Tuesday, 25 May 2021 02:00 PM MYT
BY IDA LIM
Muda’s pro tem vice-president and lawyer Lim Wei Jiet speaks to reporters at the Kuala Lumpur High Court April 27, 2021. ― Picture by Hari Anggara
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 The High Court today decided that it will hear a lawsuit by former minister Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman’s Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (Muda), which the party had filed last month in a bid to be officially registered by the government as a political party in order to contest in general elections.
KUALA LUMPUR: The High Court here has granted leave to the Malaysian United Democratic Alliance (Muda) to initiate its judicial review in an attempt to challenge the Home Minister and the Registrar of Societies (ROS) over its registration as a political party.
Muda s lawyer Lim Wei Jiet said that High Court judge Justice Noorin Badaruddin had granted leave as the Attorney General’s Chambers (AGC) did not have any objections to the application.
“The next case management is fixed on June 8 before deputy registrar Firdaus Sidqi Sharil Azli, ” he said when contacted.
Lim said it has been 110 days since Muda’s appeal to the Home Minister on Feb 4 regarding the status of the party s registration.
Foreign students in limbo as course accreditation revoked
Around 800 foreign students in Malaysia are in limbo after the Malaysian Qualifications Agency (MQA) revoked accreditation for eight courses at the private Limkokwing University of Creative Technology (LUCT), which also operates a number of branch campuses elsewhere in Asia and in Africa.
Foreign students at the private university in Selangor state near Kuala Lumpur said numerous bachelors, MBA and PhD courses at LUCT Malaysia have had accreditation revoked by the MQA after students had already commenced the course.
This appeared to be due to an “inability to maintain certain requirements and standards set by the relevant authorities”, Limkokwing students said at a press conference earlier this month.