Archive - 29 May 2010

The prime minister says that with consistent 6 percent growth the target is achievable.  

The PM tries to placate both his Malay audience and the non-Malays by saying it is not yet cast in stone.

The majority Murut communities are the first in the state to receive this ‘gift from the Sabah Barisan Nasional government’.

6th PKR CONGRESS Members at the sixth PKR congress urge party leaders not to bungle up their prize catch and lose it to the ever-watching BN.

'If the attendance is big, it will be a clear signal that MIC president S Samy Vellu must go.'

He is still of the opinion that the crooked bridge project to replace the Causeway should be pursued.

The 86 Malay NGOs warned PM Najib to revamp the proposed New Economic Model or face their ire.

PKR Youth claims that the Elections Commission, despite whining about unregistered voters, is sabotaging the party’s efforts to register them.

The ban on sale of cigarette packs of under 20 sticks will now kick in on Jan 1, 2011, instead of this June 1.

The promise is a political gimmick by Anwar in an effort to continue to get the support of the Chinese community, says Najib.

Mohd Shafie Apdal said the internal problems brewing within the MIC to a certain extent have an effect on BN.

Among those at the meeting was sec-gen S Murugessan, who had yesterday ticked Samy Vellu off.

She adds that "NEP has been an instrument to conceal the corruption of Umno leaders." [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 9.26PM The Bumiputera Economic Congress became the arena for NEM-bashing.

Activists protested at the A'Famosa Animal World Safari over a video posted on YouTube.

But yesterday's 'Malam tak nak potong' three-hour carnival suggested laughter as the best medicine to tackle our censorship woes.

The PKR president has spoken - Selangor MB Khalid Ibrahim stays as the party’s Selangor chief. [VIDEO INSIDE]

PKR CONGRESS PKR speakers from all across the country tickled the delegates’ funny bone, but no one held the court better than S Manikumar. [VIDEO INSIDE]

free 'Why are the rakyat held responsible for all the mess and damage committed by the BN?'

COMMENT The anti-Samy movement is not the right way to oust the party leader, who will not be going anytime soon.

When the profit motive kicks into high gear, the employee's life dives into misery as foreign workers in one seafood joint found out.

Sabah's dying tradition of processing paddy leading up to the harvest festival `Kaamatan'.

Leaders of the splinter political group of Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD) registered their party at the Election Commission office in Naypyidaw Thursday, claiming they were gathering increasing support across the country.

Her husband died last year, but "he will be forever a guardian of biodiversity." Prof César Gómez-Campo, who passed away in September 2009, was one of the first people to use seed banking for the conservation of wild plant species.

'I will expose them soon, little by little,' he told a 10,000-strong crowd in Kelantan.

Junko Hamada, 59, is now in her 12th year as an elected member of the city council of Isehara, a sprawling bed town west of Tokyo with an estimated population of 150,000. The former women’s rights activist, married and with three adult children and a grandchild, exudes energy and elegance and talks quietly.

Endorsing sports betting seems to have opened a can of worms in the 'for and against' debate, with a good dash of hypocrisy thrown in.

free 'It's puzzling why the rest of CWC are not surfacing to finish off the weak and wounded Samy. The game is over.'

free 'Animal welfare rules do not hinder science, they support it since unhealthy, stressed animals will give distorted results.'