Democratic Action Party and Parti Keadilan Rakyat have reached agreement on the allocation of parliamentary and state assembly seats for Penang for the next general election, expected in less than 70 days.
A joint media conference by leaders of both parties will be held in Penang on Wednesday to announce the details.

#1 by limkamput on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 - 10:15 pm
Ya, Jong, i am smiling, you are smart lah. I don’t understand why some are spending so much time here discussing US presidential election and politics. We can all get from Tv and newspapers and magazine,ok. So darkhorse, please, we don’t need your two cents worth analysis here. If there is any good come out of this coming US election, it is the fact that Americans are more colour blind than us now. Look like we still have long years to go before we judge a person based on his ability and character rather than the colour of his/her skin.
#2 by kritikus on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 - 10:30 pm
SYABAS YOU GUYS THIS IS WHAT WE LIKE TO HEAR. OPPOSITION BE UNITED AND YOU GIVE PEOPLE LIKE US ALOT OF CONFIDENCE AND A MUCH BETTER CHANCE TO REDUCE THE BN MAJORITY.
HOPE AND PRAY PAS ALSO JOIN FORCES WITHOUT CONDITION AND WE SUPPORT YOU AND MAY YOU WIN INSHA ALLAH.
ALLAH BLESS YOUR UNION
#3 by legalsabahan on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 - 11:10 pm
YB LIM KIT SIANG
I need your help and opinion.
1. Last year I sign up as a member of MCA, with the intention joining politics and voice out my opinion. But within a year I already fed up with the president attitude, he’s not forming this youth chamber for the good of local’s Chinese benefit, but his own reputation and his personal benefit. How am I able to get out of MCA and joining another party?
2. DAP is now cooperating with KEADILAN, will it be another BN, that Malay still hold majority in the opposition party? If that is true, how is it going to assure Chinese’s benefit, if the next election is won by the DAP and KEADILAN?
#4 by babique on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 - 11:32 pm
.. but based on newspaper report like sun and star, dap and keadilan did not agreed on the seat allocations in penang???
#5 by waterfrontcoolie on Tuesday, 8 January 2008 - 11:35 pm
some of us must be NUTS, we are talking about Malaysian issues, pops come in the US politics! If you are so interested in US politics, call CNN. Here we should concentrate on Barisan Alternate gaining at least 35% of all the seats at Federal level. To the Opposition parties, please be realitic of your own strength, don’t bite more than you can chew!! Fighting against each other will only ensure you lose out in the end! The incumbents have more resources than you all [ after 50 years of plundering the nation],
hence sincerely discuss amongst yourselves the real support each can get at each location. Once this is done than, just work for that candidate.
#6 by Count Dracula on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 12:40 am
“So darkhorse, please, we don’t need your two cents worth analysis here.” limkamfart
We?? Since when have been appointed spokesman for anybody on this blog? LOL
#7 by Count Dracula on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 1:10 am
YB Kit devoted an entire thread to Barack Obama:
“Yesterday, political history was made at the other side of the world when a black American, Barack Obama, created an upset and won the Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus, demonstrating that white Americans are prepared to elect a black president.†YB Kit
So do not insult YB Kit.
#8 by Count Dracula on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 1:13 am
“I don’t understand why some are spending so much time here discussing US presidential election and politics. We can all get from Tv and newspapers and magazine,ok. So darkhorse, please, we don’t need your two cents worth analysis here.” limkamfart
YB Kit devoted an entire thread to Barack Obama:
“Yesterday, political history was made at the other side of the world when a black American, Barack Obama, created an upset and won the Iowa Democratic Presidential Caucus, demonstrating that white Americans are prepared to elect a black president.†YB Kit
So do not insult YB Kit.
#9 by harrisonbinhansome on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 1:40 am
I am so sorry to “waterfrontcoolie”. Sorry to dissapoint you a bit, but bro darkhorse and I has put the US Presidential race to a cynosure here but I promise I am gonna make it short.
Just to recap your links, Senior bro Darkhorse,
“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that Hillary Clinton’s national polling lead continues to plummet. Her advantage is down to three points in a survey with a four-point margin of sampling error. Before the Iowa caucuses, the former First Lady held a seventeen-point advantage”.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/election_20082/2008_presidential_election/daily_presidential_tracking_poll
Sen. Barack Obama won seven of the 10 votes cast for Democrats in the first balloting of the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday in the northern hamlet of Dixville Notch, while Sen. John McCain won the Republican balloting.
