PARLIAMENT
Friday, December 23, 2011Dewan Negara
Hectic week for senators
THE Dewan Negara debated late to see through a total of 11 Bills on the closing day of the 2011 parliamentary session.
Ministry: We have no power to sack sports leaders
THE Youth and Sports Ministry has no power to expel long-serving sports leaders, said minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek.
Maznah: Only 25% of SPM leavers pick vocational courses
ONLY 25% of 425,000 SPM leavers decided to pursue technical and vocational courses while the rest chose to study at universities, Deputy Human Resources Minister Datuk Maznah Mazlan said.
The idyllic Lake Gardens here saw a different scene when hundreds of lawyers gathered to protest against the Peaceful Assembly Bill. Led by Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee, they marched about half a kilometre to Parliament House to hand over a memorandum and their own proposed amendments. |
- Need for master planner of affordable housing
- DBKL will buy up defaulters' units
- Former police headquarters slotted for development
- Construction sector to gain more
- More than 90 projects worth billions to be farmed out by April
- Locations of two more mass rapid transit lines identified
- Artists come together in support of saving Jalan Sultan
- MRT Co speeding up the award of contracts
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