Archive - 5 July 2010

The history of Southeast Asia may need a rewrite with the new findings on the Bujang Valley civilisation in Kedah, an Oxford University professor said today.

PKR faces the risk of legal action being taken against the party if it continues publishing Suara Keadilan whose publication permit has expired.

Muhyiddin Yassin reminded the Malays that they face the possibility of losing political power if they continue to be divided.

The malaria outbreak in 15 Penan settlements in Ulu Baram is under control, Deputy Chief Minister Dr George Chan said today.

Malaysian police would seek the cooperation of Interpol and arrest the fugitive blogger according to the legal procedures.

MCA boss Dr Chua Soi Lek said that he needs six months to a year to stabilise the party.

The Higher Education Ministry will study the proposal to offer permanent resident (PR) status to skilled, creative foreign students.

PAS Titi Serong assemblyperson is taking the former DAP member to task for denying he borrowed money to bail out his car.

By allowing Umno to dictate the rejection of the sports betting licence, BN component parties look subservient to Umno, says MCA president Chua Soi Lek.

The senator says his evidence will show that the two were ‘evil manipulative elements’ out to undermine the royal institution.

The Puchong MP says the lack of action over an auxiliary police officer who allegedly ran down a four-year-old is making the public edgy.

The recommencement of Anwar Ibrahim’s Sodomy II trail at the Kuala Lumpur High Court has been postponed from July 14, 2010 to July 19, 2010.

MCA will step up its publicity campaign by countering the opposition's allegations and slander through the new media, said
the president.

The Foreign Affairs Ministry agrees to engage Singapore through diplomatic channels to plead for clemency for a Malaysian on death row.

Two men, one of them the son of a former Perlis mufti, were given the green light today to challenge the NS Syariah Criminal Enactment.

Worse, says Gobind Singh, the government seems unaware of the problem highlighted by a UN working group. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Turkey will sever diplomatic ties with Israel unless it apologises over the commando raid on an aid convoy to Gaza in which nine Turks died, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was quoted as saying Monday.

UPDATED 6.30PM Selangor PKR assemblyperson Shuhaimi Shafie has been recalled by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) over the illegal sand-mining controversy.

The opposition takes its fight overseas with the launch of Friends for Pakatan Rakyat club in London yesterday.

The most important stakeholders should not be forgotten in the govt's upcoming meeting with MBs and CMs on the issue of Orang Asli land ownership .

Petaling Jaya Utara parliamentarian Tony Pua takes the government to task for allegedly milking the national oil company dry.

The deputy minister wants to plug rampant fraud in statutory declarations (SD) by holding commissioners of oaths liable.

Ambrin Buang said there are indications that fraud cases in corporate Malaysia are rising.

‘We will still continue with our publication and we are not going to stop,’ says PKR director of strategy Tian Chua.

Having been slapped with a few suits by celebrities, including  Zahnita, Gulatis has filed a suit against the model for slander.

Pahang CPO said state youth and sports committee chairperson Wan Adnan Wan Mamat and his family and two maids were unhurt.

COMMENT While 190 countries fight for attention with exciting and inventive multi-media efforts, Malaysia's resembles a night market peddling products like tongkat ali coffee.

He asks why the police have failed to apprehend the 'fugitive', who is prancing around the British capital. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The chief editor has been rapped over a headline, but no further action will be taken against the Perkasa official organ.

NEP, the root of corruption, must first go.

EXCLUSIVE ‘We specialise in conducting elections... we can’t do everything,’ says the Election Commission head, against criticism that the EC is toothless and incompetent. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Today’s headlines include the PM’s call for teamwork in Umno and police to probe claims that PKR is sponsoring Raja Petra Kamaruddin.

Authorities at New York's John F Kennedy International Airport briefly evacuated one of its airport terminals after a bomb scare on one of the busiest US holiday travel days.

Will it be sufficient to ensure Khalid’s survival as Selangor MB in the next six months or so?

free 'It is very unethical of Samy Vellu to send his gangsters to disrupt the gathering in support of GAS 2. This shows how afraid Samy Vellu is of GAS.'

free 'Political affiliation has nothing to do with unity. Are Americans disunited because some support Republicans and some support Democrats?'

Security forces fanned out across China's Urumqi city on Monday, the first anniversary of deadly unrest that laid bare deep-seated ethnic tensions in the country's far-western Xinjiang region.

Two French ministers resigned Sunday after rows over the spending of thousands of euros of taxpayers' money on a private jet and cigars at a time when budget cuts are hitting the public.