Tee Keat dropped in Cabinet reshuffle

The New Transport Minister Kong. Survive setback losing the deputy president election in MCA against current Health Minister Dr Liow.


Labis MP Chua Tee Yong, get promoted to deputy minister post in argiculture.Father is Dr Chua is President MCA keep promise of not wanting any cabinet post if winning MCA president post.Properly to shield BN from embrassing as Dr Chua involve in the sex tape scandal few years ago. However,Dr Chua son get the promotion .He is 32 years old.


Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat lost his cabinet post after losing to Dr Chua in Presidential post election in MCA.This may be the end of Ong political career in MCA.



Datuk Wira Chor Chee Heung was appointed the new Housing and Local Government Minister while Datuk Seri Kong Cho Ha replaced Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat as Transport Minister in a minor Cabinet reshuffle today.Chor replace Kong as Kong get the Transport Minister post.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced the appointments today, which are seen as a reflection of the recent MCA elections which saw Ong lose the presidency to former Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek.

Malaysian PM announces cabinet reshuffle

PM Najib of Malaysia.


Previously Najib Cabinet members.

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak announced a cabinet reshuffle on Tuesday, dropping Malaysian Transport Minister Ong Tee Keat who lost in his bid for the Malaysia Chinese Association (MCA) presidency earlier this year.

While Ong was replaced by Malaysian Housing and Local Government Minister Kong Cho Ha, the latter's vacated position was filled by Chor Chee Heung, who was Malaysian Deputy Finance Minister.

The MCA, a political party run solely by Malaysians of Chinese descent, is one of the component parties of the country's ruling coalition.

According to Najib's statement issued on Tuesday, two members of parliament (MPs) and four senators were appointed deputy ministers.

Recap : Lawyer: Bala First statutory declaration made voluntarily II -Najib denies affair with Altantuya

Lawyer Americk Singh Sidhu denied that private investigator P Balasubramaniam affirmed his first sworn statement under duress.

Speaking to reporters at the PKR headquarters in Tropicana, Petaling Jaya today, Americ said that Balasubramaniam's statutory declaration filed on July 1 2008 was made voluntarily.

 

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak today denied allegations that he had links with murdered Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu as claimed by a private detective.

Reading out from a prepared statement at a packed press conference in Parliament this evening, the embattled deputy premier reiterated that he had never met or knew Altantuya.

He dismissed the statutory declaration filed by private eye P Balasubramaniam, who was hired by Najib's close associate Abdul Razak Baginda to deal with the Altantuya problem, as "concocted" claims.