Archive - 24 April 2009

Manuel Lopez, formerly a journalist for almost 40 years, today announced the formation of a new political party called the Malaysian Indian Democratic Action Front (Mindraf).

updated 8.50pm Najib, in one of his decisions as new Umno leader, axed eight state party chiefs and retaining only five incumbents. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Two NGOs lodged a police report this afternoon against three commentators in Malaysia Today website for malicious remarks against the Perak sultan.

The Archbishop of Kuala Lumpur is given leave by the High Court to quash the ministry's decision prohibiting the use of the word 'Allah' in the Herald Catholic Weekly.

The ex-New Era College student was sentenced to two days in prison for punching the college senate chairperson during a convocation ceremony.

The Ipoh High Court issues an ex-parte order granting custody of three children who were forcibly converted to Islam by their father to their mother.

Despite falling from his wheelchair at the Kuantan court complex, DAP stalwart Karpal Singh still finds room for a little humour.

Anywhere, any place, anytime - that’s what the former de facto law minister Zaid Ibrahim tells information czar Rais Yatim today in response to a challenge for a debate.

The ousted menteri besar applies to have an unprecedented nine-member panel, when the apex court decides to hear Zambry Abdul Kadir's application on Tuesday.

A major union accuses the government of allowing multinational companies to recruit them at the expense of jobless locals.

updated 6.15pm Former Penang DCM Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin has reiterated his resignation as Penanti assemblyperson in a press statement today.

Four months after A Kugan was found dead in a police station, no one has been charged for the murder of the 23-year-old youth.

Malaysiakini compares the key news and views in major newspapers. What is today's agenda for the English, Bahasa, Tamil and Chinese papers?

A permanent mechanism will have to be worked out and related laws amended to ensure the implementation of the government's decision, says Dr S Subramaniam.

A former Sabah CM said he had consulted the local community and was convinced that they had no objections to the proposed statue.

The boomerang is spinning back. Having witnessed Pakatan bagging four by-elections with increased majorities since last August, BN now looks increasingly like cowards.

'(Obama) has to answer to US Congress, he has to answer to the Senate, he has to deal with newspapers and journalists,' says Zaid Ibrahim.

IT'S A CONSPIRACY, decries minister Rais Yatim, who accuses the foreign media of being part of a grand design to topple the new premier.

Contemporary reformers working with Islam and Muslim societies ask themselves: ‘Can there be an integrative approach of ‘Western legal tradition' and the Islamic legal tradition?'

Will he drop 'party-less' Larry Sng in a widely-expected cabinet reshuffle soon? The CM appears to be caught in a dilemma.

More than 50 disgruntled PKR Youth members and Hindu Rights Action Force supporters defect to MIC.

The minister treats them to dinner and calls on them to give credit where its due and not resort to slander and defamation.

Thai PM Abhisit imposed emergency rule in the capital and five surrounding provinces on April 12 after protesters disrupted an Asian summit in Pattaya.

free ‘With regards to this false police report, I urge you to sue them and also lodge a police report for wasting the police's time and for any other relevant offence.'

free ‘It is a known fact that most of the time, government officials do not care to implement changes to policies and rules announced by the PM, the DPM and the ministers.

comment When a judge is plainly wrong, especially when he claims to interpret the obvious, it is not wrong for any right thinking member of the public to criticise him.