Archive - 23 November 2009

Vice-president Liow Tiong Lay says they are looking for a new date but chief requisitionist Wong Nai Chee says his group has not made any decision to call off the EGM.

Parliament He says a report on the minister’s alleged comments was to ‘ruin the dignity of the government’ and that husband-wife teams on plantations could earn an amount above the poverty line.

Hassan is accused of pre-planning his defection for a long time given that strong rumours were spreading of him having secret talks with PKR leaders.

Hishammuddin reveals that the construction cost of a new prison in Labuan is RM32.9 million and not RM79 million as stated before.

Jerlun MP Mukhriz Mahathir will accept candidacy for the Kota Siputeh state seat if a by-election is held.

His lawyer R Sivarasa argues that since there is no proof of penetration, the case should be quashed. [VIDEO INSIDE]

They accuse logging company of reneging on a promise to provide them timber for longhouses.

Wanita MCA secretary-general Senator Heng Seai Kie said she was unaware of a move to bring down its chief Chew Mei Fun.

She was already a Muslim before she was placed in the welfare home, says welfare department head Meme Zainal Rashid.

The Human Rights Party wants Lim Guan Eng's state government to rebuild the fire-ravaged homes of two odd-job workers.

Bar Council chairperson Ragunath Kesavan said the throwing of the Molotov cocktails were a calculated act to intimidate and harass Manjeet to cease acting in the interest of his client.

The DAP accuses the premier of not keeping his pledge to call an open tender for the government project.

Malaysia sees the Sri Lanka crisis as an internal problem in line with the country's foreign policy, Deputy Foreign Minister A Kohilan Pillay told the Dewan Rakyat.

There are conflicting claims on which authority should actually probe allegations over the native certificate held by Jimmy Wong.

Lim Guan Eng reiterated that he did not mislead the state assembly when he said there had been no conversion of land status in the state from April 2008 till June 2009.

UPDATED 6PM This means that the EC will have to issue a writ by Wednesday and call a by-election in the next 60 days, unless it succeeds in its appeal. [VIDEO INSIDE]

They moved in to stop the event when he arrived, claiming that their action was prompted by an Umno Youth complaint.

They had fled their war-ravaged country and landed on Malaysian shores in the hope of securing a better life. But it has been anything but a bed of roses for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees here.

UPDATED 5.35PM The PAS leader said he had not been able to attend state functions as he was undergoing treatment for a back pain at a hospital in Kota Baharu and was forced to take leave.

SK Long Lamei was picked for the study looking at the high dropout and absentee rates. In fact no students recorded full passes for last year's Ujian Pencapaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR).

The British tabloid Daily Mail has reported that Wong was returned to Malaysia without Malaysian police or the government's knowledge.

UPDATED 4.20PM Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has given himself one week to resolve the problems in MCA.

The meteorological department has also warned that heavy rains and strong wind are expected to occur until the second day of Aidiladha.

UPDATED 6.30PM PAS deputy president Nasharuddin Mat Isa was rushed to the National Heart Institute (IJN) from Parliament after he complained of chest pains.

Constitutional law expert Abdul Aziz Bari argues for a two-party system, saying it would keep the federal government in check.

The former premier says democracy is the best system for politics ever invented by man but...

Parents are reminded that they have nothing to fear about the influenza A (H1N1) when sending their children for the national service training programme next year.

Worsening floods and plans to emulate Chinese schools in the teaching of Mathematics and Science are key stories in today's newspapers.

Party president S Samy Vellu directs all MIC branches to conduct another round of voter verification and registration exercise.

Hopes of finding more survivors from a huge coal mine blast in China took a blow Monday with the recovery of 12 bodies, raising the death toll to 104 in the nation's worst mining disaster in two years.

He is scheduled to attend gatherings with American investors and financiers before heading to the Caribbean nation to attend the CHOGM meeting.

MAD's not short of entertainment with performances that will include song, dance, percussions and standup comedy.

Thousands of Mexicans rallied to show support for "shadow president" Manuel Lopez Obrador -- who believes his country's top job was stolen from him in 2006 -- at the mid-point of his would-be presidential term.

Special report The Penans are waging a battle on two fronts simultaneously - to protect their jungle from loggers and to get the authorities to provide them with the most basic of necessities.

'This gruesome threesome (Liow, Chew and Wee) has flushed every shred of dignity left to the pathetic MCA has down the political toilet.'

free 'Some are not fair by accusing him of spinning his story just for monetary rewards. On the contrary he has plenty to lose. Waiting for him will be jail terms for making a false statutory declaration.'

Romania's incumbent president and his Social-Democrat rival will face a run-off after Sunday's first round election, exit polls showed, as the country aims to recover from a political crisis and a deep recession.

Iran's envoy to the UN atomic watchdog said on Sunday that Tehran wants a guaranteed supply of fuel for a research reactor as a military chief warned that any attack on its nuclear sites would be crushed.

A Spanish trawler captain released by Somali pirates said he is haunted by his failure to save a 12-year-old Ukrainian girl held captive for more than six months, a newspaper reported Sunday.