Archive - 28 February 2009

Tengku Razaleigh feels that without some kind of a unity government, the nation will still be faced with one that can do no more than hang on grimly to a deteriorating status quo.

Anwar Ibrahim asks party leaders to strengthen PKR and one important task in that direction is to weed out opportunists in the party.

Breaking her silence today, Chithirakala said that she can no longer stay silent over the claims of irregularities in awarding contracts.

The Sarawak National Party says it also has a right to propose its candidate for the coming by-election in Batang Ai.

Does PKR have the leadership caliber to usher in political change in Malaysian politics? That’s the question Anwar seeks to answer at a special party meeting today.

The new Perak government is copying Pakatan and will have 30 percent of local councillors coming from NGOs and professional bodies.

The editor resigned to make a stand. He is against news reports which invades the privacy of others, unless it is a matter of public interest.

updated 9.15pm A day after the about-turn on the toll hike, the government has today changed its mind allowing conditional use of the word ‘Allah’ in Christian publications.

The protesters demand that UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon convenes the security council urgently to stop the war that has claimed the lives of over 100,000 civilians since it erupted in 1983.

updated 9.36pm Chaos broke out at the Brickfields police station as police sprayed chemical-laced water at 300 supporters of detained Hindraf leader P Uthayakumar. [VIDEO INSIDE]

'Young girls are trafficked for prostitution not only in brothels but also in karaokes, golf clubs, resorts, condominiums, massage parlours...'

free ‘If BN thinks that deferring the proposed toll hike will guarantee them victory in the three by-elections, then just wait and see. BN is only interested in the superficial truth.'

free 'As a Malay Muslim I was ashamed to see 20 Umno Youth members ganging-up on a wheelchair-bound man. This is not right and is in fact very un-Islamic.’

free ‘Yes, these are the words I would use to describe those Umno Youth members who roughed up a helpless and wheelchair-bound Karpal Singh.’

comment Election dates have not been fixed but the towns in Sarawak are already abuzz with the question of who will be the fighting cocks in the battle for Batang Ai.

update 4.30pm with Chua's comments MCA leader Tan Chai Ho appeals to party members to help party president Ong Tee Keat and his deputy Dr Chua Soi Lek resolve their differences.

This brings the death toll from an armed mutiny staged by border guards over pay to 76.

"Let me say this as plainly as I can: by Aug 31, 2010 our combat mission in Iraq will end," he said, laying out a new war strategy at a US Marines base in North Carolina.