Archive - 2 January 2010

Parti Cinta Malaysia, registered about six month ago, has set an ambitious 30-seat target in the upcoming polls in Sarawak.

The High Court's decision allowing a Catholic weekly publication to use the term ‘Allah’ must be governed by strict conditions, said former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Ho Yip Kap, the independent state assemblyman for Tanah Rata in Pahang has officially joined Gerakan, a BN component party.

A spanner in the works at the Teoh inquest is a possibility as the Thai pathologist could withdraw after police report lodged against her.

Controversial Federal Court judge S Augustine Paul passed away today at 3.15pm at Selayang Hospital. He was 65.

Minister in PM's Dept Jamil Khir Baharom appeals to Muslims to be calm and allow the matter to be resolved through the legal process.

It really does not matter what name you call or worship your God, as long as in your hearts, God is that...

The professor holds that the human rights provision in the constitution should be read liberally to facilitate freedom.

Beside being Keningau MP, he is also PBS president, deputy chief minister and state minister for infrastructure development.

Environment protection NGO cannot be kissing cousins of profit driven loggers and poachers who destroy the nation's jungles.

Thai pathologist Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand was just doing her job, said the Penang CM.

The feud in the country’s newest political party MMSP worsened today as a CC member is set to file a multi-million-ringgit suit against the party boss.

Malay rights group Pribumi Perkasa plans to hold a major demo to protest the court decision.

COMMENT Enough of the hot air, now is the time for action call to the MCA president to energise the party.

Non-Muslims in Malaysia accept the fact that the word 'Allah' belongs to Muslims, said Shahrizat Abdul Jalil.

With a whole host of problems facing the nation, the former finance minister gives his brutally honest views on the situation and the solutions. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Ex-Dang Wangi police chief’s fumbles in court has lead to the government’s unsuccessful bid to defend its action in the Apcet II civil suit.

Secret transfers of funds abroad, authorities's silence on the issue get the PKR goat, so the MB gets a whacking.

Investigators sifted through rubble Saturday after a suicide car bomber detonated his explosives-filled vehicle in a crowd watching a volleyball game in northwest Pakistan, killing at least 88.

COMMENT Seeming fairness in the High Court decision to allow non-Muslims to use the term ‘Allah’ sets up the stage nicely for ‘justice’ in the Anwar Ibrahim sodomy trial. 

Danish police shot and wounded an ax-wielding man linked to radical Somali Islamists who tried to break into the home of a cartoonist whose depictions of Islam's prophet Mohammed infuriated Muslims.

'Thanks for staying and joining the fight, and I can assure you that in any battle worth fighting for, there will be costs and sacrifices.'

free 'This is for the use of ‘Allah' in worship and publication in Bahasa, not in English. So to say ‘the Catholics had all along use God, why now want to use ‘Allah'' is wrong.'

Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said on Friday that he was ready to sacrifice his life in his campaign for reform after the disputed June re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Afghan authorities were distancing themselves on Friday from investigations into a suicide bomb attack that killed seven CIA agents, the US spy agency's biggest single loss of life in almost 30 years.

Finland was in mourning after a jealous ex-lover shot dead his former girlfriend and four of her work colleagues in the latest armed rampage which has reignited debate on the country's gun controls.