Archive - 8 June 2009

Manohara Odelia Pinot, who escaped from her estranged husband, Kelantan prince Tengku Muhammad Fakhry, has been given a physical check-up by the Indonesian police.

Ousted speaker Sivakumar had filed an application to request the court to prevent BN's Ganesan from stopping him from carrying out his duties as the lawful state speaker.

PKR's A Thiruvenggadam alleges that the state divides Alam Flora's waste management contracts to political parties - 40 percent to PKR, 30 percent to PAS and 30 percent to DAP.

Come Thursday night, the 'kopi-o' campaign will enter round two. Bersih hopes that the Old Town White Coffee outlets chosen will not mysteriously shut down like before.

PKR leaders have expressed disappointment with a motion tabled and passed at the annual meeting of their ally yesterday.

Besides terming the attack against him as surprising, the former MIC deputy president refuses to be drawn into a slugfest with party chief S Samy Vellu over the sale of Maika Holding's cash cow.

MIC, MCC and GPI will send doctors to Sri Lanka hoping to bring some humanitarian relief to thousands of sick, homeless and stranded victims of the separatist war.

Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin is urging his party and PAS to find ways to work together, even if this does not lead to a unity government being formed.

analysis If there was one message that stood out in the 55th muktamar, particularly in the opening speech by party leader Hadi Awang, it was that PAS wants national power.

More oil and gas fields must be developed to help ease energy industry volatility in the longer term.

Leaders from two Indian-based parties said that while they welcomed any talks between Umno and PAS, they also wanted assurances that the interests of the minorities would not be disregarded.

Thanks to appeals from the timber and oil palm sectors, undocumented foreign workers in Sabah have seen out yet another amnesty deadline without leaving the state.

After an unexpected change of heart, former MIC vice-president M Muthupalaniappan decides to bury the hatchet with S Samy Vellu to help strengthen the party.

Both were detained by NK border guards along the border with China while researching a story about refugees fleeing the hardline communist state.

Proposals to review the ISA had in fact been made by past Prime Ministers, such as Dr Mahathir and Abdullah Badawi, with a view to amending the draconian legislation on detention without trial, but no positive results came about.

comment The issues at stake are of huge importance. The matter must be assessed not from a party political point of view, but as a matter of broader public interest.

For the first time in two decades, moderates outnumber clerics on a powerful committee in the main Islamic opposition party, a move analysts say will help it win non-Muslim votes.

updated 6.54 with PKR president's comment s PAS leaders owe a thorough explanation to Pakatan Rakyat top leadership on the party's unity talks with Umno, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said today.

With that and coupled with Mansor's timely arrival, PKR believes it can finally put its house in order and take on DAP.

Is Pakatan Rakyat locked in a power struggle? While one newspaper highlighted the claim, the other headlines were a mixed bag of topics.

One can make a stronger argument that Pakatan Rakyat is on the rise only if it manages to make electoral gains in BN strongholds of Pahang, Malacca and Johor.

The bodies were to be taken by ship to Brazil's Atlantic archipelago of Fernando de Noronha from where they would be flown to Recife for identification.