Archive - 6 January 2010

MCA deputy president Dr Chua Soi Lek should resign to speed up the party's election process, said party vice-president Liow Tiong Lai.

Defence Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has dismissed calls for a royal commission into the RMAF F-5E jets engines theft.

However Hishammuddin said that he would take action if the protesters affect national security.

Tsutomu Yamaguchi, who survived the US atomic bombings of both Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to tell the world of the horrors, has succumbed to stomach cancer, his family said today.

A businessman and his family were given the jitters when a home-made bomb exploded in the porch of their house in Taman Perkasa, Permatang Tengah in Butterworth today.

UPDATED 9.55PM James Dawos Mamit, 61, will be sworn in as the deputy tourism minister on Jan 13, said a statement from the Prime Minister's Office.

Dzulkarnain Taib, who wrote the article ‘Pornthip confirms Beng Hock was murdered’, gave a statement to the police.

A statement from the PM's office said that as the matter had been taken to court, it was proper that everyone should respect the legal process in the country.

Selangor economic advisor does not have executive powers and can only advise from time to time.

The Shah Alam Syariah High Court will determine whether the Selangor Syariah Court had the jurisdiction to hear the case involving the former Perlis mufti.

Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim cites examples of how the term can and cannot be used. [VIDEO INSIDE]

President RS Thanenthiran issues show cause letters to 14 central committee members who passed a vote of no-confidence against him.

The lifting of the ban on use of ‘Allah’ is prompting a massive discussion on the Internet.

Some CC members feel the party should move forward until the scheduled party elections next year.

A space-age powerboat sent to harass Japanese whalers was rammed and sliced in two in its very first clash on Wednesday, activists said, dramatically escalating hostilities in icy Antarctic seas

A senior Sabah politician warns that this could poison ties between both halves of Malaysia.

A political drama is unfolding in Jawi, Penang, where a DAP councillor who was dropped from her post ingested paraquat, while the party’s state rep threatened to quit.

He said that at the moment, Syarikat Air Darul Aman (Sada), was focusing on improving the supply, including carrying out repairs on old pipes.

UPDATED 5.50PM The KL High Court grants a stay order, agreed to by Catholic weekly Herald out of national interest, pending an appeal. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Despite calls for calm, Muslim groups want congregations to join the protests planned outside major mosques after Friday prayers.

Community leaders feel that these clinics will benefit the low-income group in urban areas.

UPDATED 4.49PM The Sri Lankans will purportedly leave Malaysia from Thursday, unless the government has a change of heart.

More than 10 members of the Viva Palestina convoy were injured, four of them seriously by Egyptian police during a protest in El-Arish port yesterday.

Continued discrimination against Roma in Europe not only violates human dignity, but is a major social problem crippling the development of Eastern European countries with large Roma populations.

Continued discrimination against Roma in Europe not only violates human dignity, but is a major social problem crippling the development of Eastern European countries with large Roma populations.

Lead counsel Karpal Singh says the defence team needs at least a month to prepare Anwar Ibrahim's petition of appeal.

The PKR leader will file an affidavit tomorrow so that his action against his accuser over a 'false' sodomy report is heard swiftly following a two-year delay.

COMMENT Few stop to consider that Christians' now legally permitted use of the term ‘Allah' could pave the way for easier conversion to Islam.

Today’s mixed bag of headlines includes the gory death of a family of four, whose mutilated bodies were found in their home.

Activists Wednesday hurled stinkbombs at Japanese whaling ships after finally catching up with the fleet, blaming "spy planes" for disrupting their Antarctic harassment campaign.

This obnoxious man never gave Anwar a fair trial. William Shakespeare once wrote in one of his plays, "The evil that men do lives after them".

US intelligence missed "red flags" in the Arabian peninsula that could have disrupted a plot to blow up a US-bound plane, US President Barack Obama said, vowing to stop future lapses.

This is what the GST policy will do.

COMMENT The 'Allah' debate showcases both intolerance and ignorance of how the invisible 'others' or Christian bumiputeras live.

All is set for another year of lies and spin.

UPDATED 6.35PM RMAF sergeant N Tharmendran and aviation scrap parts dealer Rajandran P Kusy were today charged in the Petaling Jaya Sessions Court.

UPDATED 1.32PM The alliance will slash costs and ticket prices by pooling some resources to transform the Asian budget market.

free 'With crime so rampant that residents are setting up gated communities and ladies fear to carry handbags, the police are wasting resources to harass opposition politicians.'

Following are some questions and answers on what lies ahead and the political implications of a row threatening to increase religious tensions.

China's ambassador to the UN said yesterday that it is too early to contemplate new sanctions against Iran over its refusal to halt sensitive nuclear fuel work, and called for more diplomacy.

free 'Rather than prosecuting the rank-and-file that managed to pull of this brilliant smuggle, we should promote them to be the heads of our security agencies.'

Around 30 million high-tech German bank cards could leave owners high and dry as the feared Y2K computer bug cropped up 10 years later than expected.

Britain has warned Iceland it risks international financial isolation if it votes against a bill to compensate Britain and the Netherlands over the failure of Icesave bank.

The prime suspect in the massacre of 57 people in the volatile southern Philippines last year pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to multiple counts of murder.

They duo allegedly cooperated to remove and dispose the two engines, says AG Abdul Gani Patail.