Archive - 16 March 2010

EC chief Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said its stand on local government elections will be announced next week.

Minister of Energy, Green Technology and Water Datuk Seri Peter Chin Fah Kui has advised Rawang new village residents to allow TNB to resume construction works in their area.

A political party's success or failure in the elections does not depend on one factor, but encompasses various aspects, said the prime minister today.

Fiji's government on Tuesday declared a state of disaster as the first deaths were reported in the cyclone-ravaged Pacific nation where 17,000 people have fled to evacuation centres.

Controversial artiste Wee Meng Chee is seeking funding for his 1Malaysia-themed movie from his pet peeve - the government. [VIDEO INSIDE]

PARLIAMENT The commission confirmed that it would even travel to England to continue its investigation on the case.

In what is believed to be the first time in Malaysian political history, a former party president is set to make a comeback to reclaim the post.

PARLIAMENT Minister in PM's Dept calls Pakatan childish for 'abusing' the parliamentary quorum.

'We will respond to them, latest by next week. It will be based on our interpretation of the law.'

Having won its legal battles, TNB will enter Rawang new village tomorrow, to restart construction of high tension cable towers halted for five years.

The two complainants said they are not aware of a constitutional provision that enables action to be taken against any Malay ruler.

The de facto Islamic affairs minister Jamil Khir Baharom has rejected calls to amend laws that allow underaged women to be married.

PARLIAMENT The speaker rejects the motion by Kubang Kerian PAS MP Salahuddin Ayub on the ground that it is not ‘urgent’. [VIDEO INSIDE]

His detained wife is due to deliver their first child in a week but he alleges that immigration officers want money, which he can't pay.

UPDATED 7.20PM The de facto law minister today said Parliament is the proper place to decide the fate of the GST Bill. [VIDEO INSIDE]

A Penang PKR grassroots leader asks why the anti-graft body has closed the file on former state Pakatan Rakyat leaders who have crossed over to Umno.

PARLIAMENT The PAC paper will be tabled in the Dewan Rakyat this month, Defence Minister Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi said.

Anwar who is suing Chandra Muzaffar for defamation, cites delay by defence in filing 64 particulars as the main reason.

He has gone 'missing' since quitting PKR because of adverse reactions, including protests over his ‘betrayal' of the Pakatan cause.

Apparent cozy ties between two Kuala Lumpur Umno strongmen - Raja Nong Chik and Zulhasnan Rafique - bodes well for the party, writes Bernama .

Former deputy president Chua Soi Lek is expected to declare where he stands in the MCA race after his rivals have revealed their hands.

PARLIAMENT Malaysia is still competent in luring more foreign investments this year despite "stiff" regional competition.

The opening of the third session of Parliament shared the headlines with a variety of topics.

A new direction for a single and shared vision of Malaysia.

PARLIAMENT Najib, in taking questions in Parliament, said that the DAP were merely rebranding a concept that the public had already rejected.

EXCLUSIVE Tony Pua exposes the ‘financially desperate' government's cheap trick in attempting to generate revenue without reforming the fiscal system.

UPDATED 3.25PM 'To all members who care and love the party, I say I hear you, loud and clear,' he said.

His demeanour and discourse on the Allah issue gain PAS a fresh look from otherwise lukewarm Christians.

PARLIAMENT UPDATED 3.50PM Pakatan Rakyat MPs walked out of the Dewan Rakyat after the deputy speaker refused to allow a debate on a motion by the Home Ministry.

UPDATED 4PM He will not pursue his appeal against the High Court judge's decision not to stand down from the case. [VIDEO INSIDE]

A 6.7-magnitude aftershock has struck off Chile's coast, some 72 kilometers (45 miles) from Concepcion, among the cities hardest hit by last month's 8.8-magnitude quake, US seismologists said.

Clinging on to the NEP will only harm the Malays.

Senior citizens in Penang say it is difficult for the infirm among them to have to go to a bank to cash their RM100 vouchers the state has given them.

Transparency International Malaysia has this suggestion for the Selangor government, so that corruption can be contained and costs reduced.

Then again, notes an analyst, this is unsurprising because policy flip-flops have been the ‘standard operating procedure’ in government.

Two Muslim men have been charged in Ireland after a probe into an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Muhammad with the body of a dog, a report has said.

DAP suggests that Malaysia adopt Singapore's laws that jail children who abandon or neglect their aged parents.

Tens of thousands of red-clad Thai protesters pressed on Tuesday with their rally calling for snap elections, despite the prime minister's firm rejection of their demands that he step down.

US agents joined a probe into the brazen weekend killings at an American consulate in Mexico's bloodiest city, highlighting rampant violence that prompted expressions of concern from both governments.

Twenty-five people have been killed in a coal mine fire in central China, local authorities said on Tuesday, the latest deadly incident in the country's hazardous mining industry.

free 'His Majesty should also weigh in on mainstream media like Utusan which spews racial garbage on a daily basis.'

free 'I don't see much change in the professionalism of civil servants. There could be some sporadic cases of courageous acts within the civil services, but these are isolated cases.'

PM Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that settlement building in east Jerusalem would continue, in a move likely to further heighten tensions with key ally the United States.

The head of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland said Monday he would only quit if Pope Benedict XVI asks him to go, following allegations over his role in a clerical sex abuse probe.

A South African court found the youth leader of the ruling African National Congress guilty of hate speech, after he said President Jacob Zuma's rape accuser had "a nice time".