Blue wave sweeps over Batu Sapi and Galas

FULL REPORT KUALA LUMPUR: Barisan Nasional has scored a double victory in the Batu Sapi and Galas by-elections, giving Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's administration a resounding stamp of approval and sending the Anwar Ibrahim-led opposition back to the drawing board.

For the Batu Sapi parliamentary seat in Sabah, BN candidate Linda Tsen won with a landslide victory, chalking up a margin of 6,359 votes over her nearest rival, PKR's Ansari Andullah.

Her majority was even greater than her late husband Edmund Chong's in 2008 when he got 3,708-vote majority. The latter's death in a traffic accident had paved the way for the by-election.

Tsen garnered 9,773 votes while Ansari got 3,414. The other contender in the three-way tussle, SAPP president Yong Teck Lee came in a disappointing third with 2,031 votes despite initial projections that the former chief minister would win the seat.

BN wins both Batu Sapi, Galas

Polling: 8am to 5pm
Vote count: 5pm onwards
Results: By 8pm
Photo galleries: Batu Sapi l Galas

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7.50pm: Unofficial results (Batu Sapi)

Linda Tsen (BN-PBS) - 8,538
Yong Teck Lee (SAPP) - 2,007
Ansari Abdullah (PKR) - 3,281
Majority - 5,257

Quick analysis: The result of this by-election reflect that of the 2008 general election. In 2008, Tsen's late husband Edmund Chong bagged 9,479 votes against his opponent, Independent Chong Kwong Ming's 5,771. In this by-election, the combined opposition has 5,288 votes.

7.43pm: Unofficial results (Batu Sapi)

Linda Tsen (BN-PBS) - 5,084
Yong Teck Lee (SAPP) - 1,250
Ansari Abdullah (PKR) - 2,022
Majority - 3,062

BN poised for double victory

By FMT Staff
FMT ALERT KUALA LUMPUR: Reports from the ground and votes tallied from polling streams indicate that Barisan Nasional is poised to win both by-elections, giving Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak's administration a boost and sending the Anwar Ibrahim-led opposition back to the drawing board.

Linda Tsen, the BN candidate for the Batu Sapi parliamentary by-election, is said to have secured a commandable lead of nearly 3,000 votes over SAPP president Dr Yong Teck Lee and PKR's Ansari Abdullah.

Unofficial figures hand victory to Tsen with a 3,300-vote majority, just falling short of the 3,708-majority gained by her late husband in 2008.

Mother demands probe over non-halal food caning at school

(Malaysian Mirror) Kuching - A 10-year-old boy from a mission school here was allegedly caned 10 times for bringing non-halal food to school.
Basil anak Beginda was asked to see the school's assistant principal, Iskandar bin Fadeli, and subsequently reprimanded for bringing 'fried rice cooked with pork sausages' to St. Thomas Primary School, one of Malaysia's historical school, on Oct 15.

It was alleged that the boy was caned 10 times on his palm.

The incident sparked off a wave of anger among the PKR women who held a press conference on Wednesday to condemn the act.

They had called for the Education Ministry to investigate the matter and take action against Iskandar.

Fed-up Yen Yen 'avoids' Parliament, escapes media

Yen Yen - too much 'fire' of late

Malaysia Chronicle

Whether she was aware of it or not, Tourism Minister Ng Yen Yen was the centre of attention in Parliament, but again for the wrong reasons.

This time, her frustrated colleagues demanded to know why she was absent from the sitting where they had lined up a barrage of questions for her to answer.

“Where is the Tourism minister or, more accurately. the 'tourist minister'?” asked a Pakatan Rakyat MP when her deputy James Dawos Mamit took the floor to answer on her behalf points raised against their ministry.

Mamit's appearance prompted a round of jeers from parliamentarians, forcing deputy Speaker Ronald Kiandee to intervene.