Archive - 13 October 2009

Khairy: Fail to change, we close shop

Khairy: Fail to change, we close shop

The Umno Youth chief stressed that reformation for Barisan Nasional parties was no longer a choice but a matter of political survival.
16y ago
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Muhyiddin: Between an abyss and a mountains dwells Umno

Muhyiddin: Between an abyss and a mountains dwells Umno

muhyiddin yasin and umno Umno AGM The Umno deputy president is certain that his party and Barisan Nasional will rise to the top once again.
16y ago
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Late night Pakatan meeting on Perak assembly agenda

Late night Pakatan meeting on Perak assembly agenda


The Perak Pakatan Rakyat assemblypersons are meeting tonight to decide on whether to attend the upcoming state budget debate.
16y ago
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Graft watchdog to hold EGM to resolve leadership crisis

Graft watchdog to hold EGM to resolve leadership crisis

Transparency International Malaysia (TI-Malaysia) will convene an extraordinary general meeting (EGM) soon to discuss problems arising from the release of its Global Corruption Report 2009.
16y ago
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Mahathir, Pak Lah to attend Umno AGM

Mahathir, Pak Lah to attend Umno AGM

Dr Mahathir Mohamad and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi - the two former Umno presidents who had a bitter falling out - have both confirmed their attendance to the Umno general assembly's opening ceremony on Thursday.
16y ago
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Poor show: S'gor - not Penang - tarnished image

Poor show: S'gor - not Penang - tarnished image

PKR president Wan Azizah says issues in Selangor, not Penang, may have ruined Pakatan's chances in Bagan Pinang.

16y ago
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Bagan Pinang: Picking up the remains

Bagan Pinang: Picking up the remains

16y ago
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Umno's gain is the nation's loss

Umno's gain is the nation's loss

16y ago
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Corrupt politicians elected: Malaysians disgraced

Corrupt politicians elected: Malaysians disgraced

16y ago
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PAS has lot of soul searching to do over Bagan Pinang

PAS has lot of soul searching to do over Bagan Pinang

16y ago
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No way Umno EGM will be like an MCA EGM

No way Umno EGM will be like an MCA EGM

16y ago
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PAS the spoiler in Pakatan Rakyat

PAS the spoiler in Pakatan Rakyat

16y ago
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'Gangs' of political parties not a workable concept

'Gangs' of political parties not a workable concept

16y ago
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Don't worship a god of hate, MCA members

Don't worship a god of hate, MCA members

16y ago
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Rosmah launches 'Sayang' squad

Rosmah launches 'Sayang' squad

Rosmah Mansor, wife of the prime minister, today launched Wanita Umno's latest project, "Sayang" (Love), the rebranded welfare, voluntary and social programmes of the movement aimed at getting closer to the people through time spent with them.
16y ago
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High Chaparral: DCM denies demanding apology

High Chaparral: DCM denies demanding apology

P Ramasamy says neither he nor the chief minister have insisted on a public apology from the 10 residents, as their representative has alleged.
16y ago
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Isa sets sight on Teluk Kemang next

Isa sets sight on Teluk Kemang next

Newly-elected Bagan Pinang assemblyman Mohd Isa Samad wants to help Barisan Nasional win back the Teluk Kemang parliamentary seat.
16y ago
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RPK: It's fair comment

RPK: It's fair comment

Fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin says that a statutory declaration he posted which implicated the PM's wife and two colonels in the Altantuya murder, is true and therefore, fair comment.
16y ago
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Healing still 'a long way off' for Umno

Healing still 'a long way off' for Umno

The party still has much to do before it regains acceptance from voters, says the Selangor Umno information chief.
16y ago
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Mahathir on victory of Isa, 'not ISA'

Mahathir on victory of Isa, 'not ISA'

NONE Mahathir, whose sarcasm appears to grow with age, offers a three-paragraph response to Isa Samad's resounding victory.

