Archive - 26 December 2009

The driver of an express bus that crashed early today and left 10 passengers dead has admitted to falling asleep at the wheel.

The Home Ministry said this was a normal procedure and that Barry Wain's book was not exempted.

Amendments to the act should not confined to a small group, said NUJ general secretary V Anbalagan in a statement today.

Selangor PAS chief Hasan Ali will face the party’s disciplinary committee on Jan 9 while his former deputy Khalid Samad is to testify two day earlier.

101010 may be binary digits but for astronaut Dr Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor Al-Masrie they have more to do with bells ... wedding bells, that is!

The Foreign Ministry denied that ambassador Arshad Hussain was resuming his post as the country's permanent representative to UN in Vienna.

Ng Poh Ngoh, 23, one of the 10 passengers killed in the express bus tragedy near Ipoh today, was due to report for work on Jan 4.

The reward is to serve as a motivating factor for residents to go all out to rid the rodents in the one-day campaign.

The Hindu Rights Movement(Hindraf) is again caught in a mud fight, this time over the movement's funds.

UPDATED 7.02PM The probe was politically motivated and aimed at covering up the real reasons behind Teoh Beng Hock’s death, says a DAP leader.

He contends that the assassins have got their facts all wrong and challenges them to come out of hiding.

COMMENT Whether global warming is real or not, living in a more sustainable way can only benefit everyone.

The double-decker express bus skidded and hit the road divider of the North-South Expressway near Ipoh.

A Nigerian man with reported links to Al-Qaeda tried to blow up a US airliner with a new type of explosive device on Friday before being tackled by passengers.

A British newspaper today named an Iranian woman shot dead during protests against her country's disputed June elections as its "person of the year".

free 'It's absurd to believe that after rising to be a brigadier-general, he was found to be inefficient. This PRO actually believes we are fools.'

free 'Najib, why waste your time going to China trying to woo the Chinese to come here who then end up being tortured by your henchmen?'

People across Asia will pause today to remember the day five years ago when an undersea earthquake unleashed a devastating wave that killed more than 220,000 people.