I really couldn’t beleive my eyes when Obama made such an awe-inspiring sweep. The Republicans are relentlessly playing on
domestic securities.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7173183.stm
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Allow me to have your relevant viewpoint of Barrack’s book on Malaysian political parties:-(extract)
Let me quote what Obama has to say in his book, “The Audacity of Hopeâ€.
“In a country as diverse as ours, there will always be passionate arguments about how we draw the line when it comes to government action. That is how democracy works. But our democracy might work a bit better if we recognized that all of us possess values that are worthy of respect…†Obama
This is something UMNO leaders would do well to acknowledge.
It has led YB Kit to comment on the meteoric rise of Obama.
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Very well elucidated. But the facts here with UMNO is that they impenitent avarice lots with the “Mother of All ( )” that is the NEP.
Can proceed to the axis like the “keris waving, blood-bathing” threats, the dracanian ISA/OSA detaining anyone based on unfounded and/or speculated theories and fairy-tales allegations. Even Pauline Hanson wouldn’t be that blatant.
For those who think that your uptake on US politics are shallow, I seriously doubt they know who President George Walker Bush’s father is.
#10 by limkamput on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 1:59 am
waterfrontcoolie said: some of us must be NUTS, we are talking about Malaysian issues, pops come in the US politics!
Thank you waterfrontcoolie for finding the most appropriate word to describe people like darkhorse and dracula. They are just nuts, big nuts, small nuts, brainless nuts, coconuts, just nuts.
I have every right to go where I want to go and say what I want to say, so long as no vulgar words are used, unlike nut like you who never hesistate to use vulgar words on others.
#11 by limkamput on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 2:02 am
babique said .. but based on newspaper report like sun and star, dap and keadilan did not agreed on the seat allocations in penang???
don’t read them, period.
#12 by limkamput on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 2:11 am
dracula said “YB Kit devoted an entire thread to Barack Obama, So do not insult YB Kit. Like I say if you must be an asshole go elsewhere!”
Please don’t think too highly of darkhorse and yourself. Your writing and Sdr LIM’S posting are between sun and moon. So please don’t harbour ambition you can write like him. You will never be. And don’t insult his blog by using all the vulgar words in every of your posting.
#13 by BNseedell on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 2:51 am
CHANGE! CHANGE! CHANGE!
AUSTRALIA HAD CHANGED!
CHANGE! CHANGE! CHANGE!
SOUTH KOREA HAD CHANGED!
CHANGE! CHANGE! CHANGE!
TAIWAN WILL CHANGE REAL SOON!
Are Malaysians READY for CHANGE???
YES! YES! YES!
To the leaders of DAP, PKR & PAS:
Unite Now!! Compromise Now!! Don’t delay the coalition!! Don’t miss this golden opportunity! Many Malaysians are hungry for CHANGE!!
#14 by Colonel on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 3:01 am
Arghhh…! Limkamphut is still at it!!
#15 by DarkHorse on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 7:29 am
“For those who think that your uptake on US politics are shallow, I seriously doubt they know who President George Walker Bush’s father is.”
Living in the U.S. for so many years as I’m sure you once did or still are (I’m guessing of course from the way you write) and you being of mixed parentage gives you that rare insight into the kind of politics, values that one day hopefully would lift Malaysia out of the abyss she now finds herself in.
I am a novice as far as U.S. politics is concerned – having lived through only two U.S. Presidential elections, but at a time when the U.S. changed and when the world changed with her. I think that is important to me because it gives me the opportunity to witness the ‘change’ first hand.
I admire Obama because he is passionate about his beliefs, very honest, very inspiring and very intelligent. My admiration for the man will not cease even if he were to lose the nomination.
Take care.
#16 by Tickler on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 8:00 am
Obamamania
As Paul notes below, Obamamania is in full swing in New Hampshire. At the margin, that might help Mitt Romney, as independents join the stampede to vote for Obama in the Democratic primary.
