Archive - 15 January 2009

Mat Razali Kassim, the returning officer for the Kuala Terengganu by-election, has stepped down following complaints that he has campaigned for Barisan Nasional.

Tengku Razaleigh stands nearer to 0.5 percent, saying one or two per cent might be accurate and that it could be the right estimate, but it could also get worse.

Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri who took the witness stand told the High Court that he was with two women, his fiancee and girlfriend, when the alleged murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu took place.

The influential think-tank slashed its 2009 economic growth forecast to 1.3 percent and called for a second economic stimulus package to stave off recession.

Bangladesh has recalled its ambassador to Malaysia allegedly to face charges over the 1975 assassination of the country's founder Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

Anwar accused Umno of buying votes for RM300-RM400 from Malays, whose support the party can no longer take for granted after the shock general election results.

updated 7.25pm The seven were charged in connection with the case of a 27-year-old man and 18-year-old teenager being allegedly scalded with hot water at the Brickfields police district headquarters.

In its defence, the state government says the Pahang businessman has no 'locus standi' to challenge its right to erect multi-lingual signboards because he is not a Penang resident.

UPM is again accused of implementing poll regulations that go against the students' right to a fair campus elections.

And we must meet this challenge with a historic sense of purpose - a set of public investment projects guided by a vision, designed around a strategy and governed with bullet-proof integrity, says Tengku Razaleigh. [VIDEO INSIDE]

It wouldn't be an election campaign without Ezam Mohd Noor dishing the 'dirt' on Anwar Ibrahim. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The murder accused took the witness stand and told the Shah Alam High Court on how he knew Abdul Razak Baginda and the threats the political analysts had received from Altantuya.

The Hindraf chief says that a debate was the only way out as the Umno-led government was continuously putting a lid on the truth without addressing the real issue.

comment This device of using the mobile phone to monitor voter's actual vote violates the secrecy of the vote, and is obviously against the election laws.

The Penang government has passed an eight-point resolution calling on the United Nations to invoke relevant preceding resolutions to immediately stop Israel's military aggression in Gaza Strip.

Chong Kah Kiat confirms that he resigned as the minister of tourism, culture and environment in April 2007 over the aborted Mazu (Goddess of the Sea) project in Kudat.

In the US, 100,000 patients a year have gone on dialysis for the past six years, and are in the process of dying truncated, miserable lives. This despite a cure.

An opinion poll on the KT by-election indicates that a large number of key voters in the east coast state are only “somewhat satisfied” with the performance of first-term Terengganu MB Ahmad Said.

The Labu LCCT will cost five times less to build than the KLIA in Sepang although both airports will have similar passenger capacities.

After a three-month silence following the Sept 16 dud, the opposition leader once again raises the possibility of defections and forming government.

The news about the United Nations holding a special session today on the Gaza war was the main headline in almost all dailies.

analysis Umno’s top brass politicians have been desperately pushing their KT campaign with catchy words like “fairness” and “equality”. But will the voters see through the hypocrisy?

Both Barisan Nasional parties have gone all out in a last ditch effort to attack PAS and its candidate Abdul Wahid Endut.

Diplomats also said that Hamas has accepted an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire, although the Islamists merely indicated support for its 'broad outlines'.

In a testimony to journalism, slain editor Lasantha Wikramatunga speaks from the grave.

The key to victory - it seems that the person who is most friendly and approachable is likely to clinch the tightly-fought contest.

The Moro Islamic Liberation Front leadership however welcomed the sending of a new team of negotiators to Malaysia next week as a positive step.

The US Senate is investigating allegations that officials in Malaysia were extorting money from foreign migrants and were linked to human trafficking.