KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said many times, and in different ways, too, so the message is clear and consistent - Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be his successor and there should be no doubt of this. But for whatever reasons, the Prime Minister is constantly grilled about this by the media. Will the Parti Keadilan Rakyat president succeed him as Prime Minister, and when will the world's oldest prime minister step down? This is the regular line of questioning. It's incredible that he has never lost his cool answering these two questions, and neither has he directed his press officers to tell the media not to bring the subject up. So the press keeps bringing it up, and, for even stranger reasons, these repeated news reports still grab an audience. The only thing that brought them together was their determination to end Barisan Nasional's 60-year stranglehold, to topple Datuk Seri Najib Razak and haul him and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor to court to … [Read more...] about Is Mahathir paving the way ahead?: The Star columnist
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The Sixers’ answer to Siakam’s big opening game was to put a fellow Cameroonian on the Raptors star
By Bruce Arthur Sports Columnist Tues., April 30, 2019 Pascal Siakam was pondering. He acknowledges Joel Embiid is a challenge, because that’s obvious. Embiid might be wheezing, overweight and, in Game 2 of this Raptors-Sixers second-round series, suffering from what he succinctly termed “the s----.” But the Philadelphia centre is still a holy terror defensively, able to leap out, get fooled, and still recover to the rim to block out the sun. As Raptors centre Marc Gasol said, “We know once the ball gets there and gets into the paint, a lot of the time Joel is coming.” The 76ers adjusted to Siakam’s near-perfect 29-point opener by putting his fellow Cameroonian on him Monday night, because the math worked. Siakam is most effective when he beats someone to the rim; Embiid is a seven-foot monster there. Siakam shot 9-for-25 in Game 2, often against Embiid. He pondered a solution. “Obviously he’s bigger than me, but … [Read more...] about The Sixers’ answer to Siakam’s big opening game was to put a fellow Cameroonian on the Raptors star
Andrew Scheer’s climate plans hit by floodwaters
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By Chantal Hébert Star Columnist Mon., April 29, 2019 OTTAWA—It is not just huge swaths of ordinarily dry land in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick that were submerged as a result of a severe flooding this past weekend. So was a Conservative plan to belatedly put to rest queries about the tenor of the party’s climate policy. Federal Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer had tentatively circled the opening day of his party’s last big pre-election Quebec gathering on Friday to unveil his long-awaited plan. The idea was to come up with a detailed policy in time for the one-year anniversary — on Monday — of Scheer’s promise to present an alternative to the Liberal climate-change framework. But that was until actual climate-driven events got in the way. Article Continued Below Against the backdrop of wall-to-wall media coverage of the floods, the risk to the Conservatives was not so much that their announcement would … [Read more...] about Andrew Scheer’s climate plans hit by floodwaters
Scheer’s climate plans hit by floodwaters
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By Chantal Hébert Star Columnist Mon., April 29, 2019 OTTAWA—It is not just huge swaths of ordinarily dry land in Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick that were submerged as a result of a severe flooding this past weekend. So was a Conservative plan to belatedly put to rest queries about the tenor of the party’s climate policy. Federal Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer had tentatively circled the opening day of his party’s last big pre-election Quebec gathering on Friday to unveil his long-awaited plan. The idea was to come up with a detailed policy in time for the one-year anniversary — on Monday — of Scheer’s promise to present an alternative to the Liberal climate-change framework. But that was until actual climate-driven events got in the way. Article Continued Below Against the backdrop of wall-to-wall media coverage of the floods, the risk to the Conservatives was not so much that their announcement would … [Read more...] about Scheer’s climate plans hit by floodwaters
Calm before another storm in Johor?: The Star columnist
KUALA LUMPUR (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - What a roller-coaster of a week it has been for Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. For a while, it seemed like his career was once again on the line as he came under fire from his party over the controversial reshuffle of the Johor exco. The Bersatu president and his powerful party chairman were clearly not on the same page over it and Muhyiddin was criticised for going against the no-reshuffle decision made by no less than the Cabinet. But something intangible has happened along the way and Muhyiddin may have finally found his mojo in the midst of a crisis. The Chinese word for crisis is made up of two other words - danger and opportunity - and it looks like Muhyiddin may have survived the danger and turned it into an opportunity. He is now seen as the bridge across the troubled waters between the Johor Palace and Putrajaya. Some political watchers even credited Muhyiddin as being statesmanlike in handling this complicated issue between two powerful … [Read more...] about Calm before another storm in Johor?: The Star columnist