May 17th
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 18 — The Indian community’s confidence in the MIC is now seen to be rising and this is a positive development for the Barisan Nasional (BN) component party, said MIC president Datuk G. Palanivel. He said the community was aware that the MIC truly looked after its welfare compared to the opposition which was only good at making …
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May 10th
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 10 — FELDA settlers should be grateful and dismiss allegations by opposition leaders that the Barisan Nasional (BN) government neglected them from the mainstream of national development and modernisation. Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi (picture) said the windfall of RM15,000 for each FELDA family proved the …
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Apr 9th
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KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 — When Education Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin announced last week that the government would bow to demands to transfer out of Chinese national-type primary schools teachers who were not Mandarin-proficient, it was an acknowledgement of the community’s deep-seated discontent with the Barisan Nasional (BN) government. And …
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Mar 30th
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 30 — The federal government must learn from the mistakes of the Asian Rare Earth (ARE) plant in Bukit Merah, Ipoh, those leading protests against Lynas Corp’s rare earth refinery in Kuantan said today after an ARE worker’s son died last night.
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Mar 25th
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 — PAS has revealed the names of five Terengganu Umno leaders it claims received land from the Barisan Nasional (BN) state government including former Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh. The Islamist party’s state chief Abdul Wahid Endut had last week said it had a list of leaders from its rival who were “gifted” land by the …
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Mar 25th
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 — PAS has revealed the names of five Terengganu Umno leaders it claims received land from the Barisan Nasional (BN) state government including former Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh. The Islamist party’s state chief Abdul Wahid Endut had last week said it had a list of leaders from its rival who were “gifted” land by the …
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Mar 25th
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 26 — PAS has revealed the names of five Terengganu Umno leaders it claims received land from the Barisan Nasional (BN) state government including former Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh. The Islamist party’s state chief Abdul Wahid Endut had last week said it had a list of leaders from its rival who were “gifted” land by the ..
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Mar 25th
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HULU LANGAT, March 25 — Barisan Nasional (BN) is ready to win the next general election as well as win back Selangor, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today as mainstream newspapers hinted snap polls are in the air.
Mar 24th
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 24 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak indicated today that he will soon call general elections, adding that confidence in his Barisan Nasional (BN) has surged of late. Umno-controlled Berita Harian reported the prime minister as saying in Port Dickson that “rasa-rasa bunyi (PRU) dah dekat (feel the sounds (of elections) are near).” The …
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Mar 4th
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KUALA LUMPUR, March 4 — DAP leader Lim Kit Siang challenged Datuk Seri Najib Razak today to list his Barisan Nasional (BN) government’s mistakes to prove that his apology was not a “blank cheque” for the transgressions of previous administrations. “Is Najib apologising for [Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s] 22-year premiership [that] was dogged by a …
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