Calling Muhyiddin's bluff: Shahrizat vs Raja Nong Chik

Deputy Prime Minister Muhiyuddin Yassin's call to Barisan Nasional to go all out in Lembah Pantai and make sure they win the parliamentary seat is a tall order. And for Raja Nong Chik, the ambitious Lembah Pantai division chief, to bypass former incumbent Sharizat Jalil and fulfil the DPM's wishes will be a even greater task.

Have we not heard the phrase 'Hell has no wrath like a woman scorned'. If true, then scorned indeed will be Shahrizat, the Bollywood-like Queen Bee, and Raja Nong Chik will be the first one likely to receive her sting.

There is speculation Shahrizat may support current incumbent Nurul Izzah to exact revenge on Raja Nong Chik for allegedly hijacking the seat and destroying her political career, although you can be sure if it is true, she will do it quietly and with great inner satisfaction.

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At 86, Mahathir is still calling the shots in Umno

Back in 2008, Najib Razak and Muhyiddin Yassin were only too happy and willing to help Mahathir Mohamad bring down the then prime minister Abdullah Badawi. Mahathir had made many attempts but could not hammer it through because Badawi had been smart enough to get a mandate of his own from the people, something that his successor Najib has failed to do and which is costing him now.

In 2004, Badawi who was Mahathir's anointed successor took the BN to a landlisde victory, a record 95 per cent rout that immediately sparked a jealous reaction from his former boss that too huge a dominance in Parliament was not good for the country. But Mahathir needn't have worried because in 2008, Badawi crashed. He took the BN to its worst-ever electoral performance, even losing the coalition's long-held two-thirds majority in Parliament.

Penawar denies calling for Najib to step down

KUALA LUMPUR -  Penawar, which groups former Umno elected representatives, has denied reports that it wants Datuk Seri Najib Razak to step down as prime minister.

Its president Tan Sri Abd Aziz Shamsuddin told reporters today that the body formed in December 2009, “did not and has never” called for Najib to step down.

Girl abused daily for not calling mother 'mom'

A five-year-old girl, who was constantly abused by her mother, spent International Children's Day in a hospital in China.

She was sent to the Changshu Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital in Suzhou province last Thursday, after a neighbour informed the police.

The girl appeared motionless with blood all over her body.

Doctors said seven of her rib bones were fractured. The girl also had many lacerated wounds and scars all over her body.

Besides, doctors also believe that many other bones in her body had fractured before due to their abnormal shapes.

"She was also found to be suffering from malnutrition," said Dr Ni Daolei, adding that her condition was stable now.

What was most shocking was the identity of the person who had caused the injuries and the reason for the abuse.

Since Linlin was eight months old, she had been living with her grandmother because her working parents had no time to take care of her.

She has a nine-year-old sister and a brother, three.

Linlin returned to her parents' home in April last year, but she did not acknowledge her mother as 'mummy' since it was her granny who took care of her from the time she was a baby.

She refused to call her mother 'mummy' and this annoyed Wang Changxiu, who started beating the girl.

"She beat me everyday, with her hands, legs, sticks, hangers, bricks…," Linlin told reporters at her hospital bed on Wednesday.

But suddenly, the girl went quiet. Her expression turned scared as she gazed at the entrance of the intensive care unit.

Wang, who is seven months' pregnant, walked in around 2.30pm.

"She ignored me, refused to call me 'mother'. She doesn't love me. See, I have never beaten her sister and brother," the 41-year-old Wang said.

Asked about the injuries, she answered bluntly: "They were certainly inflicted by me, I don't care."

Wang punched her daughter and fractured her rib bones. She also cut her with a pair of scissors and hit her hands with bricks.

A neighbour, surnamed Zhu who lodged the police report said the girl was beaten daily.

"There was one time I saw the mother kicking Linlin until the girl landed outside the house.

"She crawled slowly to the door, then her mother stepped on her body several times. But Linlin dared not cry," he said, added the girl was given two meals a day.

"She ate a little bit in the morning, had no lunch and then ate the leftovers from the family at night," another neighbour said.

Wang was arrested but was given bail later.

A lawyer told the media that Wang has immunity because she is pregnant.

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