Archive for June, 2008
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
Live from state assembly hall
State assembly sitting has just started. The question and answer session (1.5 hour) is going on now. BN state assemblymen are dissatisfied with the speaker. They are accussing the speaker for not allowing additional questions from them. All of them are suddenly talking about “fairness”, “keadilan” etc, rare words from them.
In fact, the speaker has [...]
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
Last minute maintenance
Burning midnight oil…
Last minute maintenance works are being carried out in the state assembly hall today. Tomorrow will be the first Perak assembly hall sitting since the exhilarating “political tsunami”. It is my debut sitting as well. I hope I would not embarrass my constituencies and myself ;p
Keeping my fingers crossed…
p/s: The Perak [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Article from the former Bar Council President
Democracy belongs to the people
On 18 June 2008, the Star published a comment piece under the title “Futile to protest against petrol and diesel hikes”. I wrote a response to that article, and emailed it to the editor of the Star, with a request that it be published either as an article or a letter [...]
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Monday, June 16th, 2008
Dr. Lee shares my view on the issue of Mayor
Monday June 16, 2008
PKR: We prefer a full-time Ipoh mayor
We don’t want the person to leave office to attend
Parliament all the time« DR LEE BOON CHYE
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IPOH: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) has set several criteria for the potential candidate who will take up the post of Ipoh mayor.
PKR national vice-president Dr Lee Boon [...]
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Sunday, June 15th, 2008
June 27: Decision on objections to petition
IPOH: The High Court yesterday fixed June 27 to decide on preliminary objections in an election petition challenging the victory of Teja state assemblyman Chang Li Kang.
The objections were raised by Chang, a returning officer and the Election Commission.
Judge Datuk Siti Mariah Ahmad made the decision after hearing submissions from counsel Edmund Bon and [...]
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
My questions in DUN
After gathering opinions from you, I have finally submitted my questions. I am sorry that I could not accommodate all the suggested questions, due to the limitation on numbers of questions. However, I believe most of the important issues have been touched by Pakatan Rakyat ADUN.
YB Yee (Pokok Assam) is going to ask questions on [...]
