Archive - 29 May 2009

PKFZ scandal The holding company for PKFZ's turnkey developer is crying foul over the report's contents, claiming that some portions of it were ‘highly defamatory'.

free ‘The report is damning enough of Chor's misconduct. Having a person of such lax scruples in the Finance Ministry is a threat to the country's coffers.'

MIC president S Samy Vellu says the ruling will deter Indian students from sitting for both the Tamil Language and Tamil Literature papers in the SPM examination.

PKFZ scandal An opposition leader asks whether the government should pump in another RM8.6 billion into the troubled project.

breaking news The party today named its Kelantan state chief Mustapa Mohamed to head the election machinery for the state seat by-election on July 14.

Citing dissatisfaction with party leadership, Huan Cheng Guan will be quitting in three weeks, and vows to take along Gerakan's grassroot members.

Jaya Supermarket tragedy The remains of the fourth victim has been pulled from the rubble and the state government issues a stop-work order.

With a 48-hour deadline to apologise looming, the youth wing is now planning to write to the Foreign Ministry to strip the Sri Lankan envoy of his immunity and sent back home over his 'jokers' remark.

Farmers are told to stop operating in urban areas and this has thrown a big question over the billion-ringgit industry and Malaysia's status as world's third largest producer of bird nests.

Soon after becoming prime minister, Najib dropped by a popular Indian eatery in Brickfields for teh tarik and thosai.

Most Malaysians expect former strongman Mahathir - still alert and sharp at 84 - to rise to the occasion. [VIDEO INSIDE]

updated 5.29pm From a mock funeral procession to a birthday cake, Badrul Hisham has thought about every possible way of being a pain for the PM.

PKFZ scandal The DAP politician also said that a commission of inquiry must probe the Treasury as well as previous Transport Minister Ling Liong Sik and his successor.

A UiTM student who is suing the university for negligence responds to the vice-chancellor's claim that she lived on campus illegally.

Can land for public utilities be used for commercial purposes? With authorities giving the green light, residents around the country face a new threat to their neighbourhoods. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The significance of the PKFZ scandal lies not only in the billions of ringgit of public funds involved but the failures of our regulatory agencies to do their job.

Although BN's Zambry Abdul Kadir is helming the Perak government, Lim said 'Perakians' are not acknowledging him as the legitimate MB.

The PAS leader reveals that the main reason behind his decision to contest for the number two slot was because of the incumbent Nasharuddin flirting with Umno.

Efforts to tarnish the reputation of the former CID boss is to help shore up the AG's position ahead of July's sodomy trial, said Anwar Ibrahim.

Most newspapers led with the pictorial caption of the collapse of iconic Jaya Supermarket in Petaling Jaya and the release of the PKFZ report.

Will he or will he not take seriously the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission to wipe out corruption and abuse of power in the police force?

The world will be enveloped in a heavy cloud of gloom and doom this year. Economies will sputter, governments will fall, and companies will fail. But the biggest danger of all is a sense of hopelessness. Preventing this requires resolving some large and apparently intractable problem.

A striking looking man with a guardsman’s height and bristling moustache that hints at toughness underneath, Husam, in public encounters, radiates calm.