Archive - 29 January 2010

Police raided yesterday the office of defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka as monitors and rights groups criticised the Sri Lankan election.

The 2010 Umno general assembly will be held from Oct 28-30, Prime Minister Najib Razak said.

He said the campus elections followed the democratic process and the students had cast their votes.

A consensus was reached between University Malaya officials and angry students after day-long negotiations following this morning's siege of the administration building.

Officers from its publication control and Quranic text division conducted the raids.

The policeman was discharging his duty according to the law and the woman knows what had happened, said Kuala Lumpur police chief Muhammad Sabtu Osman.

In the wake of Zahrain Hahim's attack on Lim Guan Eng, the Penang Deputy Chief Minister says he should have gone through Pakatan channels to resolve his grouses.

Three civil servants were separately charged in the Sessions Court with receiving bribes in connection with smuggling sand to Singapore last year.

Sabah United Chinese Chamber of Commerce exco may have been declared as rightful office bearers by High Court but its caretaker committee is not being cooperative.

He claims that he has proof that Christians have an ulterior motive behind their insistence on using the term Allah. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Syria's stand is clear but Nigeria is at sea as it was not officially informed about its nationals being nabbed for alleged terrorism links.

Rawang residents continue their protests against TNB's construction of high-tension power lines through their villages.

UPDATED 8.20PM Vocal MP Khalid has been suspended as PAS' Shah Alam division head and political bureau member. [VIDEOS INSIDE]

Its Sarawak director Samsiah Abu Bakar said they were waiting for the technical report from the expert to finalise the report to make it more comprehensive.

Volunteers of Malaysian People better known as Rela Corps have demanded a non-governmental organisation (NGO) to pay money for crowd control services.

UPDATED 6.5 0PM Liow Tiong Lai's push for fresh polls has hit a brick wall for now after the central committee decided that no such contest would be held since only 13 CC members have offered to quit.

Dr Wan Azizah Ismail is among the alibi witnesses listed in her husband Anwar Ibrahim's sodomy case, police said today.

UPDATED 7.18PM A blogger, who was investigated for allegedly insulting the late Sultan of Johor, was charged at the Seremban Sessions Court today. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Bank Negara says there is a need to look at normalising interest rates though there is no formation of an asset bubble currently but there are other risks of financial imbalances.

The pro-aspirasi (pro-establishment) faction has dominated three more major universities at the recently conducted campus election.

About 4.8 million or 43 per cent of Malaysians aged 30 years and above have hypertension or high blood pressure.

PKR parliamentarian alleges that PKR has compromised its reformasi agenda with excessive 'kow-towing' to DAP and chief minister Lim Guan Eng.

Cow heads, boar heads, places of worship and the difference in the police response speed speaks volumes about the current atmosphere of the country.

Royal protocol and meeting with religious department officials are said to be in way of such a notion becoming a reality.

Pro-M graduates cry foul over defeat, claims election was rigged. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Democracy works best when people can publically voice their opinions

All the 20 High Performance Schools (HPS) will receive an additional allocation of RM700,000 a year each, Muhyiddin Yassin said today.

UPDATED 6.35PM The police today quizzed DAP parliamentarian M Manogaran with regards to his speech where he linked Umno to the attacks on places of worship and commented on Anwar's sodomy trial.

COMMENT While children are dying because of shortages of food and medical care due to the Israeli siege of Gaza, Angela Merkel's government is honouring those responsible for this barbarism.

What has happened to our health care system?

He said that besides being improper, such action could backfire on the winning candidate through lawsuit instituted by the defeated party.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court today postponed to Feb 12 its decision on the application for a judicial review by author K Arumugam over the government's move to ban his book.

Malaysiakini compares the key news and views in major newspapers. What is today's agenda for the newspapers?

UPDATED 2.43PM  The alleged arsonists of the Metro Tabernacle Church were charged in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court today.

Winning over the hearts and minds of rural Malays and the Orang Asli are the crucial to the coalition's progress.

UPDATED 2.39PM It cannot review the action of K'tan Regent Tengku Muhammad Faris in removing his younger brother from the state royal succession.

It commended the government for recognising the worsening perception of corruption and launching the NKRA to fight the scourge.

UPDATED 5.45PM A stage set up for a Selangor government event was dismantled by the police for ‘security reasons’. However today evening, the police gave permission for the event to go on.

Former British prime minister Tony Blair faces a public grilling today over his decision to wage war on Iraq, seven years after a bloody conflict that still divides his country.

UPDATED 4.05PM Anwar has lost his final chance to get more key evidence such as CCTV footage and medical reports from the prosecution to prepare for his sodomy trial. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The hierarchical order strikes fear into the hearts of housemen that their future may be jeopardised if they were to raise any complaints.

Iran hanged two men convicted of being Mohareb (enemies of God), in the first executions of dissidents since protests over the disputed presidential poll in June, news reports said.

free 'At the heart of the issue is not whether the said bungalow costs RM2.4 million or RM24 million. It is about whether Khir Toyo has been doing things right in the process of building the bungalow.'

The US Senate voted Thursday to slap tough new sanctions on Iran, targeting its thirst for gasoline imports in a bid to force Tehran to bow to global pressure to freeze its suspect nuclear program.

free 'Khairy Jamaluddin should be commended for taking the effort to contain the wrath of Muslims over this provocative incident which could have been disastrous to the common people.'

China has agreed to cooperate with a coalition of naval forces combating rampant piracy off the coast of Somalia, a top Norwegian official said yesterday.

President Barack Obama Thursday rekindled the "Yes We Can" mood of his 2008 campaign, vowing not to shirk from the "tough stuff" after his reform plans ground to a near halt in Congress.