Archive - 31 January 2010

Barisan Nasional will do well in the tenth state election expected anytime between now and June 2011.

Penang Umno Youth head Norman Zahalan said the state government should be more considerate and tolerant of the petty traders.

Selangor police chief said at least 10 people had been called to give their statements to police over the dumping of four severed wild boar heads at two mosques.

PAS top brass descend on a northern Perak hamlet to rally their troops in readiness for snap polls.

The Higher Education Ministry is endeavouring to raise the voter turnout at campus elections to 80 percent or more.

Home Ministry with the help of MCMC is  monitoring blogs and websites that touch on the people's sensitivities, warns Hishammuddin.

Umno and the BN are prepared to accept leaders and members of the opposition parties who are disillusioned with their parties' struggles, Umno information chief Ahmad Maslan said.

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.3 on the Richter scale was detected in southern Sumatera, 195km northeast of Bengkulu, Indonesia and 599km southwest of Johor Bahru at 3.02pm today.

The PKR disciplinary committee has given itself one month to decide on the action be taken against two of its elected representative - Zulkifli Noordin and Zahrain Mohd Hashim.

Kelantan Umno chief Mustapa Mohamed said only the Umno supreme council take Razaleigh to task over his statement on the oil royalty issue.

The Health Ministry is to form a special committee to monitor repair works carried out on the Duchess Of Kent Hospital in Sandakan said its minister Liow Tiong Lai.

Up to 180 people have been prosecuted so far under the Anti-Trafficking in Persons Act 2007, Home Ministry
secretary-general Mahmood Adam said.

Haiti's injured earthquake victims suffered a potentially deadly setback after the US military suspended evacuation flights.

Signs of incipient mutiny by MPs can be read not only in Zulkifly Nordin's behavior but also in Zahrain Mohd Hashim's salvoes against Lim Guan Eng.

free 'I would love to see Thaipusam revert to the days when immersion in prayers was the order of the day, not this carnival that we have now.'

free 'Just because you're not qualified to be MB doesn't mean that you should drag others down with you. It's not that women cannot become MBs. It's you who cannot be an MB.'

Heavy flooding in southern Peru, which trapped thousands of tourists visiting the Inca city of Machu Picchu, has killed 20 and left at least five missing.

China lashed out with a raft of reprisals yesterday after Washington announced a 6.4-billion-dollar arms package for Taiwan.

The Taliban denied that leaders of the group fighting to overthrow the Afghan government had met UN representatives to discuss bringing peace to Afghanistan