RM690 million to maintain PM’s private jet, PKR reveals

(March 31): Putrajaya will spend some RM690 million to maintain a newly-acquired private jet used by the prime minister for the next 15 years, PKR's Rafizi Ramli revealed today.

He said that the cost including services to maintain an older private jet for the next seven years, the total costs for operation, maintenance and management (OMM) of both aircraft would come to a whopping RM1.098 billion.

RM690 million in net revenue from GST expected

KUALA LUMPUR: Citi Research, a division of Citigroup Global Markets Inc, expects RM690 million in net revenue from the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in 2015.

It said the forecast was based on GST gross revenue of RM23.3 billion, revenue losses from the sales and services tax (SST) abolishment (RM13.8 billion), revenue losses from the expanded list of exempted goods (RM3.8 billion), and expanded assistance programmes (RM4.9 billion).

DAP Sarawak keluar Pakatan Rakyat Sarawak Read more at: http://www.astroawani.com/berita-politik/dap-sarawak-keluar-pakatan-rakyat-sarawak-56356?cp

KUCHING, 27 Mac (Bernama) -- DAP Sarawak hari ini mengumumkan keluar daripada pakatan pembangkang Pakatan Rakyat (PR) di negeri ini berkuat kuasa serta merta.

NRD Playing Politics and Gambling With Sabahans’ Future - Dr. Jeffrey

Kota Kinabalu: “The National Registration Department (NRD) has no business deciding that the re-introduction of a Sabah IC would not be implemented. That right belongs to the Sabah government and with the numerous calls for the Sabah IC to be implemented and now receiving support from some of the Sabah BN components” said Datuk Dr. Jeffrey Kitingan, STAR Sabah Chief responding on the report that the NRD was not in favour of issuing a Sabah IC but recalling and re-issuing ICs issued for Sabahans.

Four Borneo activists charged with sedition

TUARAN: Four Borneo rights activists have been charged in the Sessions Court following their distribution of leaflets generated by the Sabah Sarawak Union (UK), headed by Doris Jones, 46, who also runs the Sabah Sarawak Keluar Malaysia (SSKM) Facebook Page.