Archive - 13 February 2010

The government will introduce a new English language curriculum next year to strengthen the command of the language among students.

Razaleigh should weigh his position in Umno following his using the opposition platform to state his stand on the oil royalty issue.

Lim Guan Eng has characterised the action of Zahrain to quit the party as wanting to protect his personal and individual interests.

Former Penang PKR chief Zahrain Mohamed Hashim has been urged to join a BN component party, said Umno vice-president Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

Penang Pakatan leaders came out in full force last night to fight accusations that the state government had sidelined the Malay community. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Muslim NGOs are seeing red over a Valentine's Day campaign. And it has nothing to do with the colour of love.

A top blogger, who is a PAS member, has lodged a complaint against three party leaders over a litany of wrongdoings.

Attempts are being made to rebrand the Simpang Renggam rehab centre, notoriously known as a ‘finishing school’ for criminals.

Two pieces of cooperative legislations are seen as providing licence to suck out funds from the voluntary bodies without any kind of legal oversight.

COMMENT We have the best judicial system in the world whose judgments are universally respected by all Malaysians.

COMMENT It would be folly to read too much into Zahrain’s departure from PKR. But it would be myopia to see too little.

Thousands of US-led troops have begun a major offensive against one of the Taliban insurgents' last bastions in southern Afghanistan, a NATO official said Saturday.

free 'Go for the big ones which are openly and daringly showcasing their ill-gotten earnings in the form of luxury cars and mansions.'

free 'Tan Tee Beng, tomorrow is Chinese New Year. Please don't disappoint us. Take Zulkifli Noordin by the hand and walk out PKR's front or back door.'

Al-Qaeda's leader in Iraq threatened military action in a bid to prevent a parliamentary election being held next month, as official campaigning started in the country on Friday.

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's party called Friday for fresh elections if talks remained deadlocked between rival factions of the frayed power-sharing government.

Poland's PM Donald Tusk condemned what he termed the repression of the Polish minority in neighbouring Belarus, after authorities there cracked down on a Polish group.

Sri Lanka's Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear a challenge to the arrest of defeated presidential candidate Sarath Fonseka, as opposition parties stepped up a campaign for his immediate release.