the same thing and did not face any lawsuit at all. - More - Pages (1334): « Previous 1 … 987 988 989 990 991 … 1334 Next » Jump to page: