'Focus on job creation' - MPs to Annuar after urban poverty report

Federal Territories Minister Annuar Musa needs to focus on job creation instead of coalition politics and staying in power, said Wangsa Maju MP Tan Yee Kew.

She was reacting to a grim report by the United Nations children's fund (Unicef) which revealed that unemployment rates among low-income urban households doubled in the Klang Valley from September to December last year.

Based on a survey of 500 households in Kuala Lumpur’s low-cost flats, it was found that unemployment had increased from 7 percent in September to 15 percent in December.

One in three adults in these households...