KUALA LUMPUR: The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry is doing all it can to safeguard the interest of the 18-month-old sister of Syafia Humaira Sahari -- the three-year-old recently reported to have been battered to death by her mother's lover.

THE Wanita MCA central committee (CC) today resolved to urge all the party's central committee members to quit their posts to allow for new elections to be held.

The decision was reached at the Wanita CC meeting held at Wisma MCA here at 10am on Sunday and ended six hours later.

Wanita MCA chief Datin Paduka Chew Mei Fun said the decision would be brought to the party's CC meeting on Tuesday.

THE long wait is finally over: Malaysia has a new and slightly trimmer Federal Cabinet of 28 Ministers and 40 deputies with some unexpected changes in portfolios and appointments of several new faces — with at least one exclusion — that will certainly cause Malaysians to sit up and take notice.