Ibrahim Ali, did you work for Vincent Tan?

Wong Choon Mei

KUALA LUMPUR, March 12: PAS leaders have called on Perkasa chairman Ibrahim Ali to clarify a news report that he had worked for Chinese gambling king Vincent Tan, who has become the latest Malaysian to join the Forbes’ list of billionaires.

Ex-S'wak chief rapped for discriminating against Kelantan

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, Mac 11: PAS leaders have slammed Umno for running out of “credible people” to support their controversial stand that Kelantan was not entitled to oil royalty payments. 

Cracks in BN widening, Gerakan should leave

Wong Choon Mei KUALA LUMPUR, Mac 11: As Umno raises its racial rhetoric and attacks against non-Malay groups, cracks are widening among the component parties it leads in the Barisan Nasional coalition despite efforts by the mainstream media to paper over the growing discontent.

PAS man arrested for trespassing Felda settlement

By Adib Zalkapli

KUALA LUMPUR, March 10 — A PAS central committee member Mazlan Aliman was arrested last night for allegedly trespassing a Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) settlement in Pahang.

March 8, 2010: Pakatan alive and much stronger

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, Mac 8: Two years ago today, little-fancied PKR, DAP and PAS gave the mighty Umno-BN a run for its money, taking five of the country’s 13 states and 51 percent of the popular vote on the peninsula.

Make way for local elections

MARCH 9 — What a wonderful piece of news. That aptly describes my reaction upon learning the request of the Penang state government to the Election Commission to organize two local elections in the Pearl of the Orient this year.

Wan Azizah tells Zul to move on

By Clara Chooi

KUALA LUMPUR, March 9 — PKR president Datin Seri Wan Azizah Wan Ismail has told independent MP Zulkifli Noordin to move on from the episode of his sacking and stop harping on the matter.

Salehuddin and Soh: The corporate side of PKR

Wong Choon Mei

KUALA LUMPUR, 7 Mac: Can a leopard change its spots? Especially when one is from the free-wheeling, cut-throat, kill-or-be-killed world that is corporate Malaysia, where politics and big-time business are dubiously intertwined and who you know is more important than what you know.

Bureaucratic obstacles to local government initiatives

KUALA LUMPUR, March 8 —The MBPJ’s list of success stories since March 2008 is long.

Frogs, Zul Noordin and the PKR dilemma

Wong Choon Mei

Later this week, the PKR disciplinary committee will announce its decision on recalcitrant Kulim Bandar Bharu MP Zulkifli Noordin.

Crisis at MCA flares again - Chua forces new polls

Wong Choon Mei

KUALA LUMPUR, Mac 4: Even as the Umno-BN continues to try destabilizing the Pakatan Rakyat, a fresh crisis has erupted in its own backyard.

MACC must probe Najib, Rosmah over RM50m defections

Wong Choon Mei  

KUALA LUMPUR, Mac 2: PKR leaders have called on the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission to investigate red-hot speculation that Prime Minister Najib Razak had given his cousin a juicy Independent Power Plant contract so that they could finance the defections of at least ten Pakatan Rakyat federal lawmakers into the Umno-BN.

Mahfuz: Gag order on oil royalty shows Umno scared

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, Mac 2: PAS has ridiculed a gag order slapped on Umno members over the Kelantan oil royalty issue, pointing out that if Umno was confident it was doing the right thing, it should not fear discussion or debate over the controversial matter.

Najib a Malay hero for making Umno a 'tong sampah' ?

Wong Choon Mei

KUALA LUMPUR, Mac 3: If Prime Minister Najib Razak believes that by engineering the latest round of political defections, he can emerge as a hero to his Umno party and salvage political ground with the Malays, then he is in for a surprise.

I pay, you pay, let us all pay together!

Selena Tay

With the implementation of the GST in mid-June 2011, everyone will be paying taxes. The tagline of Lembaga Hasil Dalam Negeri (LHDN) should be ‘Now Everyone Can Pay’ and an advertisement should be put forth showing a Malay, Chinese and Indian with smiling faces to promote a tax-paying 1Malaysia.  

Wahid urges KT folk to help rebuild 200-year old temple

Harakahdaily

KUALA TERENGGANU, Feb 23: PAS parliamentarian for Kuala Terengganu Abdul Wahid Endut has called on the community there to help rebuild a 200-year old Chinese temple ravaged by fire earlier this week.

PAS: Time for Umno to accept a two-party system

Harakahdaily

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20: PAS leaders were unsurprised by Prime Minister Najib Razak’s call to his Umno party not to ridicule arch-enemy Pakatan Rakyat, saying it was time the ruling coalition accepted the wishes of the people for a two-party system or face the consequences at the next general election.

Teoh's inquest resumes amid returning fears of a cover-up

Harakahdaily  

SHAH ALAM, Feb 19: Concerns are mounting of yet another huge cover-up by the federal government as the inquest into the suspicious death of Selangor political aide Teoh Beng Hock resumed on Friday, with the findings of Thai forensic expert Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand hotly disputed.

PAS slams Umno for opaque, secrecy-shrouded caning

Wong Choon Mei  

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 19: PAS leaders defended the use of Syariah law and punishment but condemned the ruling Umno party for abusing its practice in the recent caning of three women found guilty of engaging in illicit sex.

Zulkifli hearing pushed to March 1

By Syed Jaymal Zahiid
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 — The PKR disciplinary board has decided to postpone Kulim-Bandar Baru MP Zulkifli Noordin’s hearing to March 1, citing “fairness” as the reason.