
Karpal ambush: Witnesses to testify next week
The special committee investigating the ambush on veteran parliamentarian Karpal Singh last month met for the first time today.

The special committee investigating the ambush on veteran parliamentarian Karpal Singh last month met for the first time today.

The Ipoh High Court has ruled Perak assembly speaker V Sivakumar cannot represent himself after he was earlier barred from appointing his own lawyers.

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First Anwar prodded reporters into asking him about the controversial lunch, then he downplayed it.

Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim says the assets of the state’s executive councillors will be made public on Friday.









'What has been supported by the stimulus package are the government firms. Khazanah has got about RM1 billion for prawn farming.'
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M Muthupalaniappan claims that several MIC leaders are using underhand tactics to ensure that incumbent president S Samy Vellu retains his post uncontested.


MP'S VIEWS What has been left unanswered is how the stimulus package will create additional income and enough jobs for Malaysians to help them weather the crisis.

The massive package met with scepticism today, as analysts questioned if it will avert recession and how cleanly it will be implemented.






Any custodial death must always be considered circumspect and should invite close and meticulous scrutiny as to the possibility of foul play.
The custodial death of Kugan Ananthan therefore, is very worrying and needs full explanation and disclosure to the satisfaction of all fair-minded Malaysians. That this is one highly publicised case among many other custodial deaths (1,535 from 2003 to 2007!) must alert us to the possibility of a sustained if tacit condonement of such practices by the highest echelon of our police or even government authorities.


BN component party leaders in Sarawak are warning bloggers to not tear the Dayak community apart by harping on communal issues.




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‘Someone in the crowd must have brought along an electric iron then asked the hospital staff to allow him/her to plug it in before applying it to A Kugan's body'.
