Archive - 4 January 2008

The police claim that the organisers had refused to apply for a permit, but GMI has a different version.

The embattled ex-minister drops another bombshell as he claims that his rivals were baying for his complete destruction.

Reform movement Aliran wants the deputy premier to substantiate his claim with facts and figures.

The High Court today granted an order to a non-Muslim husband to bar Islamic authorities from giving his dead wife a Muslim funeral.

The Catholic weekly will press ahead with its lawsuit filed last month to challenge the state order banning it from using the word Allah.

breaking news MCA president Ong Ka Ting, who is housing and local government minister, has taken on an additional cabinet post, the health minister.

The villagers are enraged over the death of their headman, whom they believe was murdered.

The deputy prime minister tells Kelantan voters to ditch PAS in favour of BN if they want to see their state being turned into an Islamic civilisation centre of distinction.

Pictorial A group of disgruntled young Malaysians today handed Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi a very practical and symbolic gift today.

Should the powerful and influential former vice-president of the MCA have resigned from all his posts in the first place? Probably not.

updated 4.32pm The ISA detainee and Hindraf legal adviser is suing the government, the IGP and the attorney-general for linking him with a terrorist group.

In their religious scriptures and practices, Sikhs have used the words Allah, Rahim, iman and ibadat extensively and for hundreds of years.

It’s a case of father crab telling baby crab to walk straight. That’s how Kit Siang described Najib’s advice to government leaders to ‘behave themselves’.

Hindraf leader P Waythamoorthy claims that he was misquoted in an article which reported him saying that the movement was fighting a losing battle and would die soon.

Critics are saying that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has failed to live up to the heightened expectations - and the calls for reform have re-surfaced.

Dr Chua Soi Lek points the blame at himself for his downfall, pinning it on his vigorous career commitment.

Quit that is, because the health minister has lost the moral high ground while holding an office which required public trust of the highest degree.