Archive - 14 December 2009

The witness was not sure if Karpal Singh said he was giving his personal opinion on how the Perak Sultan could resolve the Perak crisis.

The authorities need to act immediately to stop unscrupulous syndicates from torturing and mutilating their victims to garner sympathy and solicit donations from the public.

The prime minister said that he has accepted the resignation of Deputy Tourism Minister Sulaiman Abdul Rahman Abdul Taib effective today.

‘English is not only for English people but (it is) a universal language. I am not an Englishman but I speak English,' he said.

A total of 11,770 foreigners applied for Malaysian citizenship in the last five years, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

The past has come back to haunt Anwar Ibrahim, as footage emerges of his remarks delivered at a BTN course.

The longstanding issue has been solved with the education ministry agreeing to finance the purchase of a piece of land.

PARLIAMENT Information like race and religion was needed for statistics as well as for poverty eradication programmes, says a deputy minister.

The Umno rep has been charged with eight counts of making flase claims totalling RM80,000 for constituency works.

Huan Cheng Guan now issues a 10-day ultimatum to lift his three-year ban or he joins newly-formed Parti Cinta Malaysia

The full list is being fined-tuned by party headquarters and likely to be announced within a fortnight.

One man was killed and 19 workers were injured today in an explosion at a newly built shopping centre which police said was likely caused by a gas leak.

The home ministry must undertake a detailed study on the effects of the Simpang Renggam detention camp on the inmates, especially remand prisoners.

Malaysia would have been destroyed long ago if the BTN course was racist as claimed by the opposition, said deputy minister Ahmad Maslan.

PARLIAMENT The opposition leader argues, to no avail, that debate is vital because of the potential impact on the economy.

Ong's RM500 million suit is over Tiong's statement that he had allegedly given the former RM10 million.

I have been reading and monitoring the developments in your country. It's interesting to see various parties from both sides taking potshots and defending the programme.

It is peculiar to have only course leaders from a single community to promote a supposedly 1Malaysia unity concept.

What is Malaysian democracy? Is it the 'guided democracy' of past Indonesian president Sukarno? Is it Umno-style democracy? Is it MCA faction-riddled democracy? Is it Sabah-style democracy?

Sukrano coined the term guided democracy. Do you need democracy to be guided, like teaching a toddler how to crawl or walk? If democracy is 'guided', it is not democracy!

Parliament The paid services provided by Astro were not basic communications service but rather a choice made by subscribers to have a choice of more channels.

There are not many controversial issues that are being discussed by the media and bloggers these days. A new one would be interesting, if it is found.

And an unlikely one was found in the latest column by Zaini Hassan in Utusan Malaysia which appears every week without fail.

Thirty-two local human rights activists and journalists who filed a RM35-million suit against the government will know the outcome next Tuesday.

Consumption of contaminated food and water is a cause of leptospirosis in immigration detention centres, says a Health Ministry official.

The Ipoh Barat MP says that the article, written by Awang Selamat, can incite racial hatred and cause public unrest in this country. [VIDEO INSIDE]

COMMENT It was quite a turnaround for the biggest Malay political party in the country following the disastrous results in the March 2008 general election.

UPDATED 2.55PM The announcement was made by Youth and Sports Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek today. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Most of the headlines focused on the premier’s call for feedback on six National Key Result Areas.

COMMENT The country's judiciary went electronic and adopted a stricter work system in 2009, to promise swifter justice and flow of cases, at the disgruntlement in the legal fraternity.

US President Barack Obama said that his decision to pour 30,000 more US troops into the war in Afghanistan was the most difficult of his presidency so far.

Jeffrey Kitingan is to take charge of Sabah and Sarawak while incumbent Thamrin Jaini is retained as Sabah chief.

UPDATED 3.35PM Law Jenn Dong, an engineer with PKFZ turnkey contractor Kuala Dimensi Sdn Bhd, was charged with making 24 false claims involving a total of RM116.850 million.

The campaign is a transformation programme for Umno to get closer to the people, especially at the grassroots' level.

At the conference in Copenhagen, the premier is scheduled to deliver a statement on Malaysia's position on climate change on Dec 17.

A man with a history of mental health problems attacked Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, knocking out two of his teeth and forcing him to be rushed to hospital with a blood-splattered face.

free 'I am very much poorer than many Malays, but I managed to put my children through tertiary education with my meagre income.'

He will seek to tempt money back into a stock market where foreign ownership stands lower than in 1998 financial crisis.

Malaysia will offer 'credible' cuts in its emissions of carbon dioxide at the Copenhagen climate change summit in a bid to halt global warming, said Najib.

free 'Nazri, if you are a man of your word, do not back down now. Give Karpal Singh the authority to charge Lingam and all implicated.'

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez rejected Sunday the top US diplomat's "threats" on the consequences of Latin American ties with Iran, blasting Hillary Clinton's remarks as an "imperial offensive."

Israel approved Sunday listing some Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank as zones that entitle the communities to millions of dollars of extra state funding.

At least 70 people were killed in a Saudi air raid on a Yemeni village near the border with Saudi Arabia on Sunday, Yemen's Huthi rebels alleged, declaring the attack a "massacre."

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned opposition leaders on Sunday to distance themselves from protesters he accused of acting against the Islamic regime's late founder Ayatollah Khomeini.