Archive - 7 March 2009

Health Ministry director-general Mohd Ismail Merican said the step was being taken to ensure impartiality following various allegations.

As thousands protest across town, the prime minister wants the education minister to quickly resolve the issue and avoid it from blowing up.

Anwar Ibrahim will need his political astuteness in selecting the party’s candidate for the Bukit Selambau by-election as lobbying for the seat intensifies.

March 8 anniversary BN is structurally incapable of introducing reform in ways that can win back a significant proportion of the vote it lost in March 2008.

March 8 anniversary Happily for the rookie chief minister of Penang, his government has done reasonably well but as always, the people expect more.

Meanwhile, local Hindraf leaders, members and supporters will hold a special prayer session in Hindu temples across the country on Sunday night.

The BN is running the risk of losing the Bukit Selambau by-election if it allows MIC to continue to be in the control of its unpopular long-term president, says a former strongman of Samy Vellu.

updated 5.25pm Police came down hard on 8,000 people taking part in a protest march from Masjid Negara to Istana Negara. [VIDEO & PHOTOS INSIDE]

free ‘The people who went to the mortuary were A Kugan's family members and friends. They certainly would not have tampered with the lifeless body of their loved one.'

free ‘The most disheartening fact is that the political crisis occurred in a state where the ruler is one of the most beloved and respected sultans.'

The move was taken following the advice of the commission's advisory board, which is chaired by former chief justice Abdul Hamid Mohamed.

Ex-Sapp deputy president Raymond Tan, who is now partyless, has claimed that eight Sapp branches in Karambunai would be joining his group.

A forum has concluded that all water assets in Selangor should be returned to the state based on the reasonable offers it has made.

comment What we need is a healthy two-alliance system more or less balanced for alternative government to be formed once every so often.

exclusive In this final of a five-part series, Khairy also argued that his defence of the Perak sultan did not contradict Umno's all-out attack against the sultans in 1993.

At a Kuching police dinner function, attended by senior officers, members of the media saw turtle eggs being served among other delicacies.

exclusive Sarawak PKR's Nicholas Bawin says he feels sorry for his own community which is lagging behind because Dayak leaders have failed them. [ VIDEO INSIDE ]

Zimbabwe's new Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai was hospitalised Friday after a car crash that killed his wife, just three weeks after taking office in a unity government.