Archive - 11 February 2010

A senior citizen was jailed nine years today for strangling his wife after catching her in an indecent act with a Bangladeshi two years ago.

MCA deputy president claims that being politically active prevents him from taking on the role of heading the major daily.

Judges must always bear in mind the justice of a case when deciding to grant postponement of a trial or to enter judgment in the absence of a party, he said.

When state governments should be busy preparing for Chinese New Year festivities, Penang's is busy with ceramah and distributing fliers.

Doctors attending to blogger RPK's son, Raja Azman, have decided not to surgically remove the razor blade in his stomach.

Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM) wants  the government to provide free higher education in Malaysia, as the cost of private education is a heavy financial burden for the majority of Malaysian students.

Ahmad Zahid Hamidi denied that the kidnap was done by terrorists adding that it was a robbery by individuals who were not happy with the farm management.

The Sabah United Chinese Chamber Of Commerce saga continues with a new turn of events.

Due to poor response from the SMS via the Rakan Cop programme, Penang police are in the midst of launching their very own Facebook page.

DAP Indian grassroots leaders are looking to Karpal Singh to get the party's dormant Indian affairs bureau up-and-running again.

MCA youth chief failed to obtain an injunction to restrain Robert Phang and The Star from linking him to the PKFZ issue.

Doubts have been raised over Khazanah’s acquisition of a 10% stake in Hebei-based Oriental University City, valued at RM150 million.

A public inquiry is sought on the incident where the single mother was shot five times when the police opened fire on a car she was traveling in. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The DPM lambasts the Hong Kong-based PERC for giving the impression that Malaysia was veering towards instability.

UPDATED 5.45PM Malay Rulers say the issue, unless resolved immediately, will undermine the sanctity of Islam and possibly security and public order as well.

Quite a number are finding work at home in plantations run by Malaysian companies where wages are reportedly higher.

Police said today they fear a new syndicate is using the country as a transit point, after arresting seven more Iranians for drug-smuggling.

Long-house residents in PJS 1, formerly known as Kampung Muniandy, have no idea where they are going when their homes are demolished after Feb 14 to make way for a school.

EXCLUSIVE Opposing parties will hold their celebrations 20km apart on Feb 20 in Selangor in strategic locations to bolster their popularity.

The fighter jet engine theft case involving airman N Tharmendran and company director K Rajandran Prasad will be mentioned on March 29.

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

UPDATED: 4.12PM They were at a protest over allegations that Anwar was poisoned with arsenic in late 1999.

Children should be learning civics and morals from their parents and society itself, not schools.

Should he lose, the nation's move towards freer democratic institutions hangs in the balance.

'ALLAH' CONTROVERSY The debate over using the word continues to simmer in the background as other more urgent matters engage the public's mind. [VIDEO INSIDE]

A Beijing court on Thursday upheld on appeal an 11-year prison term for leading Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was jailed on subversion charges, triggering swift US and EU criticism.

The United States said Wednesday it was "deeply concerned" over Myanmar's "unjustified" jailing of an American rights activist and called for his immediate release by the ruling military junta.

Haiti raised the death toll Wednesday from last month's quake above 217,000, while the focus turned to providing shelter for the homeless before heavy rains and the hurricane season come.

free ‘Not renewing Rosmah’s contract is nothing to crow about. A wiser course of action is to appoint someone neutral.’

free 'As long as Pakatan does its job right, it will have no problem in getting the people's support. Three years, after all, is not a long wait.’

The worst heatwave to hit Rio de Janeiro in 50 years turned the city into a pre-Carnival furnace Wednesday, and killed 32 elderly people further south, officials said.

The Obama administration narrowed in on Iran's all-powerful Revolutionary Guard by imposing new sanctions Wednesday on the force behind suspect nuclear work and urging the world to do the same.

A former Guantanamo Bay inmate was shackled and warned he would "disappear" if he refused to cooperate with US interrogators, Britain revealed Wednesday after losing a lengthy court battle.

Blizzards and icy winds paralyzed the northeastern United States on Wednesday, shutting down federal government for a third day and spreading Washington's misery north to New York and Boston.

Ukraine on Wednesday was plunged into political turmoil as Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko refused to acknowledge defeat in presidential elections and her rival called on her to resign.