Dear All,

Today, after more than a month of hospitalisation, I’m making a good progress and my health is improving. However, a panel of doctors wants me to stay a little more longer for observation (may be more than 10 days).

Thank you to everyone for all the concern and prayers.

Best Regards,
Yunus Ali
Chairperson, NIEI Malaysia

Kepada Sahabat dan Kawan-kawan,

Setelah [...]

KOTA KINABALU, Aug 7 (Bernama) — MCA Youth Saturday proposed that undergraduates at public institutions of higher learning be allowed to join political parties.

Its chief, Datuk Dr Wee Ka Siong, said the movement had made such a proposal way back in 2000 and felt that legislation should be relaxed to enable the students to participate [...]

By Adib Zalkapli (The Malaysian Insider)

SIBU, May 16 — The DAP pulled off a surprise win in the Sibu by-election today, defeating Barisan Nasional’s (BN) SUPP by 398 votes in a hard fought race, official results show.

BN had earlier been expected to retain its Sarawak stronghold but lost despite the best efforts [...]

SIBU, May 16 — Following is the voter turnout statistics when polling for the Sibu parliamentary by-election closed at 5pm today.

Total No. of Registered Voters:  54,695 (including 2,537 postal voters)

Number of voters who cast ballots:  32,742

Voter turnout: 59.86 per cent

— Bernama

SIBU, May 16 — Polling in the Sibu by-election ended at 5pm  today.

Out of the 45 polling centres opened to facilitate the polling process, 10 closed at 1pm, five at 2pm, six at 3pm, two at 4pm and the remaining 22 at 5pm.

The vote counting process is currently underway and the tallying will [...]

(The Malaysian Insider)

By Adib Zalkapli
May 16, 2010

SIBU, May 16 — A total of 23,103 or 42.24 per cent have voted up to 1pm at polling stations across Sibu after an intensive eight-day campaign for the precursor to Sarawak’s next state elections.

The Election Commission (EC) is expecting an 80 per cent turnout from [...]

Lau (right) greets a constituent in Sibu. — robertchlau.com pic

(The Malaysian Insider)

KUALA LUMPUR, April 9 — Sibu MP Datuk Robert Lau Hoi Chew, 67, died earlier today, paving the way for yet another by-election, one which could be a bellwether for state polls expected to be called soon.

The Sibu by-election will be [...]

G Thomas
Mar 26, 10
7:27pm

The mayor of Kuala Lumpur has been reported as saying that paying assessment does not entitle the public to demand that Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) tackle the city’s garbage and litter issues. He suggests that the people do their part.

Maintaining the cleanliness of public spaces [...]

Mike
Mar 26, 10
7:26pm

I refer to the Malaysiakini report Follow laws on local elections, Penang told.

I cannot understand why Pakatan Rakyat is making all this fuss now about the local council election laws.

Obviously, Pakatan would have known of such laws before last general elections when they [...]

Malaysiakini

PKR’s Hulu Selangor member of parliament Dr Zainal Abidin Ahmad, 71, passed away this evening paving the way for a crucial by-election in the Pakatan Rakyat-ruled state.

Zainal Abidin (left), who succumbed to brain cancer, passed away at about 9.30pm at his home at along the ninth mile, Jalan Cheras, Kajang, [...]