Archive - 21 September 2008

Second Finance Minister Nor Mohamed says that his new boss will decide but Consumer Affairs Minister Shahrir says it will be a cabinet decision. Either way, a decision is expected this week.

‘The government should not hold them any longer as it will prolong the Indian community's ill-feelings towards the government,' said MIC president Samy Vellu.

Gerakan, a firm opponent of the preventive law, wants a parliamentary select committee to see if the Act should be amended, repealed or retained.

'I am hoping that they will charge me. Then I can ask the prime minister to be a witness because it was his statement, saying that what I did was evil and malicious'.

The carrier's CEO says that they were still very optimistic and were on track with plans to fly to Japan next year, but it was subject to so many things being fulfilled.

Mahathir, a former finance minister, argued that a peg would be able to lessen the effect of the global slowdown on the ringgit.

Last week Abdullah faced an unprecedented challenge from within his cabinet, as four ministers spoke out against him at the Umno supreme council meeting.