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KUALA LUMPUR, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today said that the Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul has acted in accordance with the constitutional and legal interpretations when deciding that six former Bersatu Members of Parliament (MPs) would retain their seats. Anwar said that Johari had also thoroughly read and interpreted the relevant laws, and this should be clearly understood by the Bersatu party leadership. He said this was because Bersatu, during the discussions about the (anti-party hopping) law, had opposed the provision that anyone expelled from their respective party would automatically lose their seats. ‘We know because

KULIM, A man has been remanded for six days to help in the investigation into the case of two brothers who consumed snacks laced with rat poison in Kampung Padang Ubi, Labu Besar here last Sunday. The remand order was issued by Kulim Sessions Court Judge Mirza Mohamad for investigations under Section 31(1)(a) of the Child Act 2001 and Section 284 of the Penal Code. Earlier, the suspect, dressed in a lockup uniform, arrived at the Kulim Court Complex at around 8 am under police escort. Media previously reported that the two children, Muhammad Akil Syauqi Nur Sufyan, 3, and

KUALA LUMPUR, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today said that the Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul has acted in accordance with the constitutional and legal interpretations when deciding that six former Bersatu Members of Parliament (MPs) would retain their seats. Anwar said that Johari had also thoroughly read and interpreted the relevant laws, and this should be clearly understood by the Bersatu party leadership. He said this was because Bersatu, during the discussions about the (anti-party hopping) law, had opposed the provision that anyone expelled from their respective party would automatically lose their seats. ‘We know because

KUALA LUMPUR, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today said that the Dewan Rakyat Speaker Tan Sri Johari Abdul has acted in accordance with the constitutional and legal interpretations when deciding that six former Bersatu Members of Parliament (MPs) would retain their seats. Anwar said that Johari had also thoroughly read and interpreted the relevant laws, and this should be clearly understood by the Bersatu party leadership. He said this was because Bersatu, during the discussions about the (anti-party hopping) law, had opposed the provision that anyone expelled from their respective party would automatically lose their seats. ‘We know because

KUALA LUMPUR, The ringgit has strengthened against the US dollar in the early trade today, buoyed by expectations of a global interest rate cut which has been dampening sentiment towards the greenback, an analyst said. At 9 am, the ringgit rose to 4.6900/6970 versus the US dollar from yesterday’s close of 4.6985/7010. Bank Muamalat Malaysia Bhd chief economist Dr Mohd Afzanizam Abdul Rashid said the US Dollar Index (DXY) fell as the United States (US) Federal Reserve (Fed) chair Jerome Powell indicated that a rate cut would happen without needing to wait for the country’s inflation to be lower than