Archive - 21 October 2008

parliament snippets KL mayor Abdul Hakim Borhan has gone on overseas trips amounting to RM1.3 million - all paid for by Malaysian taxpayers.

The prime minister reveals that the king has appointed Court of Appeal president Zaki Azmi as the new chief justice.

The survey indicates a large-scale loss of confidence of lawyers in the judiciary with a high perception of undue influences and corruption.

Parliament A heated exchange erupts in the House when a deputy minister accuses an opposition MP of making his debut entry into Parliament by 'buntut' (backside) Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.

Commenting on a wide range of current issues, Umno vice-president Muhyiddin Mohd Yassin says the social contract should be explained to young Malaysians to engender appreciation for it.

Sabah MP Dr Chua Soon Bui reveals a long list of records held by Sabah. Unfortunately, she says the records are not something to be proud of.

updated 6.30pm Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim has been compared to a 'second-hand car' who is trying to mint himself as a new champion for all Malaysians.

Violence is unlikely to erupt again along Thailand and Cambodia's disputed border after Southeast Asian leaders appealed for peace.

Fresh from filing a RM30 million suit against Utusan Malaysia, Seputeh MP Teresa Kok is going after the daily again, as well as two others.

Critics say the change is pointless and will only confuse tourists, who nightly flock to the crowded street in the capital's Bukit Bintang district.

Parliament Deputy Minister of Higher Education Idris Harun says the act is still relevant in preventing students from being unduly influenced by any political party.

opinion Now is the time, perhaps if not within the glare of the larger public arena, for a closed-door meeting of leaders from the various communities to deliberate on what exactly constitutes the social contract.

The Bintulu High Court has upheld a lower court’s decision to free 14 Iban of a charge of illegally occupying state land. The ruling is significant for Sarawak’s indigenous peoples.

Ever since voters gave the race-based BN coalition government its biggest ever drubbing in March the search has been on for a new political formula.

The commission has discovered that slow documentation of Filipino illegal immigrants by the Philippine embassy in Kuala Lumpur may be the problem.

updated 3.10pm Kubang Kerian MP Salahuddin Ayub's attempt to file an emergency motion to discuss the matter is rejected by the deputy speaker.

The Conference of Rulers has assured all Malaysians a rightful place under the Malaysian sun. Therefore, it is only right and proper that the Hindraf case be now referred to them because the government sees their arguments and actions as against the integrity of the nation.

They remain non-integrated with integrity. Whereas, most Malaysians see their case as that of their rights and privileges as ordinary Malaysians being unprotected under the very same constitution and the historic social contract which the rulers too are seeking to uphold.

Two Sabah PAS officials have lodged a police report against Bernard Giluk Dompok, also a federal minister, for making remarks deemed insensitive to Islam.

updated 5.05pm She quits to take responsibility for a Malaysiakini report in which a manifesto from a ‘support group’ was said to have been issued by the deputy prime minister himself.

News on the government’s measures to avert an economic crisis shared the headlines with the dismissal of a Malaysiakini report on a manifesto initially attributed to Umno deputy president Najib Abdul Razak.

free ‘The second deputy prime minister's post, if there is one, should go to East Malaysia for having won almost all their parliamentary seats and keeping BN intact'.