16y ago
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Gobind's 'suspension' case put off... again

Gobind's 'suspension' case put off... again

Suspended Puchong MP Gobind Singh has to wait till Oct 22 to know whether his High Court appeal against a year's suspension from parliament is successful.
16y ago
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Expect Budget 2010 to be smaller

Expect Budget 2010 to be smaller

Budget 2010, scheduled to be unveiled on Oct 23 in Parliament, is likely to be smaller, Second Finance Minister Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah said today.
16y ago
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KJ: Amendment should spur attitudinal change

KJ: Amendment should spur attitudinal change

The Umno Youth chief hopes that the amendment to the party constitution will also spur an attitudinal change.
16y ago
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Umno hopes it has reached turning point

Umno hopes it has reached turning point

Umno kicks off its annual meeting today with reforms plans that it hopes will regain public confidence a year after disastrous general elections.
16y ago
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Accord reached on a pan-Borneo body

Accord reached on a pan-Borneo body

Indigenous peoples of Sabah and Sarawak have agreed to work together on heritage issues through the 'Borneo Forum'.
16y ago
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Rais: Umno is not guilty, but its people are

Rais: Umno is not guilty, but its people are

He has characterised the book 'Umno: End of a Dream' by ex-info minister Mohamed Rahmat as portraying the true face of the ruling party.
16y ago
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The buck stops at Bagan Pinang

The buck stops at Bagan Pinang

Both BN and Pakatan Rakyat will have to address their shortcomings if they want to win over voters.
16y ago
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Obama approves 13,000 more troops to Afghanistan

Obama approves 13,000 more troops to Afghanistan

In an unannounced move, the president is dispatching an additional 13,000 US troops to Afghanistan beyond the 21,000 he announced in March.

16y ago
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Dr M: Najib should intervene in MCA crisis

Dr M: Najib should intervene in MCA crisis

Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has suggested that Prime Minister Najib Razak help the MCA resolve its leadership crisis.
16y ago
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Liow mum on 'secret' rendevous with Kong

Liow mum on 'secret' rendevous with Kong

UPDATED 3.55PM MCA vice-president Liow Tiong Lai declined to confirm or deny his alleged secret meeting with fellow vice-president Kong Cho Ha.
16y ago
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Headlines online: Oct 13, 2009

Headlines online: Oct 13, 2009

The uncertainty in the MCA and the aftermath of the Bagan Pinang by-election are the focus of the English dailies.
16y ago
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'Rural folk easier to bribe': Tian Chua gets drubbing

'Rural folk easier to bribe': Tian Chua gets drubbing

Controversial PKR strategist Tian Chua gets flak for his comment that rural people are more susceptible to bribes.
16y ago
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Unexpected 42% rise in non-Malay BN support

Unexpected 42% rise in non-Malay BN support

EXCLUSIVE UPDATED WITH CHART Umno has obtained a whopping 42 percent increase in non-Malay support in Sunday's Bagan Pinang by-election.
16y ago
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Mapa urged to create housing fund for estate workers

Mapa urged to create housing fund for estate workers

Estate workers may be able to own houses when they retire under a fund proposed by the government to the Malaysian Agricultural Producers Association.
16y ago
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Samy: We won't take victory for granted

Samy: We won't take victory for granted

MIC will not be over confident of the Indian community's support to Barisan Nasional in the Bagan Pinang by-election, says the party chief.
16y ago
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The indiscipline of corruption

The indiscipline of corruption

My late Professor Datuk Dr Mokhzani Abd Rahim and former Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administration at the University of Malaya once said publicly at a UMW Seminar hosted by the late Tan Sri Eric Chia in the early 1980s that Malays do not take a serious view about discipline.
16y ago
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Israel will not allow war crime trials over Gaza: PM

Israel will not allow war crime trials over Gaza: PM

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel would not allow its citizens to be tried for alleged war crimes over the Gaza war.

16y ago
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'MCA leaderless, idea-less and impotent'

'MCA leaderless, idea-less and impotent'

'The MCA EGM has shown that the MCA, Ong Tee Keat and Chua Soi Lek are all irrelevant and inconsequential and it also shows the voting delegates were confused and utterly ineffective.'
16y ago
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'Pakatan needs to get its act together'

'Pakatan needs to get its act together'

your say free 'Paying lip service is not good enough; more needs to be done for the poor of every race. A fair policy on race relations is urgently needed. Work your hearts out to reach the hearts of every one.'
16y ago
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