Archive - 29 March 2010

The mutual distrust between BN and Pakatan could result in a political punch-up when the state assembly sits tomorrow.

PM Najib Abdul Razak has not decided on whether to reshuffle his Cabinet, despite the election of a new MCA leadership yesterday. [VIDEO INSIDE]

A sergeant of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) and a businessman have been charged with stealing and disposing off two F5E jet engines belonging to the RMAF.

A group of lawyers will submit a protest memorandum to IGP to complain over the recent manhandling of their colleague Amer Hamzah Arshad.

Hulu Terengganu parliamentarian asked point blank if the lucrative CCTV installation projects at courthouses were for security purposes or for profit.

For over 20 years, 30 Orang Asli families residing in the Kampung Pelam, Pahang, have lived without electricity and clean water.

PKR's Hulu Selangor division treasurer Dr Halili Rahmat is considered as a good pick for the upcoming by-election.

The NEM draft shows that there are no firm measures to be announced and its likely to be received with a whimper, rather than a bang.

This is because the government does not want the national car manufacturer to be controlled by foreign parties, says Deputy Finance Minister Chor Chee Heung.

He will serve the next five years, ending recent uncertainty that he will remain in the post.

"Barrack Stay" or army style stay at the former Port Dickson army camp has become the latest attraction to draw tourists to the 'Army Town' of Port Dickson.

However, Penang Gerakan chief Teng Hock Nam lauded the majority of Umno's top leaders for distancing themselves from the Malay rights group.

UPDATED 5.50PM The Bukit Bendera Umno division has dissolved its exco to force fresh elections and bring back Ahmad Ismail as its leader.

PARLIAMENT UPDATED 6.31PM A deputy speaker concedes that the wrong Standing Order was cited, but that Anwar Ibrahim must substantiate his claim about the public relations firm.

He has charged Anwar with sodomy, but not another politician who was caught with his pants down.

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Monday on trains on Moscow's metro system, killing at least 34 people during morning rush-hour, emergency workers and prosecutors said.

Sixteen migrants were on the run Monday after cutting their way out of a detention centre at Malaysia's main international airport, immigration officials said.

UPDATED 2.33PM The newly formed Human Rights Party (HRP) will not participate in the upcoming Hulu Selangor by-election.

PARLIAMENT UPDATED 4.40PM Pasir Mas MP Ibrahim Ali demands action over a PKR claim that he had owned shares in a gaming company.

UPDATED 1.50PM Lim Guan Eng wants an immediate probe, saying the shares allocated would have enabled bumiputeras to meet the equity target.

Experts believe this will be the case, so long as policy makers suffer from tunnel vision.

Dr Chua Soi Lek's election as the new MCA president grabbed the headlines in all the newspapers.

Searchers have found the stern section of a South Korean warship that was torn apart by a mystery blast near the North Korean border and divers will try to reach it later Monday, the military said.

How secure can the country be when we voluntarily expose all governmental functionaries to a private firm with a strong foreign interest?

COMMENT The Hulu Selangor poll offers PKR the chance to be electorally creative in the run-up to the general election, likely to be called next year.

Sabah PKR's Jeffrey Gapari Kitingan speaks out against a recent suggestion to replace Malaysia Day with National Unity Day instead.

free 'Let them try their luck. After that they will realise that a party for one race cannot do any thing.'

free 'Umno, how can you continuously accuse Anwar of having unnatural sex when the leader of your component party has done the same thing?'

US President Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan Sunday, his first since taking office, to press Afghan leaders to end corruption and rally American troops in the war on the Taliban.

Pope Benedict XVI, under increasing fire for the Roman Catholic Church's handling of paedophile priests, urged Christians Sunday not to be intimidated by idle "chatter".

Several thousand people marched through the streets of Madrid Sunday to call for bullfighting to be outlawed amid a growing national debate over the practice which animal activists condemn as a form of torture.

An armed gang of masked men stormed a packed casino in the Swiss city of Basel Sunday and made a getaway into France with hundreds of thousands of francs (euros, dollars), authorities said.