Archive - 25 April 2009

At a forum on Perak, constitutional lawyer Tommy Thomas, said the political impasse should not have to go through the courts and there should have been snap elections.

It looks like former premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will remain as Kepala Batas MP for at least another few more years until the next general election.

'Many Indians who deserted the BN in the last general election have shown renewed interest in returning to the BN.'

There is mounting pressure for the PM to take action in the wake of a damning US Senate report on human trafficking in Malaysia.

The losses in royalty revenue were attributed to under-declaration and manipulation of annual returns by quarry operators and lapses in calculation and monitoring by authorities.

She landed in the Iraqi capital around 8.30am (1pm Malaysian time), a day after two suicide attackers killed 55 Shiite pilgrims at a shrine in the city.

Raja Petra and his gang of Barisan Rakyat bloggers were not invited to dinner by 3-in-1 Minister Rais Yatim. To ask the reason why would be stupid of me.

The world economy is in severe recession and trade is deteriorating every day. Political pressures demand import restrictions to protect employment: this is what makes a depression great and this is what G20 countries are already flirting with.

The Group of 20 biggest economies met in London on Thursday in an attempt to kick-start the world economy, promising some US$250 billion for trade finance in the next two years. But this won't unleash the power of free trade unless G20 members themselves remove recent import tariffs, subsidies and hidden barriers.

A US senate committee has issued a scathing report based on first person accounts of extortion and human trafficking of refugees in Malaysia.

free 'In the case of Article 72, its intention is very clear in that the court cannot interfere with whatever transpires in a state assembly. Even a fifth former can tell Nazri this intention.'

Two female suicide bombers struck a major Shiite shrine in Baghdad amid a brutal spike of attacks nine weeks before US troops are to withdraw from Iraqi cities.

comment By apologising for having kept Guan Eng in the dark, Anwar has shown he is using a different leadership approach compared to Umno.