After losing the confidence of his party’s central delegates, MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat is taking four days’ leave until Wednesday and will not issue any statements, his aide said. The Transport Minister’s office issued a terse two-line statement about his plans in the next few days. He is scheduled to attend the [...]

The split in the MCA took a turn for the worse yesterday night with the presidential council deciding to sack deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek, on the recommendation of the party’s disciplinary committee. The expulsion of Dr Chua is ostensibly his punishment for tarnishing the party’s image over the disclosure in late [...]

PAS’s Mohd Salleh Man has won the Permatang Pasir state vote here in Penang by a big majority of 4,551 votes. Official results show Mohd Salleh polled 9,618 votes while Barisan Nasional’s (BN) Rohaizat Othman received 5,067 votes. The win for PAS was widely expected as the seat is within Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s Permatang [...]

The explosive mystery letter, said to be written by anti-graft officers and which led to a sudden halt in the ongoing inquest on DAP political secretary Teoh Beng Hock’s death last week, hit a brick wall today when it failed to be marked as a “case exhibit”. The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission’s (MACC) director of legal [...]

The mystery letter delivered two days ago to Gobind Singh Deo, the lawyer for Teoh Beng Hock’s family, was sent by anonymous parties claiming to be “MACC officers” who urged the authorities to probe a senior anti-graft officer for corruption and involvement in the DAP political aide’s death. The letter, written in Bahasa Malaysia and [...]

The controversy surrounding Barisan Nasional candidate Rohaizat Othman’s disbarment took a new twist today when his partner, the one Umno accused of taking their client’s money, appeared to deny the allegation. Yusri Ishak alleged that the money was used by Rohaizat to help his friend-cum-client to finance a land transaction worth RM 130,000 which was [...]