Archive - 1 March 2010

'He was literally sleeping during meetings,' claims Penang PKR committee member Abdul Malik Kassim of the former Penang deputy chief minister.

The points system will enable highway concessionaires to identify accident-prone stretches and rectify flaws for safer driving.

Despite a steady trickle of defections, the two sister Pakatan component parties have vowed to remain steadfast behind his embattled leadership.

PAS plans to contest in nine parliamentary seats and 15 state seats in Sabah in the next general election, state PAS commissioner Muhamad Abdullah said.

The security guard who rescued nine schoolchildren in the Kuala Dipang bridge tragedy has been awarded for his bravery.

Minister Noh Omar said the plan would be announced tomorrow after a meeting with importers of fish from Thailand.

Proceedings will go on as normal without extra precautions, whether security or media attendance-wise.

They claim that the motion was amended to pressure Petronas to pay the royalty as soon as possible to Kelantan.

'By having Prai as a Indian-majority seat, the Human Rights Party and Indians would have more say in state policies'.

Penang chief minister wants the people of the state to judge for themselves the actions of the two who have quit PKR.

A PAS senator has discontinued his legal bid to challenge a decision by the Kelantan Regent to revoke his datukship and other honours.

Patrick Sindu denies that ‘anyone’ has tried to siphon off money from a frozen bank account held by the deregistered Consumer Association of Sabah & Labuan.

The driving habits of Malaysians are not just deplorable during the festive seasons but equally bad when they drive to and from work.

It is far too easy to expose our judges for incompetence as is clear in Anwar Ibrahim's ongoing trial.

Salahuddin Hashim, who has sent in his letter of resignation, confirms that more members will jump ship but ‘not all at once’.

COMMENT 2010 will be a crucial and uncertain year for the Islamic Republic of Iran – and for its relations with the European Union. The domestic hostility towards the regime that erupted...

A new Federal Court quorum will be constituted to hear Anwar Ibrahim's leave application for leave to appeal against the dismissal of his RM100 million defamation suit against former premier. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 5.30PM Short pickets were held at four public hospitals across the country today to protest the full-paying patient (FPP) scheme. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Malaysian-led peace monitors have returned to the troubled southern Philippines for the first time since Muslim rebels launched a wave of deadly attacks in 2008, officials said Monday.

We are charting our future ruins based on the politics of desperados inspired by a decadent ideology no longer in synchrony with the real issues of the day.
                   

The court will decide on April 14 on the ROS' application to set aside the Mate ruling that T Murugiah is the rightful president of PPP.

COMMENT Why hold back women if they can do the job better than men in the civil service or elsewhere?

A myriad of topics dominated headlines and editorial discussion today including the Chile quake, the murder of a three-year-old and the prime minister's remarks during a daily's open house.

Seventeen people including two Israeli policemen were wounded in clashes at Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound...

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak wants the government administrative machinery to redouble its efforts to achieve a national economic growth target of six percent this year.

Intimidating people who express opposing views is not the direction Malaysia should be heading

The only usable land border crossing between Georgia and Russia reopened after more than three years of closure, restoring a vital route between Russia and the strategic South Caucasus.

UPDATED 5.05PM Bruises around Teoh's neck could explain the mysterious circumstances around his death. [VIDEO INSIDE]

EXCLUSIVE ‘For doing what?’, he asks rhetorically, as he speaks about his sodomy trial and how he sees Najib and his policies, in the first of a four-part interview. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Rescue teams searched for survivors Monday after Chile's quake toll topped 700 and the extent of the disaster became clear in coastal areas where giant waves left behind a path of death and destruction.

Hurricane-force winds, surging seas and driving rain lashed western Europe, leaving at least 53 people dead and more than a million households without power.

free 'Umno is cheating Kelantan of its rightful payments, just as they did when PAS controlled Terengganu. What Umno is afraid of is PAS utilising the royalty payments for the betterment of Kelantan.'

free 'There is no dilemma at all between the need for development and the wishes of the indigenous people. There is only avarice on an obscene scale. These dam projects are completely unnecessary and immeasurably destructive.'