Govt oil royalty ad misleading, Husam

Kelantan exco and  Salor assemblyperson Husam Musa, came out fighting, in a point by point rebuttal of the government’s recent ‘explanation’ campaign on the Kelantan oil royalty issue.

Pulling no punches, he labelled the full page advertisement in Umno-linked Malay daily Utusan ‘an attempt to mislead the public’.

Husam who helms the state’s Petroleum Committee said, “all rational and mature persons would understand the real intent of the law. The government however, is more concerned in advancing

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Downpour dampens Najib’s CNY visit

It rained cats and dogs on Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s Chinese New Year parade, wreaking havoc on the plans carefully laid for the national leader and his entourage.

His security detail, protocol officers and event officials ran around frantically, trying to salvage what they could from what had become the ‘wet batik-shirt’ washout.

But the rain was not the only dampener in Pandamaran last night,

There was also a lack of enthusiasm from the estimated 20,000 crowd,

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