Archive - 1 May 2009

PAS election director Mustafa Ali has refused to entertain any request from the Penang Youth wing and the Permatang Pauh division to field their own candidate for the by-election.

Instead of consolidating with Umno, PAS should aspire to win over the people who support Umno, says PAS vice-president Husam Musa.

Unionists in Penang are sceptical about the federal government's economic liberalisation initiatives to open up part of the Malaysian service sectors to foreign investments.

The SPCA wants to help the villagers to solve the problems of stray dogs, numbering in thousands, but oppose the trapping of the strays to be abandoned in an uninhabited island.

Perak assembly speaker V Sivakumar says BN has already submitted a motion to boot him out and replace him with the local MIC leader come May 7.

The MIC Youth wing will be mooting an attempt to get the government to set up a special department to undertake the affairs of the Indian community, said its advisor S Vell Paari.

The party is confident that the tension being created by Permatang Pauh PAS division in wanting to contest in Penanti will not have a big impact in the final outcome of the polling.

US health officials said the number of infections there had hit 118, while a number of other nations - including Britain, Japan, South Korea and New Zealand - reported new H1N1 cases.

The PRS chief has a piece of advice for the newly elected Batang Ai state assemblyperson Malcolm Mussen if he is to be effective as a people's representative.

comment BN also has component parties who are responding to the change of mindset amongst the electorate. In urban centres, political parties that perform well are those that champion the civic territorial state.

exclusive Mansor Othman talks to Malaysiakini on his plans for the state if elected as well as key issues in the upcoming Penanti by-election campaign.

free ‘And let there then be a landslide victory against BN to show the people's disgust with their blatant and shameless use of power to unjustly and unlawfully jail a lawfully-elected rep.'

A day after upping its pandemic alert level, the WHO said there was no evidence to suggest it should be raised to the maximum level of six.