Archive - 26 January 2010

The book ‘Muslim Women and The Challenge of Islamic Extremism' can create doubt and disharmony among the people in the country, according to the Malaysian Islamic Development Department (JAKIM).
    

A witness in the corruption trial of former immigration DG Wahid Md Don said the payments were deposited into the account of a 'Syed Abdullah'.

The two leaders slug it out in the Wall Street Journal over the ‘Allah’ controversy.

A nearby field can be used for public gatherings instead of the Dewan Sri Pinang compound, says Penang state exco.

District officer testifies it is assemblypersons' prerogative how allocations are spent and his job was merely to approve them.

Academic standards suffer as the state faces severe shortfall in teaching staff, especially in the rural areas of Sabah.

Kepong DAP MP wonders if the remaining 9,788 schools will be left out in the cold while the so-called ‘high-performing' schools are given RM1 million each.

The Immigration Department has been urged to put off a nationwide crackdown against illegal foreign workers and employers, who harboured them, until after the Chinese New Year (CNY).

Enforcement officers seized a car and sealed 46,400 litres of petrol at a service station in Rantau Panjang, Pasir Mas, last night after the operator allowed a customer to fill the fuel in a plastic drum.

The court will hear an application by palace officials to strike out a defamation suit filed against them by Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra on March 25.

UPDATED 5.40PM She was asked to give a statement as an 'alibi witness' just days before the Sodomy II case is to go on trial.

UPDATED 10:20PM Former Perak MB blames TV station for not fact-checking before implicating his special assistant in the recent sand smuggling case.

A meeting with the graft watchdog revealed that the senior MACC prosecutors are mulling further action against Khir Toyo over the trips.

Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah, who is the Sultan of Kedah, was proclaimed today as the acting Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

The Health Ministry is reviewing the rules and regulations regarding consultation and procedural fees imposed by private hospitals following complaints from the public.

Working with a social enterprise that interacts mainly with oil palm plantations, I had an opportunity to step into a plantation in Bintulu, Sarawak.

Only those with chronic diseases are eligible for assistance under the RM10 million special allocation announced by the government last month, Ahmad Said said.

They will be held for six more days to assist with a probe into the fire-bombing of the Metro Tabernacle AG church.
   

Info Minister Rais Yatim said the blogger, however, would have to formally issue an apology.

UDATED 5.30PM PAC declares that no high-profile officers were involved in the theft.

A Japanese woman appeared in a Sepang court today on charges of trafficking 3.5 kilograms of methamphetamines which will see her executed if convicted.

Karpal received a letter from Abdul Gani yesterday that he was unable to issue it under section 379 of the Criminal Procedure Code.

BREAKING NEWS Police have obtained a remand order to hold blogger ‘Aduka Taruna’  for questioning.

Rumours abound that fresh polls will be called in March with the Federal Court to make a ruling on the MB-vs-MB case on Feb 9.

Most major newspapers led with reports on 20 schools which have been awarded the status of high-performance schools.

The case is on the termination a contract for the supply and installation of outdoor advertising billboards to promote the BN in the 2008 general election.

UPDATED 8PM The political bureau has imposed a gag order on its controversial MP pending a disciplinary committee hearing soon. [VIDEO INSIDE]

COMMENT The late Ghazali Shafie was a terror in his time as home minister, and a master of manipulation of the news.

The economy is likely emerged from recession in the fourth quarter of 2009 and will post 3.7 percent growth in 2010 as the global economy recovers, a leading think-tank said today.

Budget carrier AirAsia said today it will launch flights from Malaysia to five major Indian cities in 2010, with plans to carry two million passengers a year.

COMMENT The party's past laxity towards the controversial Zulkifili Noordin has contributed to its current dilemma.

Despite threats of disciplinary action, Kulim MP and PKR politician Zulkifli Noordin turns the tables against his critics.

Dr M must be constantly reminded that he’s not god, any more than he may think that he’s above the law.

He was allowed to amend certain parts of his defence in a defamation suit filed by IGP Musa Hasan linked to the probe into the 1998 'black eye' incident.

Led by PBB, BN is well-entrenched in Sarawak while the opposition lack cohesiveness and focus to pose a credible threat.

Pre-dawn bomb blasts in Sri Lanka's Tamil heartland escalated tensions as the country went to the polls Tuesday in the first presidential election since the end of its 37-year civil war.

The Higher Education Ministry's simplistic panacea.

Health DG Dr Ismail Merican says some wards in government hospitals have too many trainees who are 'under-worked'. [VIDEO INSIDE]

COMMENT The jailing of Liu demonstrates in the starkest terms that China’s neglect of human rights is flowing to the rest of world alongside the mass of Chinese goods.

The British and Irish prime ministers were battling on Tuesday to bring Northern Ireland's divided leaders to an agreement and avert the collapse of the province's fragile administration.

The compound in front of Dewan Sri Pinang that has hosted a number of NGO activities has been fenced off.

Voting began today in Sri Lanka's presidential election, which pits incumbent Mahinda Rajapakse against his former army chief in a tense contest hit by pre-dawn bomb blasts.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said he would press for Taliban names to be removed from a UN blacklist to spur reconciliation as support grows for a negotiated truce with local fighters.

A radio newscaster lodged a police report last night over a video-clip in Youtube which allegedly insulted the late Sultan of Johor, Sultan Iskandar ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail.

Prime minister said Malaysia's performance will be judged by its speedy decision-making and execution.

Haiti's premier begged foreign donors Monday to back the reconstruction of his quake-hit country as fresh looting and chaos underscored the grim conditions facing survivors.

free 'When did the police get the powers to interpret Articles 5 and 10 of our Federal Constitution on personal liberty and freedom of speech and expression?'

free 'Anwar, convince yourself all you want that it is your good-natured, fatherly tolerance that allows Zulkifli to prevail. Many do not see it that way. They see your ineffectiveness as leader.'

Saddam Hussein's notorious cousin and henchman "Chemical Ali" was executed on Monday for the 1988 gassing of thousands of Kurds.