Obama is getting the kind of fawning press coverage that John McCain received in 2000, the difference being that in Obama’s case, the positive coverage will continue if he gets the nomination. One aspect of Obama’s rise that the press avoids mentioning is the extent to which it is a fad. It is odd to think of political candidates in those terms, but we here in Minnesota know it can happen. The closest thing I’ve seen to the Obama phenomenon was in Minnesota in 1998, when Jesse Ventura was elected Governor on a third-party ticket. In the closing days of the campaign, it literally became a fad to support Ventura. Thousands of Minnesotans who had never voted before, mostly young people, turned out for him. Some voted for Ventura as a joke, thinking it would be funny to elect as Governor a former pro wrestler. Most, however, saw Ventura as “refreshing,” an agent of “change” and an antidote to partisan politics in St. Paul.
The Ventura experiment did not end happily. His support peaked on election day and eroded quickly as the novelty wore off. In Obama’s case, fortunately, there is plenty of time for the fad to wear thin and for hard questions to be asked and answered before ballots are cast in November.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2008/01/019486.php
#17 by Samson on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 10:37 am
Be wise in your selection of next government in the coming GE. Enough of the FAILED SYSTEM adopted by the ruling government.
We need a fair government to bring TRUE National unity, TRUE justice, IMPROVE wellbeing of rakyat, progressive growth and equal distribution of opportunity and wealth to ALL Malaysian.
DAP and opposition, it is time to rise up and make Malaysia a better place to stay.
WEALTH OF THE COUNTRY IS FOR THE RAKYAT IRRESPECTIVE OF RACE RELIGION OR STATUS.
#18 by oknyua on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 2:29 pm
Legalsabahan, no legal guys seem to answer your question.
So let a jack-of-all trade try to help you. I think membership is also tied up to your dues ie payment, of which it lapses automatically if your dues are not settled. In any case, you can always write and post a AR registered letter to them.
Secondly, the PKR case; that is my worry too. But I take comfort that for UMNO to reach this present level of notoriety, it takes them 50 years. Before UMNO was okay. The other point is, there will be two fronts in future, a good check and balance.
Hopefully something good is in my advice.
#19 by limkamput on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 2:30 pm
I admire Obama because he is passionate about his beliefs, very honest, very inspiring and very intelligent. My admiration for the man will not cease even if he were to lose the nomination. darkhorse
Ya, you are right, so easily taken in by all these talks. Tell me which President, from Carter, Reagan, Clinton and G.W. Bush did not campaign based on being a “Washington outsider” and promise change to America. Ya, the more they talked about change, the more America stay the same.
#20 by limkamput on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 2:32 pm
Arghhh…! Limkamphut is still at it!! colonel aka private@darkhorse@dracula@diaperhead. When do you want to confess your true identity?
#21 by Colonel on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 9:10 pm
As soon as you give us your e-mail, name and address.
Meanwhile, don’t litter the thread with your rubbish you call your ‘contribution’ to the blog.
Why are you hiding under an old thread?? Scared you might be spanked again?
#22 by limkamput on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 9:42 pm
colonel, you want me to give you my email? hmmm, let me see….., no, you can not be trusted. you know what, this line “Why are you hiding under an old thread??” sounds so familiar. I must have heard this from undergrad2 too.
#23 by shaolin on Wednesday, 9 January 2008 - 10:29 pm
Vote BN out simply b’coz there are far too much of
non-sensical and fishy things going on in the party!!
Do not accept their empty promises! After the GE,
price hike of all goods will flood and literally ‘drown’
everyone because of INFLATION…!!
#24 by Colonel on Thursday, 10 January 2008 - 12:16 am
Here is my private e-mail for you to communicate with me.
wsukong@yahoo.com
I think it is time you stop littering the blog with your personal remarks about commentators. You’ve been after Dark Horse even though he has not written anything that concerns you. It shows your continued abuse of the platform provided by this blogger for Malaysians to express opinions on public issues that affect their lives.
Nobody is interested to read about what you think of commentators.
So stop littering the blog with your personal remarks. It is disturbing to others and it is time you show some respect to YB Kit.
#25 by laifoong on Thursday, 10 January 2008 - 10:41 am
ha ha ha…..su kong, this malay impostor got the msg….he’s reading but don’t know wat to say….lol
#26 by kbp240874 on Thursday, 10 January 2008 - 10:42 am
Good news Uncle Lim, I wish all Malaysian will be rationale coming this election. Pls vote for your future of your loved ones.
