Archive - 5 June 2010

Umno Youth is not dismayed by its leader, Khairy's exclusion from the second cabinet reshuffle by PM Najib.

PKR president tells Manikavasagam 'to keep up the good fight, and that we should press on with our fight for a clean government,’

New Deputy Foreign Minister Richard Riot Jaem says his appointment was the result of pressure from the Bidayuh community.

GLCs can take the lead role in developing Kampung Baru here rather than opening it up to non-Malays, said former KL mayor Elyas Omar. 

The coalition against sports betting had a low-key launch of the Gerakan Rakyat Membantah Judi (GMJ) this afternoon at a major shopping centre.

In an ironic turn of events, a Malaysiakini journalist has lodged a police report after experiencing an ordeal that ran contrary to the Home Minister's assertions of a decline in street crimes.

All the six National Key Result Areas (NKRAs), introduced to gauge government performance, have achieved the KPI set, says Najib.

Waythamoorthy lobbies countries like Israel and Germany to grill Malaysia’s marginalisation of the Indian community.

Talk is making the rounds that the BN is attempting to wrest back Selangor by adopting the same tactics as was seen in Perak.

The move comes as Malaysia, Southeast Asia's third-largest economy, strives to counteract an export slump.

UPDATED 6.45PM Tycoon Vincent Tan has pledged to donate over half a billion ringgit to charity.

COMMENT Why is Mahathir picking on Samy, like a schoolboy bully, when we have the equally glaring case of Rajah Taib in Sarawak?

The socialist party will debate the motion along with another to condemn Pakatan's ‘BN-style campaigning methods’ in Hulu Selangor.

We have the constitution that says local government elections are permissible, and Section 15(1) of the Local Gov't Act that says they impermissable. So which is it?

Meanwhile top scorers with up to 11 'A's are rejected, allegedly due to ‘skin colour’. Disgruntled student asks, is this 1Malaysia? [VIDEO INSIDE]

Israeli forces intercepted the Irish-owned ship bound for Gaza and the vessel is being escorted to Ashdod port in Israel.

In the 1930s, American detergent companies began sponsoring radio dramas and later television serials aimed at housewives. Such "soap operas" as "Guiding Light" and "As the World Turns" shaped opinions of life in capitalist, democratic societies. But for many reasons, American soaps have faded, ceding place to telenovelas from Mexico and Brazil that have cast a spell on viewers around the globe.

Love him or hate him, his own home crowd loves him, at least for the personality he adopts in their presence.

The incoming Philippine administration of Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III is starting to take shape with a slap in the face for outgoing President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. Noynoy has appointed several members of Arroyo's administration who resigned in 2005 in anger over massive electoral irregularities in her 2004 presidential campaign.

Deep rift continues between pro and anti-whaling members of the International Whaling Commission as Australia lodged legal action in the International Court of Justice against Japanese ‘scientific’ whaling, calling for a permanent end to all whaling in the Southern Ocean, an established whale sanctuary and a critical feeding ground for the mighty mammals.

free 'What? So no evidence was adduced by the accuser when he is given an open forum to do so? Why is that, Mike?'

free 'But we are in Malaysia, where foreigners get ‘C4ed' and 14-year-old children get shot by police in self-defence.'

The new Padawan Municipal Council (MPP) chairman will be known by mid June, said Sarawak United People's Party (SUPP) president George Chan Hong Nam today.