Archive - 7 April 2008

The leaders of Selangor and Penang in a joint press conference said it was not right for the tourism minister to punish voters in the wake of the last month's national polls.

The time for politicking, especially after their overwhelming victory in the last general election, is over and now is the time to set down to serious work, says the deputy FT minister.

'I have written to his majesty the Sultan of Selangor asking for my immediate release so that I could better serve the constituents,' says the Kota Alam Shah assemblyperson.

Veteran party leaders such as former Kedah menteri besar Sanusi Junid and others are to embark upon a nationwide tour to sustain the momentum to force the party leader to step down.

He challenges a 'sweeping statement' made by an opposition MP that his officers are 'synonymous with corruption'.

Basing their support on the principle of morality in the Rukunegara, they also called for fair discussion of the recommendation.

updated 5.23pm The party’s deputy president Najib is urging members with evidence of saboteurs at work to write in so that appropriate action can be taken.

A community-based organisation says the move to grant land titles to long-time settlers on state land is in the right direction.

The ‘elegant silence’ is finally broken as the prime minister hits back at his growing band of critics, who want him to be accountable for Barisan Nasiona’s worst ever electoral outing.

Take control and be accountable, and you can make great choices.

Party president Ong Ka Ting and his brother Ka Chuan, also the party secretary general, come under fire for leading the party to a appalling defeat in the recent general election.

new For once, many veteran politicians were treated like diapers and Malaysian voters had the courage to throw them out.

Temple have been caught in a bind as applications to renew work permits for priests, musicians and sculptors from India have been rejected on the basis of a ‘cabinet ban’.

Many a globalisation theorist now speaks of cultural differences not merely in the language of the interdependence of the global society and in terms of the mere respect of differences, but beyond this.

Former Jelutong parliamentarian Lee Kah Choon says that he was surprised by the silence of the previous administration led by Koh Tsu Koon on the alleged land scam.

comment It would be much wiser for the Pakatan to concentrate on governing the five states which it currently controls and to show voters that it can govern at the state level effectively.