Category: General

TAGAYTAY CITY: Filipinos will experience many firsts in the midterm polls on May 12, 2025, the chair of the Commission on Elections (Comelec) said Saturday. Among the first-time features is the posting of the certificates of candidacy (COC) of all local and national candidates and certificates of nomination and certificates of acceptance of nomination of party-lists two weeks after the end of filing. ‘So the public may see what they (candidates) put in their COCs. The public would know who that candidate is,’ Comelec Chair George Erwin Garcia said. Garcia was among the speakers during the third day of the

MIRI, Barisan Nasional’s (BN) decisive victory in the Mahkota state by-election in Johor today signals the people’s desire for the Unity Government to be given the opportunity to prioritise the country’s economic development, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. He said BN candidate Syed Hussein Syed Abdullah’s overwhelming majority of 20,648 votes was beyond prior expectations. ‘No one expected Barisan Nasional, representing the Unity Government, to win by over 20,000 votes. I believe this is a sign that the voters there – Malays, Chinese and Indians – have the view that the Unity Government should be given a chance

KUALA LUMPUR, A secondary school teacher won the main prize of the WOW! Kasih Draw today, thanks to her children’s National Education Savings Scheme (Simpan SSPN) accounts. Chan Yin Ling, 44, who teaches at Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan Bandar Kerayong, Bera, Pahang won RM10,000 in cash. ‘I opened the Simpan SSPN Prime accounts for my children in March 2017, at that time my eldest child was six and my second was three. ‘I really support the Simpan SSPN for my children’s education in the future, if my children studies abroad or goes to university, I can use this savings,’ she said

KLUANG, Barisan Nasional (BN) retained the Mahkota state seat after its candidate Syed Hussien Syed Abdullah secured a resounding 20,648-vote majority win over his Perikatan Nasional (PN) challenger in the by-election held today. Syed Hussien, the Kluang UMNO youth chief and representing the Unity Government, garnered 27,995 votes, comfortably surpassing PN’s Mohamad Haizan Jaafar, who received 7,347 votes. The official results were announced by Returning Officer Azurawati Wahid at the Mahkota by-election official vote tallying centre at Dewan Tunku Ibrahim Ismail here tonight. She also announced that 339 ballot papers were rejected, and 24 were not returned. Azurawati thanked all

KUALA NERANG, A teenager, who along with his mother were swept away by floodwaters in Kampung Tanjung Kanan, here earlier this morning was found drowned about eight hours later. The body of Muhammad Rosman Rohadi, 19, was discovered at 5.25 pm about 150 metres from where he and his mother went missing. Kedah Malaysian Fire and Rescue Department (JBPM) Zone 1 head Senior Supt I Ahmad Aminuddin Abd Rahim said that the body of the teenager, a person with disabilities (PWD), was found lodged among oil palm fronds at the bottom of the flooded area. Meanwhile, Padang Terap police chief