Archive - 27 May 2009

The MIUP president was angry that DAP's Sungkai rep Sivanesan had made several damaging statements about him based on things which he never said in the first place.

Predictions that newspapers will vanish to make way for the Internet are wrong as global sales inched up in 2008, the head of the World Association of Newspapers said today.

Penanti candidate Aminah has challenged the PKR Penang chief to reveal details of an 'unsavoury incident' in a Nibong Tebal hotel two years ago.

updated 7.56pm The cabinet has given the go-ahead for the controversial PKFZ audit report to be released in its entirety, said the transport minister.

free What was the sentiment behind fellow Malaysians in Sarawak who chose BN to reign and manipulate the state's rich resources and human rights to such terrible extend?

The economy shrank a worse-than-expected 6.2 percent in the first three months of 2009 and was headed for a technical recession, said Bank Negara.

updated 10.32pm MIC deputy president G Palanivel receives the backing of the chieftain to defend his post in September and eventually take over the reins.

updated 6.30pm A poll by PKR reveals that Penang CM Lim Guan Eng is more popular than Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim in Penanti.

updated 7.11pm PM Najib Abdul Razak dismisses the possibility of the exiled former communist leader returning home after living in exile for almost five decades.

Singapore's most wanted man has been detained under Internal Securty Act for a two-year term in Kamunting.

updated 7.12pm A Universiti Teknologi Mara student has sued the university for negligence over a molest case which allegedly took place in a campus hostel last November.

After a disastrous outing in the Permatang Pauh by-election, Akim president Hanafi Mamat plans to try his luck once again in the coming contest.

BN can expect the worst if it convenes a special assembly sitting to determine the status of Pakatan-appointed MB Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin.

updated 4.15pm It was a high-priced baptism of fire for the newly appointed foreign affairs minister, whose first international press conference courts a RM100 million lawsuit.

'When PKR reports incidents of bribery and corruption, even if the allegations are contained in a statutory declaration, the MACC moves like it has leg irons attached to it.'

Wildlife activists have built a treetop bridge in an orangutan sanctuary in Sabah to help the endangered apes find new mates and prevent inbreeding.

'The executive councillor bemoaned the cash deal, even though it was RM3 million because Najib did not pay him the cash in one lump sum.'

Penanti by-election Party veep Azmin referred to Aminah as 'Minah Ronggeng' and urged her to look at her own reflection in the mirror before making wild accusations.

Though descended on both sides of his family from religious scholars, the PAS deputy president aspirant inclined early towards the empirical and the analytical.

A DAP leader laments that Malaysia has become a police state, with the situation being even worse than the 1987 Operasi Lalang.

The MACC's investigations into a bribery claim made by Penanti independent candidate Aminah was the lead in the English dailies.

updated 4.22pm There is growing outcry among Malaysians over the 160 arrests made by police against peaceful demonstrators in the past three weeks.

free We see male police officers abusing the rights of women detainees such as asking them to change clothes in the lockup, in clear view of male officers. What is their intention?

'The company offered me 20,000 ringgit in cash to persuade the rest of our village to take down the blockade. I said no because I can’t sell what I don’t have.'

updated 2.58pm They came in their thousands to protest the ‘atrocities’ against the Tamils in Sri Lanka, but the envoy in KL is not impressed.

BN deputy chairperson Muhyiddin Yassin has met PPP supremo to get details on the party’s status as well as the validity of recent developments.

He faces immediate arrest and deportation by Australian immigration if it is established that he is indeed in Brisbane to escape the law in Malaysia.