
Land scams: CM 'vindicated' by AG's report
Penang
The auditor-general’s report has provided information on 11 cases of land improprieties during Dr Koh Tsu Koon’s rule.







Prominent writer, journalist and playwright Kee Thuan Chye launches the latest book on the March 8 political tsunami - 'The day Malaysia woke up'.


The Umno vice-president, in Singapore for a conference, told reporters it may not be tenable for the prime minister to wait until 2010 to hand over power.


updated 8.15pm
This was announced by the Umno president Abdullah after an emergency supreme council meeting which lasted three hours.
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The human rights commission took the police to task over the way it handles the case of a 22-year-old Malaysian suspected of being an illegal immigrant.

‘I will fly to Taipei if needs be if they want to meet me,’ Anwar quips as he insists that his plan to form government on Sept 16 is on track, even with most MPs in Taiwan.











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The protestors shout ‘Hidup Melayu' (Long Live the Malays) as Umno leaders arrived at the tower block which housed the party HQ.

There may finally be a solution soon to the land issue involving the government and the native farming community living near the multi-billion-ringgit hydro dam project in central Sarawak.

updated 2.05pm
The court needs more time to catalogue and correlate documents that had gone missing earlier, and were subsequently retrieved.




The Ahmad Ismail issue continues to hog the limelight, with almost the dailies focussing on the Umno supreme council’s impending decision.


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'A few years ago, Ahmad Ismail’s inflammatory remarks would have spelt trouble but Malaysians today are wiser to the political ploys of unscrupulous politicians.'
