PETALING JAYA: Public Accounts Committee (PAC) chairman Wong Kah Woh has misled the public by claiming that the Dewan Rakyat Speaker has the power to make Parliamentary Select Committee hearings public, says an MP.
BINTULU, Dec 11 Krian constituents should not waste their votes on Datuk Ali Biju, who has already withdrawn from defending his seat, said Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) Sarawak secretary Ibrahim Mohamad. He called on voters in the constituency to use their ballots wisely come polling.
KUCHING: Despite calls by Puncak Borneo MP Datuk Willie Mongin for his three other Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia comrades to withdraw from the election, at least two of them are sticking to their decision to contest.
SERIAN, Dec 10 Puncak Borneo MP Datuk Willie Mongin has urged Parti Pribumi Bersatu Malaysia (Bersatu) members contesting as Independent candidates to withdraw from contesting in the 12th Sarawak election. He said that their candidacy should not have happened as advised by Bersatu president Tan.
Applications from smallholders for grants through the Smallholder Oil Palm Replanting Stimulus Scheme approved under Budget 2022 are being refined, said Deputy Minister of Plantation Industries and Commodities (MPIC) Datuk Willie Mongin.
He said the government had approved an allocation of RM35 million under Budget 2022 to help smallholders start their replanting activities.
“Applications (from smallholders) under this scheme are being refined,” he told a press conference in Parliament Tuesday. Besides the grant allocation, the government would also provide quality oil palm seedling clones as well as fertilisers to enable the smallholders to increase production from their estates