Dear friends, there will be a Parliamentary Round Table on The Water
Bills 2006 this Sunday. Please come out in full force to voice your
opinions to the Members of Parliament.
Date: Sunday, 7th May 2006
Time: 10.00 a.m.
Venue: Parliament House, Committee Room No. 1
Dress Code: Formal
All are invited.
DAP
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Shahrir quits as BBC chief in a huff
May 4, 06 11:56am
Backbenchers Club (BBC) chairperson Shahrir Abdul Samad announced his
resignation abruptly outside Parliament this morning.
Earlier, Shahrir who is also Johor Bahru MP, had walked out of the House
after his fellow backbenchers did not join him in supporting Opposition
Leader Lim Kit Siang’s motion to refer a member of parliament to the
privileges committee.
The MP concerned, whose identity was not disclosed, was reported to have
allegedly asked the Customs and Excise department to ‘close one eye’ in a
case involving the import of illegal sawn timber in Malacca.
According to a report in New Straits Times today, the MP was said to have
gone to the Malacca Customs Office last month to ask the department showed
leniency for a company which had imported sawn timber in breach of regulations.
The company had tried to bring in sawn timber with a cross-section of more
than 60 inches when only timber below such measurement is allowed into the
country.
The report said that Custom officials had rejected the MP’s request, seized
the consignment of timber and fined the errant company.
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