Archive - 15 March 2010

While who the three possible candidates are is now quite clear, two of them play a tactical cat-and-mouse game with regards to announcing the candidacy.

ANALYSIS It is increasingly likely that former president Ong Ka Ting will join the MCA presidential fray and this is likely to be to Dr Chua Soi Lek's benefit.

Two girls aged 10 and 11 who were wed to middle-aged men have been separated from their husbands as their cases are investigated.

The recent reversals of economic policies has got the opposition questioning the government's competency especially in economic affairs.

The government's recent decision to hold back on fiscal reforms have fuelled talks that snap polls are around the corner.

Tan Tee Beng and Zulkifli Noordin feel they are now free to do what they think is right instead of having to toe the party line.

Geli claims the opposition leader is a youth icon and and just the right man to show them the correct path.

The Kedah Gerakan Youth chief questions why the state government has refused to follow Penang’s example in seeking local council elections.

MCA party president Ong Tee Keat begins his bid to defend his presidency at the Kelana Jaya MCA division.

COMMENT Possible terror attacks in the Straits of Malacca have led to high alerts in maritime security agencies as well as help from the US.

Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein confirms that a new IGP has been identified.

The Coalition for Good Governance  explains how a state government can override the Election Commission’s refusal to conduct the third vote.

Peter Chin will give up the federal energy, green technology and water portfolio if he fails to reduce power disruptions in the state by year’s end.

Time is being given to the Home Ministry to file a reply and for the complainant - a Sarawakian Christian - to respond if necessary.

Israeli police on Monday maintained restrictions on access to the Al-Aqsa mosque compound - Islam's third holiest site - for the fourth day running amid tensions in Jerusalem.

A group of hardliners besieged the Tehran home of opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, shouting death slogans and calling for him to be put on trial, reports said on Monday.

Becoming an Independent MP will let him advocate issues across both sides of the political divide, he says.

A US official identified as Michael Furlong organised a network of private contractors in Afghanistan and Pakistan with the purpose of finding and killing suspected Islamic militants.

Hamzah Zainuddin will know on April 26 whether or not the KL High Court accepts his defence statement in Anwar Ibrahim’s RM10 million defamation suit.

EXCLUSIVE Parliamentarian and economist Tony Pua saw this coming, although it happened sooner than he had anticipated.

Suspected "hit teams" from the powerful Juarez Cartel killed three person who were linked to the US consulate in Ciudad Juarez, marking an ominous turn in the drug war ravaging northern Mexico.

Abhisit Vejjajiva on Monday rejected an ultimatum by tens of thousands of protesters to dissolve parliament as they marched on a military barracks sheltering the government.

Maritime authorities picked up 93 members of Rohingya Burmese minority who had drifted aboard a boat for 30 days after fleeing their country.

The Socso pension scheme, rumours of a petrol price hike and the pro-Thaksin demostrations in Bangkok were leading issues in newspapers today.

Ireland's most senior Catholic cleric has rejected calls to quit after being accused of trying to cover up allegations of sex abuse by a notorious paedophile priest in the 1970s.

UPDATED 2.20PM The Agong tells Parliament that he is disappointed with the ‘abuse’ of freedom of expression.

COMMENT Though denied, rumours of Musa Hassan having quit underscore the perception that the politico-civil service complex is enmeshed in intrigue.

free 'The encouragement of party-hopping by both PKR and BN and the spate of MPs turning Independents betrays a contempt for the rakyat.'

Apart from the delay in the new GST tax, the government has postponed hikes in electricity tariffs and petrol prices.

free 'Umno used to be fearless tigers and bulldoze down any unsanctioned street protests against 'Umno policies', whether they are peaceful or not. Wonder what has has caused Umno's change of heart?'

A witchhunt orchestrated by George W. Bush supporters against government lawyers representing Guantanamo inmates has backfired, as conservatives joined the outcry against the McCarthy-like attacks.

The Penang-born shuttler made it to the final last year but he went down gallantly to Lin Dan of China.