Agong says parliament can convene during emergency
KUALA LUMPUR: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Al-Sultan Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al-Mustafa Billah Shah has expressed the view that parliament may convene during the emergency period on a date deemed appropriate by His Majesty, based on the advice of the prime minister. Comptroller of the Royal Household of Istana Negara Datuk Ahmad Fadil Shamsuddin said the matter was […]
Bills to televise court proceedings tabled for first reading
KUALA LUMPUR: Three Bills were tabled for first reading today to amend court-related Acts that would allow court proceedings to be televised live or through video streaming or any other electronic communication medium. These include proceedings in the Federal Court, the Court of Appeal and the High Court by amending Section 3 of the Courts […]
A parliament of baboons
A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting ‘of more or less idle people. – Walter Bagehot, British journalist We have probably heard of a herd of cows, a caravan of camels, a pack of wolves, but there are many collective nouns for animals that are much less well-known, and strange even. Some of […]
RM5.2b distributed under wage subsidy scheme
KUALA LUMPUR: The Social Security Organisation (Socso) has distributed RM5.2 billion under the Prihatin Wage Subsidy Programme as of June 30, 2020, said Human Resources Minister Datuk M Saravanan. He said the services sector recorded the highest number of applications for the programme at 92,000, adding that as of June 30, 319,000 eligible employers had […]
Parliament sitting: What to expect
The simple fact is that a snap election won’t stop the political impasse because Umno and PAS can’t win 112 seats out of 165 seats in West Malaysia. — Wong Chin Huat, political scientist As Parliament convenes on July 13, we can expect a flurry of movements on both sides of the divide. This sitting […]
Dewan Rakyat Speaker to come from Sarawak?
KUALA LUMPUR: The candidate to be appointed as the new Dewan Rakyat Speaker has been identified, Gabungan Parti Sarawak (GPS) parliamentary chief whip Datuk Seri Fadillah Yusof disclosed. Without giving a name, Fadillah said that the candidate is not a Member of Parliament, and when asked whether the candidate is a Sarawakian, he just smiled. […]
Three Sarawakians sworn in as Senators today
KUALA LUMPUR: Sepanggar Umno chief Datuk Yakubah Khan is among the five individuals sworn in as senators before Senate president Tan Sri S.A. Vigneswaran at Dewan Negara here today. The other four were Sarawak’s Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) Wanita honorary secretary Susan Chemerai Anding; Parti Rakyat Sarawak deputy secretary-general Rita Sarimah Patrick Insol; chairman […]
Online sitting better, says MP
KUCHING: It has been suggested that the coming sitting of Parliament should be done online in order to adhere to the movement control order (MCO) and avoid the cost and problems of resolving the attendant difficulties. When making this suggestion, Bandar Kuching MP Dr Kelvin Yii pointed out that this had been done in other […]
Sailing into the sunset
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. – Napoleon Bonaparte, French statesman and military leader We have about a week more to the end of the third phase of the movement control order (MCO). We can’t be […]
Japanese PM informs parliament of imminent state of emergency
JAPAN: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe informed both chambers of parliament of his intention to declare a state of emergency in Tokyo and six other prefectures as the number of cases nears 4,000, reported Sputnik news agency. “To prevent the further spread of the novel coronavirus infection, I consider it necessary to introduce a one-month […]
