Sassy MP

by Sameer Padania, Washington Post Blog.
When the Malaysian police started accepting crime reports sent in by members of the public via cell phone, they never expected their own misdemeanors to one day be caught in the frame.
Malaysians have had to put up with police corruption and misconduct as a part of everyday life. But now [...]

I woke up a bit late this morning after a bad dream. Today is the debate on the budget allocation given to the Transport Ministry. I then recalled a driving trainer had once complaint to me about the problems faced by the driving training institute. I then tried to get his number and call [...]

Yesterday I managed to speak on the land problems faced by the locals in the Tawau and Semporna areas in Sabah during the debate on allocations for the Ministry of Regional & Rural Development. This issue actually was not related to that ministry but I tried my luck to highlight the issue.
Today, a rather conscientious [...]

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Today, during the debate on the Ministry of Regional and Rural Development, I managed to bring up the land issues faced by the people of Tawau.
In my seven years as MP this is the first time I have debated on this ministry as my constituency is in urban area and I have very little to [...]

Benches By The Trench Scandal stinks

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The campaign to establish the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission, initiated by the Bar Council together with a coalition of NGOs including Amnesty International has received over 300 endorsements from various organizations.
The IPCMC Coalition is organizing a handing over of the endorsements to the Prime Minister next Tuesday and a mass gathering of all [...]

The passing mark is 40 only, but the result, especially for Maths is shocking. The results show that about 80.3% of the students passed Science while only 53.1% of the students passed Maths.