PERSPECTIVE

Economists have stressed the need to reform GLCs to ensure they are efficient and operate with sufficient checks and balances.

The trade-off we make between the present and the future.

Billions of ringgit of dubious allocations.

Budget 2021 has greatly disappointed SMEs and micro enterprises who urgently need financial support to survive in the long term.

Dzulkefly Ahmad has lamented the heavy budget cut in almost all health services.

Lim Kit Siang has urged Tengku Zafrul Aziz to restore the cuts in funds for public health and curative care in the annual budget.

The government believes that Malaysia's economy would fare better next year against the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic and economic downturn.

The fledgeling PN government tabled its Budget 2021 yesterday.

A lawyer today said the move to limit Parliament to just 80 MPs at any one time from next week is a threat to democracy.

Parliamentary proceedings in Malaysia can easily be conducted online through video-conferencing.

The attorney-general cannot represent Putrajaya in its suit to dispute the decision of the Agong in rejecting the cabinet’s advice to declare an emergency in the country.

Anthony Loke said Tajuddin Abdul Rahman has a narrow political view for thinking that equal monetary allocation to opposition MPs amounts to "killing" the BN.

UMNO-BN is whitewashing Najjib’s criminality and glossing over his betrayal of the nation’s trust, and giving him a patina of respectability he does not deserve.

In raising the matter of an emergency again yesterday, Muhyiddin Yassin looked desperate.

He has disappointed us twice before; he doesn’t deserve a third chance.