KUALA LUMPUR, April 12 Permatang Pauh MP Nurul Izzah Anwar has predicted a much smaller turnout of voters at the upcoming general election (GE15), despite the implementation of automatic voter registration and the lowering of the voting age to 18. She ascribed this to the deepened distrust.
KUALA LUMPUR: The special one-day Dewan Negara sitting on Tuesday (April 12) to amend the Constitution to pave the way for anti-hopping laws, has been called off.
IS the fact that cession payment had continued to be made to the (supposed) heirs of the Sulu Sultanate up until 2013 as a result of the Lahad Datu incursion materially relevant to their case for compensation, etc.?
Some would argue that Malaysia’s “resumption” of the cession payment of RM5,300 under the terms of the 1878 Agreement signed between Sultan Mohamet Jamal Al Alam with Baron von Overbeck and Alfred Dent constitutes an explicit (if not, implicit) recognition of the “lease” theory, i.e. that parts of Sabah (then North Borneo) were only leased – and not given up – to the North Borneo Chartered Company (NBCC)