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Tawar jawatan GLC — DAP dah jadi macam UMNO dan PKR

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Dulu DAP menentang keras lantikan politik dalam GLC Media melaporkan semalam, Pengerusi DAP Johor Puan Teo Nie Ching ( gambar , atas sekali ) mendedahkan parti itu merancang memindahkan ADUN Skudai Puan Marina Ibrahim ke satu lagi kerusi bandar pada pilihan raya Johor akan datang — dengan jawatan pengerusi badan berkanun disediakan sebagai pelan sandaran. Teo membayangkan rundingan kerusi Pakatan Harapan (PH) Johor sedang berlangsung, selain menyatakan kekesalan terhadap keputusan Marina yang diumumkan pagi semalam untuk bersara daripada politik aktif. Mempertahankan rancangannya, Teo berkata perkara itu telah dijelaskan kepada ahli politik berusia 38 tahun itu, dengan perancangan supaya dia membina kehadirannya sebagai wakil rakyat terlebih dahulu sebelum menjadi sebahagian daripada rancangan DAP untuk meluaskan pengaruh ke kerusi bukan tradisi. "Pakatan Harapan Johor telah memulakan rundingan pembahagian kerusi. Walaupun rundingan masih berjalan, ada kemungkinan yang besar bahaw...
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Australian analyst suggests DAP to exit unity government, contest solo or align with Rafizi's Bersama

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The Democratic Action Party (DAP), once the fiery champion of a “Malaysian Malaysia,” finds itself in a deepening legitimacy crisis as part of the Madani government. What began as a hard-fought entry into federal power has transformed into a slow erosion of its core support base. The party’s ministers are seen by many as comfortably ensconced in Putrajaya, far removed from the confrontational spirit of Tan Sri Lim Kit Siang and the late Encik Karpal Singh. Grassroots frustration is deep-seated with a widening chasm existing between leadership loyal to the coalition and a base demanding bolder advocacy for Chinese community concerns. That's what Thailand-based Australian Prof Dr Murray Hunter has to say. W riting in his blog today, Hunter said the latest flashpoint pig farming in Selangor fully encapsulates the party’s dilemma. A royal decree against expansion, environmental complaints, and politicisation by opposition forces have boxed DAP into a classic Malaysian ethnic-religious ...
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Indonesia’s new law changes how its domestic workers see their role

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Pani (left), a live-in domestic worker, with her employer of 44 years, PuanTokiko Latuharhary, atbTokiko's home in South Tangerang, just outside Jakarta. The Straits Times Picture In JAKARTA, Indonesia, Cik Pani, 64, has worked as a live-in domestic worker for the same family for 44 years. A native of Boyolali, Central Java, she came to Jakarta as a teenager after her brother sent a letter saying someone was looking for a domestic worker. She never left, said Karina Tehusijarana, who wrote this article for Singapore-based The Straits Times and also published in Malaysian popular English daily, The Star yesterday, Saturday 30 May 2026. “I decided to come because I heard that living in Jakarta was good,” Pani told the asingapire news outlet. Her employer, Puan Tokiko Latuharhary, 75, needed help at home while she and her husband worked. Pani, who goes by one name, became the primary caregiver of all three of the Latuharhary children, accompanying Tokiko on paediatrician visits and ...
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