Some of the highlights of the Budget 2010 presented by the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak are as follows; Employees EPF contributions will be raised again to 11 per cent on a voluntary basis with immediate effect. However, from Jan 1, 2011 employees’ EPF contribution will revert to 11 per cent. The Government [...]

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak announced a 28-member Cabinet with 25 ministries that saw eight ministers dropped and seven new faces appointed. Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin, who won the Umno deputy presidency in last month’s party elections, was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister. Najib, who took his oath of office as the new [...]

Najib Razak was sworn in as Malaysia’s sixth prime minister Friday, assuming charge of reuniting the fractured ruling party and steering the nation through the global economic downturn. Image via Wikipedia He took the oath of office in front of the Malaysian king at a ceremony at the palace broadcast live on national television. The [...]

DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang wondered aloud yesterday as to how both the Prime Minister and his deputy could be out of the country this week. “Why is the 30-year standing rule or of longer vintage that both the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister should not be out of the country at the [...]

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi will not defend the Umno presidency. He told leaders of the Barisan Nasional (BN) component parties here today that he will quit as party president by March next year. This will pave the way for Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who is favoured to win the party presidency, to take [...]

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Badawi says he will not reconvene Parliament next Tuesday, as demanded by Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. “I do not see any reason to call an emergency sitting as we are sitting after Ramadan,” he said after today’s Umno supreme council meeting here. Earlier today, Anwar had demanded the [...]