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Kota Kinabalu: Parti Solidariti Tanahairku has advised voters against voting for state PKR and DAP as their actions in the run-up to the 14th general election clearly show that they are no longer credible and cannot be trusted to safeguard Sabah. Its Deputy President cum party candidate for Liawan seat, Datuk Dr Kong Fui Seng said both parties had previously insisted that they would not give way to local parties.
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak can no longer count on the state of Sabah on the island of Borneo as a "fixed deposit" for his ruling coalition, a senior defector said, just days before the country goes to the polls. Shafie Apda, leader of Parti Warisan Sabah speaks at a campaign stop in Kimanis, a largely agrarian district about 60 kilometres southwest, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia May 5, 2018.
Since Rodrigo Duterte began his term as the 16th president of the Philippines in 30 June 2016, Filipinos and the international community have watched in horror at accounts of dead bodies found nightly in the country's streets, linked to extra-judicial killings . What is more appalling is that the police force, supposed to protect and serve people, are themselves involved in or directly doing the killings.
Leftist lawmakers are asking President Rodrigo Duterte to do away with the preconditions he has set for the resumption of the stalled peace talks between the Government of the Republic of the Philippines and the National Democratic Front of the Philippines . The Philippine Government and National Democratic Front opened the Fourth Round of Peace Talks ACT-Teachers Reps.
Prof. Luis V. Teodoro is a former dean of the University of the Philippines College of Mass Communication, where he teaches journalism. He writes political commentary for BusinessWorld.
Yet again the knee jerk reaction in Thailand to any criticism is to kill the messenger rather than fix the problem. Your report says the governor of Chiang Mai wants criminal charges laid against a local magazine for posting a "blasphemous" painting on Facebook showing ancient kings, Mengrai, Ramkhamhaeng and Ngam Muang, wearing pollution masks as part of a campaign to protest against hazardous smog.
The Anti-Fake News Bill is in fact a Save Najib from 1MDB Scandal Bill which will criminalise all news about 1MDB scandal in Malaysia available worldwide and punishable as "fake news" The 13th Parliament is treated with utter contempt in this last parliamentary meeting and the world is watching how a Parliament in a global kleptocracy is reduced into a farce and charade.
No "comfort zone" for DAP leaders, who must be prepared to take risks so that Pakatan Harapan can succeed in its mission to create a national "political tsunami" in the 14GE to Save Malaysia from kleptocracy Two nights ago, the DAP Selangor State Assemblywoman for Damansara Utama, Yeo Bee Yin, announced that she was responding to the DAP's call to contest in Johor in the imminent 14th General Election, as Parliament could be dissolved as early as in a fortnight's time.
C4 Centre and Bersih 2.0 urge parliamentarians who will be debating the motion in the Swiss parliament next week to to return a portion of the stolen funds laundered in Switzerland back to the people of Malaysia. Last week has seen the discourse on 1Malaysia Development Berhad intensify around the subject of the seizure of Jho Low's luxury yacht Equanimity in a joint-effort action by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Indonesian police force.
Kuala Lumpur: The debate in the Dewan Rakyat became heated at one juncture Wednesday in relation to the dissemination of fake news. Datuk Seri Bung Moktar Radin , who was speaking during the debate on the motion of thanks for the royal address, said the drafting of legislation to address the dissemination of fake news was important as there was much dissemination of fake news.
By MANIK MEHTA NEW YORK, Feb 25 -- The increasingly influential Malaysian Chinese community, galvanized under the Malaysian Chinese Association Club as part of the Malaysian Association of America , celebrated on Friday night here the Chinese lunar year in pomp and style while, at the same time, preserving the Chinese cultural traditions. The large hall of the New Mulan Restaurant in the Chinese-dominated Flushing district of New York - was packed with Malaysian Chinese and their families, along American guests, attired in colourful clothing and applauding the traditional lion dance that is emblematic of the lunar year.
An era of hate-filled rhetoric and global insecurity has endangered human rights around the world, spurring an extraordinary wave of social activism. Those are the underlying findings of Amnesty International's annual State of the World's Human Rights report, released for the first time on Thursday.
Kota Kinabalu: Opposition Parti Warisan Sabah is fiercely denying that it is a proxy of Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in the State as it goes into talks with Sabah Pakatan Harapan for an electoral seat pact. Warisan Youth Chief Datuk Mohd Azis Jamman said the cautious response to Sabah Pakatan's offer for their party to lead the opposition in the State was a clear indication that they were not a proxy of Pakatan Chairman Tun Mahathir.
Ten Southeast Asian leaders watched a parade and stunt performances as India celebrated Friday's anniversary of its national constitution taking effect. Marching bands, floats, military hardware, camels and stunt performers on motorbikes were paraded from the president's palace through the tree-lined roads of central Delhi.
Traveling at speed in a ramshackle truck, a group of 44 Rohingya refugees make the last stage of their harrowing 10-day journey into Bangladesh after fleeing from Myanmar. Dazed and exhausted, they stumble out of the vehicle when they arrive at Balukhali refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, many of them cradling young children.
As 2018 begins in Cambodia and around the world, we take a last look at what made headlines and, fitting in this day, lit up Facebook and Twitter in Asia in 2017. From the assassination of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother at a Malaysia airport to smog-filled Indian skies and a year-end US presidential visit, the images were all-too-real.
In this Friday, Dec. 1, 2017 photo, Poppy Sombah, left, and Freddy Sombah listen to an Indonesian community leader at their home in Somersworth, N.H. The couple fled Indonesia to escape harassment from their Muslim neighbors following Poppy's conversion to Christianity after marrying. After word spread earlier this year that the Indonesian community in New Hampshire faced deportation they receive unexpected support from Republican Gov. Chris Sununu.
Just days before Thursday's 76th anniversary of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, marine researchers have found and explored the undersea wreckage of the U.S. ship that was the first to fire upon a Japanese vessel that day. On Nov. 30, the crew of the research vessel Petrel sent an underwater drone 650 feet below to explore and document the remnants of the USS Ward, according to a statement by the USS Ward Expedition.
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