Archive - 3 March 2010

Umno politicians say the signs are clearly saying PKR's days are numbered in the wake of recent defections.

Politicians in the state have been urged to cooperate with the police to facilitate investigations into recent cases of defamation.

Abdul Taib Mahmud, who has been Sarawak chief minister for 28 years, retains the PBB presidency for the 2010-2013 term when the post was uncontested.

A Malaysian transsexual has won refugee status in Australia after persuading an immigration review tribunal that she risked persecution if deported.

The prospect of Malaysian businesses increasing the salaries of employees this year, is positive.

Pulau Betong assemblyperson Muhamad Farid Saad has been appointed the new political secretary for Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nor Mohamed Yakcop.

His partner was ordered to be held at the Baitul Ehsan women's home in Sabak Bernam for three months in lieu of jail.

A report on the Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium (SSMZA) roof collapse on June 2 last year may be announced next week.

Former Tanah Merah division secretary Amran Abdul Rahman has been sacked from Umno for taking party matters to the court.

11 Indian candidates have been shortlisted for the post after the outcry over a non-Indian professor heading UM's Indian Studies Department.

Malakun said the BN government in Sabah, under the leadership of Chief Minister Musa Aman, had been performing 'excellently'.

An autobiography of Ibrahim Hussein will be unveiled on March 13, followed by the first exhibition of his works since 1986.

The Selangor government has re-gazetted the Kota Damansara Forest, covering an area of 321.7ha, as a permanent forest reserve.

Humiliation versus incarceration - which is actually more effective in deterring criminals from further aberrant behavior?

BN component parties in Sabah are now squabbling over the absence of ‘equality' in the sharing of power and government posts.

UPDATED 6.05PM Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has won his appeal to set aside a court order compelling him to repay Bank Islam a RM66 million loan.

So says ex-official Salehuddin, who showed up today at a press conference by the third MP to quit PKR in as many weeks.

Kartika was granted a royal audience today but her fate remains unclear six months after the punishment was suspended.

Women activists hand over evidence allegedly revealing information about a recent police investigation into the rape cases.

The Sarawak government has imposed an immediate ban on open burning during the current dry spell.

Anwar Ibrahim is trying to strike out the suit which is linked to the probe into the 1998 "black eye" incident.

UPDATED 4.05PM PKR MPs Wee Choo Keong and Zulkifli Noordin did not join their 12 colleagues in declaring full support for the party.

EXCLUSIVE It’s not a political decision, but the correct decision, says Anwar. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Serving three to five years in the rural areas is a non-issue to the 160,000 teachers who are members of the NUTP.

The government should negotiate for bulk discounts for tickets from airlines in lieu of loyalty points, the Fomca said today.

UPDATED 2.42PM A coalition of rights groups intends to protest against the impending GST. [VIDEO INSIDE]

'Better they leave now rather than weaken us later... near or at the next general election,' said PKR VP Sivarasa.

The focus was on animals in the English-language dailies, with a mixed bag of issues in the rest.

UPDATED 12.33PM Mohsin Fadzli Samsuri Mohsin, who was elected in the March 2008 general elections, is the third PKR MP to quit in just as many weeks. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 2.15PM The High Court has today struck out the RM100 million defamation suit by former ISA detainee M Manoharan.

Whose money is going into this?

Thousands more troops deployed across Chile as armed vigilantes patrolled neighborhoods to ward off looters and protect residents already traumatized by a devastating earthquake.

free 'I thought that as a senior civil servant under the professional grade, the marketing division director should not be involved in outside business other than his own department work?'

Guatemala's police chief and top anti-drug officer were arrested on Tuesday for suspected links to drug traffickers and the murder of five policemen, an official source told AFP .

free 'It's sad that Anwar Ibrahim surrounds himself with people like this. You can take them out of Umno, but you cannot take the Umno out of them.'

A Spanish court on Tuesday sentenced a leader of the banned Basque separatist party Batasuna to two years in jail after convicting him on charges of glorifying terrorism.

Dubai police said on Tuesday they are seeking the arrest of Israel's prime minister and the head of its spy agency over the murder of a top Hamas militant in a hotel room of the Gulf city-state.

Radovan Karadzic told judges trying him for genocide on Tuesday that wartime atrocities blamed on Bosnian Serbs were "staged" by their Muslim enemies and said the 1995 Srebrenica massacre was a "myth".

The British Broadcasting Corporation is to slash spending on its online services and close two radio stations in a shake-up which follows criticism of its market dominance, it announced on Tuesday.