Archive - 1 March 2009

After weeks of talks that the two top MCA leaders were going all out to ‘kill' each other politically, the estranged duo today sat together to face the media.

updated 9.58pm The Perak assembly secretary Abdullah Antong Sabri said the emergency sitting called for next Tuesday was illegal but the assembly speaker's lawyer thinks otherwise.

The LTTE was fighting "tooth and nail" to defend their final stronghold of Puthukkudiriruppu, reported the Sunday Observer.

'There appeared to be one set of laws for illegal and violent Umno demonstrators, and another for those participating in peaceful assemblies.'

The leaders also signed a declaration on setting up an EU-style Asean community by 2015 that is aimed at protecting the diverse bloc of around 570 million people from future economic turmoil.

In a hard-hitting statement, the MIC president lashes out at the head of the party's education arm P Chitrakala Vasu over her remarks yesterday.

MCA 60th anniversary Can new party boss Ong Tee Keat do the impossible? Not likely, says former MCA HQ’s research and planning department head Stanley Koh.

'This is clearly an example of an excessive and unjustified use of police force on the people,' said veteran politician Lim Kit Siang.