Archive - 2 July 2008

A BN backbencher failed in his bid to suspend Gobind Singh Deo after the DAP MP, who had just served a two-day suspension, denied apologising to the House speaker.

updated 9.45pm Website editor Raja Petra Kamarudin says that recovery efforts have been more difficult than usual due to Streamyx’s poor connection.

updated 8.15pm This is a test for the police force, whose image has been tarnished by what many perceived as politically-motivated investigations over the years.

According to ACA, the same modus operandi was used in the illegal collection of donations and award of contracts

A PKR assemblyperson in Sarawak, who helped free two men from ‘unlawful detention’, says the cops should have known better.

Contrary to a report in a blog, an Umno minister and deputy minister deny that they are among the four BN MPs who will purportedly jump ship.

Former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim did not deny that he had been to the luxury condo where where his ex-aide Saiful Bukhari Azlan claimed to have been sodomised.

Some BN parliamentarians in Sabah and Sarawak are certain that their movements and phone calls are being monitored, amidst the ongoing political intrigue.

Parliament snippets This was in compensation for the government’s delay in increasing toll rates along several highways in and around the Klang Valley.

He said while Anwar Ibrahim is ‘innocent until proven guilty’, the same standard should also applied to his accuser, Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

'Every time something happens, he reports to the US,' says the home minister in response to a caution issued by Washington over the latest controversy involving the opposition stalwart.

The police have denied posting any warning notice to bloggers against spreading rumours about the sodomy allegation against Anwar Ibrahim.

The MP wants to know where the PM got his statistics from since it differs with the numbers the former has.

He has vowed to go on a nationwide tour to clear his name as he battled fresh allegations of sodomy and his first stop will be PJ on Sunday. [PHOTO GALLERY INSIDE]

PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim is keeping everyone from the government to the press on their toes, as the nation watches developments on the allegation of sodomy against him.

Despite the massive commercialisation of mass media, Palagummi Sainath the guru of rural reporting tells how experiential based reporting meets the truth more.

Over four hundred years ago in France, where Catholics and Protestants had waged wars for a generation, the ruling (and Catholic) Valois line of kings came to an end when the third of three brothers died childless.

free ‘One moment she tells people that she is not a politician and the next moment she says she has bigger things to do for the nation and the country.’

MCA Youth chief Liow Tiong Lai echoes views that the party’s poor electoral performance was due to perceptions that it has played second-fiddle to an ‘arrogant’ Umno.

free 'With the top police officer and top prosecutor standing accused, it will be a reflection on our PM's leadership as to how he goes about resolving the issue.'

updated 6.35pm 'I will fight these allegations day and night and I won't accept defeat over this evil and lies,' Anwar Ibrahim told a crowd of 10,000 in Shah Alam yesterday.

exclusive Two senior officials of a government-linked company have been implicated in a series of scams that have allegedly diverted millions of ringgit in public funds into private pockets.