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- GE13: One symbol to represent Pakatan in next polls, says Kit Siang
- GE13: Soi Lek urged to step down immediately
- Landslide near Dang Wangi LRT station, no casualties (updated)
| GE13: One symbol to represent Pakatan in next polls, says Kit Siang Posted: 07 May 2013 08:48 AM PDT JOHOR BARU: Pakatan Rakyat candidates will contest under one symbol in the next polls and not three as in GE13, said DAP adviser Lim Kit Siang. He said that the party's main aim post-GE13 would be to step up work in areas where we lost by a slim majority and to register Pakatan as a proper coalition. Lim added that the battle for Putrajaya was not over and he was looking forward to the next general election. "The shift in votes do not reflect a shift by the Chinese community alone but by all Malaysians. "In the next battle, we have to focus on the semi-rural and rural areas where we must convince our Malay brothers that it is time for change," he said during a DAP dinner at the Maedo Restaurant in Taman Ungku Tun Aminah in Skudai here on Tuesday. For more election stories, please visit The Star's GE13 site |
| GE13: Soi Lek urged to step down immediately Posted: 07 May 2013 07:33 AM PDT KANGAR: There are continued calls for MCA president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek to resign immediately. Sabah MCA deputy chief Datuk Paul Kong Sing Chu said as Dr Chua was also the state chief of Johor and Perak where MCA suffered massive losses in the elections, the president should resign immediately to pave way for a new party leadership. His state counterpart, Sabah MCA secretary Kelvin Lim, said resigning was the only "honorable and appropriate" way for Dr Chua. In a statement issued here Tuesday, Lim said he was making a personal call with a heavy heart as it was in the best interests of the party, which managed to retain only seven parliamentary and 11 state seats, its poorest performance in its history. Padang Besar MCA division chief Datuk Loh Yon Foo told a press conference that Dr Chua should step down, saying the president had failed to deliver. On MCA's decision not to accept any government post after failing to do better than the 2008 general election, Loh urged the some 400 members who are mostly holding positions in the various village security and development committees to step down. An online news portal also reported that three MCA Selangor division chiefs made a similar call for Dr Chua to resign. Tan Chong Seng (Kuala Selangor), Lee Wei Keat (Subang) and Liew Yuen Keong (Serdang) said party morale was affected after Dr Chua ceded three parliamentary and two state seats to other component parties in Barisan Nasional during the general election. On Monday, Pagoh MCA division chief Datuk Gan Hong Su and MCA Pasir Gudang division chief Tan Cher Puk had also called for Dr Chua's resignation. However, Taiping MCA division chief Lee Hock Tow said Dr Chua should not step down until there was a successor. He told China Press that this was to prevent any inter-party fighting. Dr Chua had earlier said that he would not be defending his presidency in the party's elections this year. He said he would in the meantime work on stablising the party under "this difficult condition". For more election stories, please visit The Star's GE13 site |
| Landslide near Dang Wangi LRT station, no casualties (updated) Posted: 07 May 2013 07:52 AM PDT KUALA LUMPUR: A landslide buried nine cars at a car park along Jalan Ampang, near the Jalan Dang Wangi intersection. No casualties or injuries occurred as the cars were parked. Reports indicate that the area is still unstable as soil movement can still be seen. Parts of Jalan Ampang near the scene have been closed to traffic. Earlier, Twitter users were reporting a landslide in front of the Dang Wangi LRT station near Bukit Nanas in Kuala Lumpur. Some motorists were tweeting that a number of cars had been buried by the landslide. User @Preez_bridabel tweeted; "Landslide at bukit nenas due to heavy rain, I was on my way to Dang Wangi Lrt station..please drive safe". Another user, @Pijoel94 tweeted, "Tanah Runtuh di Hadapan Stesen LRT Dang Wangi. Banyak kereta tertimbus (Landlside in front of LRT Dang Wangi. Many cars covered)". Over in PETALING JAYA, a woman narrowly escaped with her life after a landslip in Bukit Gasing caused a tree to fall on her car while she was driving home. Shanthi Kanthaswamy, 48, was driving along Jalan 5/60 during heavy rain on Tuesday night when the tree fell on the bonnet of her Honda Accord, badly damaging the engine. "I was driving home at about 8.15pm when I heard rumbling sounds on my left and a tree came crashing down in front of me. "Luckily I was driving very slowly, or else the impact could have been worse and I could have been thrown off the road. "I am thankful to have escaped with my life," said a visibly shaken Shanthi. Fraser Towers joint management body chairman Mohd Kamar, said residents in the area had been complaining about landslips in the area for years. "We have been fighting this issue for more than five years, trying to get the authorities to solve the problem but not enough has been done. "It is endangering the lives of the residents," he said. Bukit Gasing's newly-elected state assemblyman Rajiv Risyakaran said that he would help to expedite efforts to prevent further landslips from occurring in the area. "I am told that the slopes where the landslips are happening is on privately-owned land, and I hope that the owner will take responsibility for it. "In the meantime, I urge the Petaling Jaya City Council to speed up works," he said, adding that he had met mayor Datin Paduka Alinah Ahmad earlier to discuss the issues in Bukit Gasing. |
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