Senate president Tan Sri Dr Rais Yatim at the Dewan Negara Friday( June 17). Wong’s senatorship is a

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KUALA LUMPUR( Bernama): The passive era of the Senate has ended and the time has come to activate and revive it as the country’s revered legislative institution, says Senate president Tan Sri Dr Rais Yatim.As such, he said all senators should study the powers provided to the Senate under the Federal Constitution and what they could do through the Senate’s Special Select Committees." The Senate will work closely with the Dewan Rakyat( House of Representatives) and we will strengthen the Parliamen

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PETALING JAYA: A slew of constitutional amendments will be tabled in the Dewan Rakyat next month to put at end to party hopping “ once and for all ”, says Datuk Seri Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar. The Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of Law and Parliament said the proposed amendments would be tabled during the Dewan Rakyat meeting from Feb 28 and will be passed by March 24.“ Instead of enacting a new set of laws which may have their constitutionality challenged in court, we a

JOHOR BARU: MCA, though respectful of its former partymen Datuk Tee Siew Kiong and Datuk Goh Tee Tee’s decision to quit as members, has told them not to continue tarnishing the party's name.In a strongly-worded statement, Johor MCA liaison committee deputy chairman Datuk Lim Pay Hen and MCA presidential council member Tan Tuan Peng hit out at Tee and Goh who blamed their decision on the party president. They called the seasoned politicians’ move as" categorically biased, baseless and nonsensical

Adviser to the Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin was on Monday elected a senator from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on a seat vacated by PTI leader Muhammad Ayub Afridi. Last month, Afridi had submitted his resignation as member of the upper house to Senate Chairman Sadiq Sanjrani.... " He received all the[ PTI] votes.... Four votes were rejected and five members were not able to make it due to various reasons." Commenting on the exponential rise in inflation, Tarin said that this was a