State polls: It's cooked-up news, Noor Hisham says of candidacy claims


PETALING JAYA: “No news but creating news,” Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah says of a viral tweet that claimed a former Health director-general will be entering the fray in the upcoming state elections.

He had been asked if there was any truth to the claims by Twitter user @ArwahMakLampir that the former health director-general could be contesting in Selangor.

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