Archive - 25 July 2009

DAP appears to be a controversy magnet in the Selangor government but two cabinet members are claiming that this was a ploy to break the fledgling Pakatan coalition.

The party’s central committee at its meeting today resolved to maintain the three-year suspension on Huan, which was meted out by the central working committee on May 31.

A minor mix-up of dates by Malay daily Utusan Malaysia resulted in a witness in the police probe on Teoh’s death being recalled by the police for questioning.

UPDATED 9.40PM Former MIC vice-president SS Subramaniam today joined PKR, making him the most senior MIC leader to defect to the opposition.

There are concerns that an inquest may not have the “force and efficacy” of a royal commission, which has wide ranging powers.

UPDATED 6.50PM After a meeting with the embattled villagers, CM Lim said the state government had revoked the development order for the Oasis condo project. [VIDEO INSIDE]

comment Both the PM and AG have flopped miserably to justify the unjustifiable – the irrational and untenable decision to have both a royal commission and an inquest.

Lim Kit Siang wants the inquest to determine the cause of death of political aide Teoh be "held back" to allow the cabinet to widen the scope of the royal commission.

Like many readers out there, I am very skeptical about whether the true cause of political aide Teoh Beng Hock’s death will ever see the light of day.

China today launched an international Arabic-language television channel as part of an ambitious programme to promote the country's views abroad.

Yesterday was the first time in two years that former ISA detainee P Uthayakumar visited a foreign country. He will be in London for a week.

He has moved quickly to do damage control over Abdul Hadi Awang's remark and reasserted that Pakatan has the welfare all Malaysians at heart.

free ‘Again, MACC has fallen from grace. It is time the whole MACC be revamped and all its heads of department fired...,’ says a Malaysiakini reader.

Barack Obama sought to defuse the first race row of his presidency, saying he regretted having said a white policeman acted "stupidly" in arresting a black Harvard professor.