Archive - 3 September 2009

On certain occasions, information were not conveyed to the board despite written requests for them.

Pakatan’s action of holding a Perak assembly ‘sitting’ yesterday has given the public another opportunity to appraise their conduct.

District police chief says that outsiders have instigated the villagers to react violently and in the process causing injuries to two policemen.

The opposition has called for an urgent independent investigation into Sarawak's crippled flying doctor service (FDS) and medical emergency evacuation (Medevac).

Appellate and Special Powers division to decide whether the opposition leader's leave to bar seven prosecutors will be allowed.

Indonesia should desist from accusing Malaysia of 'stealing its heritage' and end the controversy surrounding the Discovery Channel trailer, says Umno youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin.

The police expect to wrap up their probe into the controversial cow-head protest and resubmit the investigation papers to Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail within the next 48 hours.

UPDATED 7.25PM Contrary to claims that both parties had met over the ‘cow head' issue the Hindu umbrella body insists that no such thing happened.

NGO's urge urgent action over the latest cases in a series of death and illness plaguing illegal immigrants at detention centres.

Hindu Rights Party's P Uthayakumar blames the BN component party and the state DAP for today's violence and demolition.

Opposition MP and NGOs have lodged a police report against Hishammuddin, demanding that he be either sacked or he resign.

Four villages are affected as the Segaliud river in Sandakan is claimed to be polluted by toxic effluent from nearby palm oil mills.

Aggressive tailgating and not using indicators are the most annoying habits of Malaysian drivers, says an online poll.

He said that party members and leaders from the state would not be tempted to defect to the opposition.

The BN-controlled Rights and Privileges Committee is to look into 'offences' by ousted speaker V Sivakumar during the 'hotel sitting' yesterday.

The government has granted Musa Hassan his second extension which will expire on Sept 12, 2010.

The court would hear initial arguments from Suu Kyi's lawyers on Friday before deciding whether to officially consider the appeal.

UPDATED 6.44PM The victim died on Sept 1 and was the first fatality not to come from the high risk group.

His call for the EGM was to prevent a split in the party, he said, while hitting out at a campaign by his sacked deputy for another EGM.

Divisional leaders clash over missing funds and the issue of quit rent payment for land which was switched from one constituency to another.

The Home Ministry said that the new terms were agreed by senior Malaysian and Indonesian officials who met in August.

UPDATED 4.57PM The MCA boss said that he refused to have a lawyer present.

The Ong-Chua fight has all the elements of an unfolding drama much more exciting to watch than soap opera on TV.

Police and rescue workers could be seen scrambling over banks of earth to carry body bags away from the rubble.

The Scorpene submarine, with 32 officers and crew members on board led by commanding officer Zulhelmey Ithnain, reached the jetty at 9.20am.

Keshvinder Singh, who was in a fracas at the Perak state assembly, now understands what police brutality is about.

COMMENT If some newspapers are to be believed, we are in the midst of ethnic warfare. The sentiments are so strong that some Malaysians have taken to demonstrating with the severed head of a cow.

Elegant Advisory has replaced the party's former treasurer Abdul Azim with another person as a defendant in the RM218 million suit.

Can all of BN's horses and all of BN's men make Humpty-Dumpty Selangor fall under their whims and wild fantasies?

UPDATED 7.15PM Under the watchful eyes of the police and the residents committee, four houses in Kampung Buah Pala were demolished by the developer. [VIDEOS INSIDE]

The MCA crisis and Pakatan's attempt to hold an assembly dominate today's newspapers.

It will be an evening of songs and silent prayers to repair Hindu-Muslim relations in the wake of the cow head incident

ANALYSIS The ball is Chua's camp now that MCA president Ong Tee Keat has preempted his sacked deputy's attempt to call for an EGM.

INTERVIEW Researcher Stanley Koh says that the party is being plunged into its past as the Ong/Chua crisis moves towards an EGM.

International students are claiming the private college has lost their passports and has not taken any steps to replace them. The college however denies all allegations.

US said it welcomed a more 'independent' role for Japan but stood firm that it would not back some of the new centre-left leadership's ideas on security.

Another death in Immigration custody, this time from an unidentified disease which also infected six others.

He said the MACC had contacted him a couple of times to facilitate investigations into the PKFZ scandal.

free 'Money can buy anything nowadays. So do we blame Pakatan or the Trojan horses who have set the trends for the last 52 years?'

free 'Stop deceiving the rakyat by using the words 'people's choice, majority' because in Perak, the majority ask for fresh election.'