Archive - 24 May 2008

Terengganu People's Solidarity Council (Mampat) are collecting signatures from locals in Terengganu supporting the call for oil royalties to be return back to the state.

As the police had yet to take action against anyone implicated in the report, PKR Youth lodged a police report in an attempt to urge them to act.

Batu Puteh decision Emotional reactions from the media and politicians may stoke an outpouring of public anger, warns a Singaporean academic.

Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar, also Santubong MP, reveals that a few PKR members approached him in Kuching several days after the federal cabinet was announced in March.

Sarawak Assistant Sports and Agriculture Minister Dublin Unting Ingkot is still in a coma following a stroke on Thursday after giving a radio interview in Kuching.

Penang Turf Club has decided to refute the allegations made against them in order to prevent confusion among club members and the public.

Batu Puteh decision The veteran opposition legislator ponders aloud on whether the Malaysian government was given proper legal advice before taking the matter to the world court.

Another road blockade had started to stop a plantation company from encroaching into NCR land, this time belonging to the Kayan community in Ulu Baram.

Pandikar Amin Mulia is told that children and the disabled are no security threat and Parliament should remain an open space for the public to air their grievances as well.

Permas criticises new Selangor state opposition leader Dr Mohd Khir Toyo for his recent ‘theatrics’ over an issue which his government failed to address when they were in power.

Unlike past parliaments, a great deal of public expectation is riding on the current crop of MPs, especially those sitting on the swollen opposition benches.

Among the programmes include capacity building to help them achieve their zero-burning target, rehabilitation of burned peat land and develop an early haze warning system, says Environment Minister Douglas Unggah Embas

He says 'extremists' among different communities had begun to voice their opposition and make unfair demands on the government, trying to 'divide rather than unite.'

This time, the PKR de facto leader made the claim in Kuching with his veep Dr Jeffrey Kitingan even revealing that the crossovers from Sabah, S'wak and Peninsular M'sia are proportionate in number.