Archive - 2 March 2010

Umno vice-president said today it is not proper to take the oil royalty issue to court as there are other avenues to solve it.

Penang PKR chairman expects at least five more party members, including elected representatives, to leave the party soon.

If the five can act as a block in Parliment, they will be a force to reckon with, according to political analyst Dr Sivamurugan Pandian.

Since the position of Perak legislative assembly speaker R Ganesan is being disputed, Pakatan Rakyat is still not sure whether to recognise the March 30 assembly sitting.

All Malaysians are urged to come together again during Earth Hour 2010 to show their support for the fight against climate change.

The picket was the first in the history of Labuan which has been affected by a shortage of water supply since the middle of last year.

The trio are currently held without trial for more than two months and their parents have turned to Suhakam for help.

MCA president has denied that a watch claimed to be worth more than HK$1 million (RM440,000) was a given to him as a personal gift.

UPDATED 6.55PM The Port Klang Authority explains why it cannot take action against the former transport minister.

The PM has reassured Sarawak BN politicians that Umno will stay away from the state.

UPDATED 6.54PM A blogger is posting RM10,500 bail for Raja Azman who was allegedly ill-treated while in prison. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Fariz Musa is said to have hindered the authorities who were demolishing squatter houses in Kuala Terengganu.

The Selangor Puteri Umno lodged a police report against a man for allegedly making seditious and insulting comments on its secretary.

A fisheries department senior officer's involvement with the sole distributor of the new food grade fish boxes raises questions, said FT Gerakan Youth chief.

Malaysian teachers are saying 'no' to sex. They are not ready to impart sex education in schools.

A PKR veep warns of the possibility of there being ‘1Malaysia but two standards of healthcare’ plus a worsening of the shortage of specialists.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court today ruled that a dismissed employee can hold an officer's position in a union.

Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno will have a royal audience tomorrow to discuss her fate, six months after the thrashing was suspended.

NEWS ANALYSIS Experts are relieved that the tiered petrol subsidy scheme has been scrapped, but consumers should not exhale just yet.

The info minister said last night that the government would not impose any restriction on the flow of information on the Internet.

UPDATED 4.15PM According to the PKR deputy president, former sec-gen Salehuddin Hashim was upset because he was not made CEO of a Selangor GLC.

Police imposed a curfew on Tuesday in a town in the southern Indian state of Karnataka after two people were killed in protests over an article by the exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen.

All MPs and senators from PAS and DAP reaffirm their commitment to Pakatan Rakyat in the face of resignations from PKR.

A 22-year-old woman died of H1N1-related illness at the Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital (HUSM), Kubang Kerian, on Sunday.

PJ Utara MP Tony Pua wants charges dropped because no action were taken against Umno and Perkasa demonstrations.

The court has set four days to hear the suit by Selangor menteri besar against BIMB for alleged wrongful sale of his shares.

EXCLUSIVE The PKR de facto leader is not losing sleep over the answer, saying that the party is mature enough to make a democratic decision. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offered to help Britain and Argentina resolve a simmering row over a south Atlantic archipelago but balked at an Argentine request for US mediation.

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

A senior US diplomat was due in China on Tuesday for talks aimed at getting Sino-US relations back on track, with tensions high over US arms sales to Taiwan and a White House visit by the Dalai Lama.

Analyst and experts question the motive for Malay rights council, while others defend the right to do so.

UPDATED 11.45PM The issue over the use of food grade insulated fish box is now settled, with fish importers agreeing to abide by the ruling.

Former Bosnian president Ejup Ganic was arrested in London on an extradition warrant from Serbia for alleged warcrimes during the 1990s Balkans conflict, police said.

 Ignorance and truth are important words in any language or culture.

The incoming executive committee of the Sabah United Chinese Chamber of Commerce cannot take over from the caretaker committee following a Court of Appeal ruling.

 

Although advertisers are required to portray Malaysia's multiracial face and culture in their work, many of them have failed to abide by the guideline.

REVIEW I f life imitates fiction, then artistic director Shamili Abnan’s enlightening production ‘Tanda’ is a dark foretelling of a doomed Malaysia.

A British climate researcher at the centre of a row over global warming science has admitted he wrote some "pretty awful" emails to sceptics when he was refusing their requests for data.

US president Barack Obama plans "dramatic reductions" in the country's nuclear arsenal, a senior US official said, but it remains unclear if he will opt for a radical break from past policy.

COMMENT The former Penang DCM’s joining Umno caps a saga emblematic of the problems that continue to bedevil PKR and the country.  

free 'Compare this with the Shahrir Samad interview which was full of beating around the bush, fluff and vague escapist answers.'

free 'We voted in March 2008 to purge the country of such people, regardless of party affiliation.'

Spain demanded on Monday that Venezuela answer charges it helped Basque separatist group ETA and Colombian rebels plot to kill Colombia's president Alvaro Uribe in Spain.