And for DAP & PKR, pls be stronger to counter BN.
I’m for BA.BA.BA.BA.BA.BA
#27 by mysn1st on Thursday, 10 January 2008 - 3:20 pm
No doubt is a good news.
I hope both parties are able to stick to the agreement and truly prepare physically and mentally to follow what your had discuss.This is because so many bad experience happened before although so called “agreement” had fixed.
#28 by bennylohstocks on Thursday, 10 January 2008 - 9:00 pm
good cooperation…
http://malaysiancartoons.blogspot.com/2008/01/anwar-traitor-malaysiakini-anwar.html
#29 by limkamput on Thursday, 10 January 2008 - 9:31 pm
Colonel,
I so bad meh, going after darkhorse? Come on la, I only comment on what he said mah, like that also cannot, then what you want me to say. You just want me to come here and read all the half bake views is it. I also got brain mah, I also want to contribute to the debate la from time to time. Like for example, the great darkhorse talk so much about Obama as if he is the next US president la. May be this is the first time la he watching the US presidential election, easily impressed by all the rhetoric la. I am sure now he shut up already after New Hampshire. See I told him so earlier, but of course he and you think I talk cock la. We shall see la.
Why you want to give me your email address? I also never ask for it. What do you want me to write to you, love letter is it? I not so stupid la, one fellow pretend to give email, the other fellow pretend to call you by this name su kong. I think laifoong you better call you lou kong la. You people are a group of ****. Sorry better don’t use the word, after create problem for YB Kit. I agree with you la, Sdr Kit already got lots of work to do, so please don’t stress him up for nothing. I really really hope he or Guan Eng gets to become CM of Penang la. Penang people wake up la, the whole city is like a garbage dump, the public transportation is like non existence, the beaches stink, and new investment also hardly coming in. Although state government has not much power, but never mind la, I think YB Kit and Guan Eng can bring in fresh ideas to see how we can circumvent the constitution and bring new vitality to Penang. I hope darkhorse, undergrad2 and Jeffrey would not start to say, no no no, under our constitutional arrangement articles what what what, the state can not do this and that la, the court will say no. That is why I am so fed up with you people – a group of experts wannabe. You people really talk cock la, not me, hahahaha.
As for you laifoong, you are right la, I simply have nothing to say to you. You can’t write and you have no idea. I just wonder why you keep coming here. How is your day? You man or woman today?
#30 by sadcafe on Thursday, 10 January 2008 - 10:32 pm
Mr Lim,
Although I am not s supporter of DAP I believe you have the best chance this time for making a change in Penang. Penang Chinese are sick of Gerakan and Penang Malays are not that hot about UMNO either. They have both failed the Penang voters miserably.
Barring any widespread cheating DAP and PKR now have the best combination to force a change in Penang in the coming election. You must take advantage of this fact seriously as it won’t be an easy fight knowing how dirty BN can be.
They will promise the heaven and earth but you only need to focus on the simple and obvious issues at hand.
1. If BN wins Malaysians will have to pay a high price for petrol.
2. If BN wins price of all commodities will increase.
3. If BN wins they will continue to use the rakyat’s money to fund their corrupt lifestyles. No government official has been caught for corruption.
4. There has been no change in Malaysian quality of life since PM Badawi took over from Mahathir. If has gone from bad to worse.
5. Crime rate is at its highest. BN has failed to change our corrupt Police force even after conducting a Royal Inquiry.
6. Malaysian law is at its lowest ebb and judges are playing to the politicians tune. (Be doubly careful of this!)
7. Malaysian transportation system is still beset with a multitude of problems causing untold loss of Malaysian lives.
Mr Lim, this is your best chance. Make the best of it. MALAYSIAN BLOGGERS WILL SUPPORT THE FALL OF BN.
#31 by miwaki on Friday, 11 January 2008 - 12:22 am
Tsu Koon,
Please pray hard because most of your supporters have made up their minds to vote PKR,DAP and PAS.As for MCA,save your effort,praying is too late,my advise to you is,look for a job or else you will be jobless after election.For MIC,never mind,no comment.