News about Parliament

BEAUFORT (Jan 18): Barisan Nasional (BN) retained the Kimanis parliamentary seat after winning the by-election today with a 2,029-vote majority.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 7): Ouster clauses should be made unconstitutional, says former Federal Court justice Datuk Seri Gopal Sri Ram, referring to laws passed by Parliament that seek to prevent a judicial review of decisions made by the executive branch of the government.

KUALA LUMPUR (July 15): Only RM1.

KUALA LUMPUR (March 11): Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said there are certain policies by the China government that are beneficial to Malaysia.

  KUALA LUMPUR (Jan 19): Increasingly gentrified over the past seven years, property developers dubbed the area Bangsar South, using the prestige of the nearby Bangsar address to infuse the area with an air of affluence.

KUALA LUMPUR (Dec 6): The Parliamentary Caucus on Monitoring Lynas yesterday urged the Australia-based group to “stop bullying Malaysia” and to take away the radioactive waste accumulated at its rare earth plant in Gebeng, Pahang, saying it has polluted underground water at the site.

YB Dato Seri Najib Razak, With respect, you are wrong again.

KUALA LUMPUR (Nov 2): It might be wishful thinking to expect the government to be able to rein in fiscal deficit while generating decent economic growth in the upcoming budget, which will be tabled by the Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng at Parliament this afternoon.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 24): The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has summoned former minister of finance Datuk Seri Najib Razak to a meeting today at the parliament to give statements regarding the allegedly missing RM19.

KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 22): Although Malaysia aims to achieve high-income nation status by 2024 — the previous target was 2020 — Putrajaya appears cognisant of the need to address the yawning income gap between the B40 (bottom 40%) households and middle- and high-income households for social stability, since a sizeable 2.