Archive - 4 January 2010

Is the former staunch supporter of vice-president Liow Tiong Lai now rooting for rival Dr Chua Soi Lek?

Mositun rebuts allegations, denies concealing evidence of crime in Sabah unit trust fund.

The ruler who is seeking treatment in Singapore now will be transferred to Kuala Lumpur Hospital soon, said the state's menteri besar.

Appealing the decision may win the BN some political support, but will not necessarily aid national unity.

A Malay rights group is planning a nationwide protest on Friday after a court ruled last week that Catholics can refer to God as "Allah"

Customs officers seized ketamine weighing 169kg worth RM3.04 million at Port Klang and the KL International Airport (KLIA), Sepang last Tuesday.

The Home Ministry today filed an appeal against the high court ruling that the word 'Allah' can be used by the Catholic weekly magazine Herald.

A Sivanesan of DAP says P Waythamoorthy should return to Malaysia and face cross-examination over his defamation suit.

UPDATED 6.52PM The AG said no senior air force officers were involved in the theft of the two engines. The engines were taken to Uruguay.

The electrified railway double-tracking project will be completed according to schedule in 2013, said Transport Minister Ong Tee Keat.

The deputy prime minister urged everyone to have faith in the government leadership to tackle the problem.

COMMENT The language confusion over ‘Allah’ is no longer a laughing matter. It is turning Malaysia again into an embarrassment.

Lim Kit Siang tells Abu Kassim Mohamed to prove he can lead the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission towards independence and impartiality.

Barely two months after the launching of the party, its president RS Thanenthiran is facing ouster following a split in ranks.

Khalid Samad says Zulkifli Noordin has an 'Umno-like mentality' while the latter urges the former to quit PAS and join DAP.

Water buffloes pose a major menace to motorists using the trunk road from Temerloh to Jerantut in Pahang.

A four-year-old boy was feared drowned while nine others were safe after their boat capsized in Sungai Labuk near Kampung Melapi in Sabah.

The central bank said members of the public are usually enticed to attend such investment or training programmes with promises of quick and good returns.

Abu Kassim Mohamed has been sworn in as the new Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief commissioner today.

US officials toughened security measures for all US-bound airline passengers, and warned those traveling from or via 14 "terror linked" nations will undergo mandatory enhanced screening.

Most dailies headlined the premier’s call for calm over the High Court judgment in favour of Catholic newsletter ‘The Herald’, over the use of ‘Allah’.

Some 60 revellers were forced to drink beer and play cards for three days after they became stranded in a British pub cut off by snowstorms on New Year's Eve.

A powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck near the Solomon Islands in the western Pacific on Monday with the potential to cause a local tsunami, seismologists said.

'The MACC have their own pathologist representing them from the UK. So what are they really afraid of?'

free 'After such a long time, we from the Land Below the Wind, are no longer allowed to use the term ‘Allah'. We paid the price for joining Tanah Melayu.'

A powerful homemade bomb exploded yesterday at a court in a southern Italian city, in an attack the authorities blamed on the local mafia.

There was no "smoking gun" that could have led US intelligence agencies to thwart an attack by an Al-Qaeda-linked Nigerian aboard a US-bound airliner, a top White House security adviser said yesterday.

The United States and Britain promptly closed their embassies in Yemen on Sunday after learning an Al-Qaeda offshoot linked to a botched US airliner bombing is planning attacks on Western targets.

US missiles flattened an extremist hideout in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt yesterday, killing five militants in the latest strike in a recent spike in drone attacks, Pakistani officials said.