Archive - 27 June 2008

It will bring to a total of eight years under the ISA detention for the two Jemaah Islamiah suspects who were first held in 2002.

Gerakan is adamant that the demeanour and actions of Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has been a large influence on the shelving of the Porr and monorail projects.

The Ninth Malaysian Plan mid-term review is not expected to please everyone but various parties still think Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi could have done better.

There must be a willingness to reinvent the way MAS operates, including through mergers and acquisitions, says CEO Idris Jala.

‘The social contract issue is very dangerous to be debated as it is a sensitive issue that will lead to racial discomfort,' said Ibrahim, who is the chairperson of Kelantan People's Action Council.

A similar crackdown six years ago in Sabah had resulted in panic and confusion that even Malaysian nationals were deported along with illegal immigrants.

First 100 days Ex-Selangor MB Khir Toyo also accuses present Selangor administration of coercing students into registering as PKR party members as a pre-condition for state study allowances.

It includes Sapp’s aborted plan to move a motion of no-confidence against Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and an unprecedented boycott from the media over a parliament ruling.

This is not the first – and we are sure it won't be the last – time that he has flirted with the long arms of the law with his provocative web postings.

updated 4.15pm Managing director Syed Zainal Abidin also announced plans to fit all models with natural gas tanks from October to help motorists beat the rising cost of fuel.

The conflict is not new. This time it involves the alleged burning of an excavator belonging to a company which is clearing land for oil palm.

The 138 Bidayuh families are fighting a well-connected company from encroaching their land to quarry for stones for the nearby RM365 million Bengoh Dam.

First 100 days Pakatan Rakyat needs to face up to its election promises and not be distracted by managing partner relationship and devising means to 'buy' MPs.

Azizan’s stubbornness may be a good indicator and a warning bell for Pakatan. Can the coalition stem its desire and lust of power and focus on putting its house in order or risk its own undoing?

All the dailies highlighted the mid-term review of the 9th Malaysian Plan as tabled by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in Parliament yesterday.

updated with Koh's comments Criticisms against the Kedah government’s decision to log in water catchment areas are building from all sides.

It is high time a new discourse is forged, something that is more concrete and convincing to move the ethnic relations in this country forward.

free ‘The reasons given for shelving the monorail and Porr projects in Penang are less than convincing and will make Penangites more determined to change the federal government.’