Archive - 14 June 2009

Australia said that it will raise its A(H1N1) alert level as the number of victims hit by the pandemic continued to mount while Thailand urged calm after a sharp increase in cases.

Shah Alam PAS head Khalid Samad concedes that he made the mistake of overlooking the resolution by the division to ban Sisters in Islam, which has drawn flak from various quarters. [VIDEO INSIDE]

'If I hated someone, I would tell him to his face. I won't act like a friend and then hold an axe to his back,' thunders MIC president S Samy Vellu.

Adnan Yaakob is not surprised by Zaid's decision and calls him a 'wolf in sheep's clothing who thinks he's very smart'.

A powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Mindanao in the southern Philippines today, the US Geological Survey said.

While Gerakan vice-president Huan Cheng Guan has announced he will stay put in his party, rumours persist that he would join PKR in the near future.

Iran has rounded up at least 10 reformist leaders, a party member said, after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election in a deeply-disputed vote sparked riots across Tehran.

Malaysian authorities have arrested 17 Iraqis and seven Indonesians after detaining a boat that was trying to smuggle some of them to Australia via Indonesia.

Hindraf leader, P Uthayakumar, said all Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has to do is sign an order to acquire the land, notwithstanding whether a legal proceeding was pending in court or not.

The operation, which is illegal worldwide, has apparently been going on 'undetected' so far right under the noses of the local authorities.