Archive - 24 December 2009

A night out with friends for the MBA student from China resulted in her being detained by the police. [VIDEO INSIDE]

He brushed aside a statement from EC yesterday that the party had failed to register new voters in Penang and Selangor in October.

The Court of Appeal's written judgment which was made available today gives the reasons in over-turning the High Court decision.

Total devotion to all round education had been the hallmark of this particular band of brotherhood.

... and his favourite whipping boy Abdullah Ahmad Badawi also gets a couple of lashes for his 'empty corridors' in Mahathir's latest blog posting.

Deputy Education Minister Wee Ka Siong denies any links with the embattled PKFZ project, as alleged in several Internet articles.

UPDATED 5.20PM The amendments could not be tabled at the recently concluded parliamentary sitting due to time constraint.

The DAP stalwart has challenged Mahathir to initiate legal action against him over the 'RM100 billion burned' book issue.

Sparks fly at the discussion on the national civics courses dissected by speakers and participants from different races.

The new guideline will take into account the inputs of industry players, academicians, youths and experienced administrators.

A police report had been lodged yesterday fitting the description of a 12-year-old girl whose body was found floating in a flood mitigation pond on Tuesday.

Senior Malaysian officials are floating the idea to twin Chennai and Kuala Lumpur as sister cities to bolster the existing deep-rooted bilateral ties between Malaysia and India.

SPECIAL REPORT The information age has deprived them of face-to-face interpersonal skills as well as how to cope with tidal emotions.

A former chief justice is implicated in an anonymous letter which alleged that he played a role in influencing the decision at the High Court stage.

COMMENT All of a sudden, a senate appointment in MIC is triggering a controversy among party leaders.

Malaysia has watered down an unpopular property gains tax, saying the 5.0 percent levy will only be imposed on properties sold within five years of purchase, reports said Thursday.

BN backbenchers have been instructed to prioritise their attendance to the Dewan Rakyat meetings following the close call during the Budget Bill debate on Dec 14.

Two missing US-made fighter jet engines, worth RM100 million and stolen from a military airbase, have been traced to Argentina.

Conviction in Malaysian minds deepens that the country is manured in graft with the latest mystery of the missing RMAF jet engines.

Do we have to go through the next 50 years of this kind of political circus, with BN Cola and PR Cola giving us renditions of the same neoliberal policies?

UPDATED 3.30PM Meanwhile investigation papers on the two missing jet engines have been returned to the police for a more thorough probe.

Seems like it was just yesterday we sang Christmas carols. As we grow older the days and years seem to get shorter. Been there. Done that.

Rescuers were searching Manila Bay for 37 people who went missing when two boats collided and sank in darkness on Thursday, a Philippine coastguard spokesman.

free 'Abruptly brushing off a journalist's question will not make the problem disappear...'.

free 'Never be threatened by this old war horse. George Soros had put it correctly during the crisis of 1998 - Mahathir, ‘you are a menace to your country'.'

The UN Security Council slapped an arms embargo on Eritrea and targeted sanctions on its leaders for aiding Somali rebels and refusing to withdraw troops from its disputed border with Djibouti.

A pre-Christmas attack on a church killed two people in the Iraqi city of Mosul while a Sunni Arab candidate died in a bombing in Fallujah, the first such murder ahead of March polls.

A second Irish bishop said he had offered his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI over a clerical child sex abuse scandal in Ireland. "I have today offered my resignation," James Moriarty said.

A Dutch teen sailor locked in a battle with the state over a plan to sail solo around the world travelled to the Caribbean to buy a boat and set off on a voyage, her lawyer told a court.