Archive - 12 November 2007

Kementerian Penerangan akan menghantar surat teguran rasmi kepada stesen televisyen satelit antarabangsa, AL Jazeer kerana didakwa membuat laporan berat sebelah mengenai perhimpunan Bersih di ibunegara Sabtu lalu, kata Menterinya, Zainuddin Maidin

The absence of many Barisan Nasional MPs in Dewan Rakyat today got the opposition members fuming.

The disproportionate use of resources could have been channeled to other initiatives of crime-fighting, says its president S Ambiga.

The mammoth rally on Saturday is only the beginning, with future plans in the pipeline to get the sultans to support Bersih's cause in seeking clean and free elections.

The minister goes ballistic over the mammoth weekend rally. Apart from calling the opposition 'wimps', he also says that the 'wires in their heads are severed'.

A Kuala Lumpur native all my life, I was figuring out which was the best route to navigate my car to attend the Bersih rally at Dataran Merdeka...

The trade agreement signed last Thursday with Pakistan is Malaysia's first pact with a member of the Organistion of Islamic Countries.

Sabah and Sarawak will soon be getting their own major development master plans worth millions of ringgit to fuel growth in the two states.

The polls watchdog proposes for state subsidies for electoral campaigns to reduce candidates' dependence on business donations and to prevent the rich from purchasing influence.

Tens of thousands of people gathered in Kuala Lumpur on Nov 10 to call for a clean and fair elections. Malaysiakini provides a step-by-step account of the march.

Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang says the prime minister's cavalier response to the weekend gathering was disappointing, although not unexpected.

This is the second postponement of the scheduled meeting between Bersih committee members and the Commercial Crimes Department.

updated version 'I have left it to the police and they handled it very well and I am very happy,' says the prime minister.

The director of management at Bukit Aman would be taking over from Mohd Najib Abdul Aziz, who is retiring from the force.

Despite attempts to spook the public from participating in the Bersih rally, 40,000 people turned up on Nov 10 in the largest show of force since the reformasi protests a decade ago.

As a blind individual, I really wish that I could have contributed more such as by marching to the Agong's palace, but I was hit by the tear gas, says a Malaysiakini reader.

Berkuatkuasa esok, Pengarah Jabatan Pengurusan, Bukit Aman itu dilantik menggantikan Tan Sri Mohd Najib Abdul Aziz yang akan bersara.

How dare the PM allow the police to shoot innocent civilians with chemical agents and arrest citizens at Masjid Jamek for exercising their democratic right to peaceful assembly?

Malaysiakini compares the key news and views in major newspapers. What is today's agenda for the English, Bahasa, Tamil and Chinese papers?

It's only the beginning of a peaceful revolt against the might of the machine. Indeed the next wave will be met with even more machines from the regime.

The three-nation project will see a 'holy car' fitted with a compass to find the direction of Mecca, and a compartment to keep the Quran in.

There is no point in becoming an education hub by just offering cheap education without any quality, laments the premier as local universities drop slots in global rankings.

Organisers also said that at least seven people were beaten and kicked by police and that some needed hospital treatment including one man whose leg was broken.