Archive - 6 March 2009

'He is the (future) Barisan Nasional leader and he is Samy Vellu's boss, therefore only Najib can interfere,' says P Chithirakala Vasu in seeking a meeting with the DPM.

The Selangor investment arm will be seeking advice from Bank Negara on how to deal with the property scandal involving former Selangor MB Khir Toyo.

Bar Council chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan has been selected as a winner of the International Women of Courage Award for 'championing the rule of law'.

'It's not just a science mission, it's an historical mission.'

The ISA detainee lodges a police report against the New Straits Times for publishing a story on March 3 stating that he refused treatment and medicine 18 times.

The Sarawak government commissions an Aussie firm to undertake feasibility studies on four more of the 12 hydro electricity dams planned to be built in the state.

SA Vigneswaran accuses the MIC president of committing a 'blatant breach of trust' when he allegedly awarded contracts and loans worth hundreds of millions to his cronies.

Under the 'CHILL' strategy, the government is to inject money into five important sectors: capital, housing, incentives, labour and land.

Kugan's mother lodges a police report against Serdang Hospital and the pathologist who performed the first post-mortem on her son's body. [BOTH REPORTS & VIDEO INSIDE]

Two years ago, I first crossed the Mekong River and landed in Houayxay, a small Laotian town bordering Thailand. It was during the Lunar New Year period and, to my surprise, I ended up celebrating the festive season with a small group of engineers from Guangxi province, China.

Ratings agency RAM Holdings chief economist Yeah Kim Leng said the decline in exports was the sharpest drop in eight years.

updated 5.33pm Lawyers for Perak state legal advisor V Sivakumar filed a suit at the Kuala Lumpur High Court to set aside a restraining order stopping him from conducting "unlawful assembly meetings".

One effect of the political tsunami is that the annual address of the Umno president is no longer the year’s momentous political speech.

exclusive Khairy Jamaluddin, who once espoused ultra-Malay views, denies he was being a political opportunist in changing his tune. [VIDEO INSIDE]

updated 5.50pm A senior aide to an Umno minister was detained and quizzed by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) for alleged graft involving RM70,000.

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim today filed notices of appeal against the transfer of his sodomy trial to the High Court.

Most newspapers headlined the RM10 billion stimulus package which was tabled in Parliament yesterday.

Last spring, dogged by looping video of the Rev Jeremiah Wright howling “Not ‘God bless America’, ‘God damn America’,” presidential hopeful Barack Obama cracked open the tense discussion of race in this country with his groundbreaking speech in Philadelphia. He drew on his personal history – “I am the son of a black man from Kenya and a white woman from Kansas” – and explained that his background had “seared into [his] genetic makeup” the idea that our nation is more than the sum of its parts.

Umno is accusing rival parties of disrespecting the Malay sultanate. The truth, as revealed by history, is that it was Umno that shamed the rulers.

updated 6.10pm The High Court ruled that the constitutional issue on who is the rightful MB must be decided by the apex court.

free ‘Unless the pathologist was blind and with no sense of touch, he surely could not have missed all those bruises, burn marks and cuts on A Kugan's body.'

free ‘You will prevent further anger at the judiciary and executive branch. All will hail you as the saviour of our country and its ideals when you agree to fresh polls in Perak'.