Archive - 28 October 2010

"The moment you get a government that is led by the nose, you're going to wreck your own country," said the CM.

PARLIAMENT She spent RM1.67 million on overseas trips last year and RM1.58 million in first 10 months of this year.

Apparently the family has instructed the hospital authorities not to divulge any information about the former Penang CM.

ANALYSIS The three contesting parties look to be employing different tactics as they deal with the varied responses from Batu Sapi constituents.

Dr Razali made the startling revelation when he was being cross-examined by defence lawyer Sankara Nair.

Speaker Pandikar Amin Mulia denies the motion as it was related to land matters which are under the state government.

Karpal has sought to raise doubts over Saiful’s medical report, which was prepared by three HKL doctors.

GALAS BN adopts a busy, high energy approach while PAS continue at a  sedate pace and a wait-and-see attitude.

Alice in wonderland army project has opposition MP scratching his head and demanding answers from the prime minister for the long wait.

Deputy Miti Minister says that there is no necessity for it to be debated in Parliament as the FTA only needs cabinet approval.

UPDATED 6.05PM Bullet casings from another H&K MP5 submachine gun was found at the scene where teenager Aminulrasyid Hamzah was killed.

Perkasa Youth threatens to organise a demonstration to protest the plan.

Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) will take pre-emptive action to avoid asset bubbles but has no intention to entail restrictions on genuine housebuyers taking up mortgages, governor Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz said today.

BATU SAPI Ansari Abdullah's debate challenge was swatted aside by Yong Teck Lee, who dared CM Musa Aman to a one-on-one match.

The construction of the hospital could take 30 months if re-tendered. But a former sub-con says he could do it in 18 months.

MCA president says a video clip of an Umno division leader’s speech does not represent Umno’s mainstream view. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The elder went for getting rid of poverty and restructuring Malay society but the junior appears to be all for globalisation and what it entails.

Seized logbooks from a wildlife trafficking syndicate show it killed and trafficked 22,200 pangolins in Malaysia between 2007 and 2009.

While the score was not quite a case for celebration, the minister said it need not be seen as negative development.

They say Najib's entertainment hub plan is ‘fundamentally wrong’ but the issue should be thrashed out away from public glare.

Penang, wearing a friendly mask, is inviting the EC to thrash it out in the federal court to find out if they will be ever reinstituted.

The visit of Indian Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to Kuala Lumpur, and the twin disasters in Indonesia, were highlighted in the dailies.

BATU SAPI If voters are truly concerned about Linda Tsen, they should not vote for her and let her tend to her grieving family, said PKR.

COMMENT Society needs to know that the gay rights movement is about everyone; homosexuality is an issue of social justice.

The students, who bring along food and medical supplies, also offer health examination services to the victims.

It claims that opposition MPs in Perak have not received the annual allocations entitled to MPs for their constituencies for the past three years.

Yet DAP sides with strong majority, not the weak.

Even 23 years after being detained under the ISA, the memories still live in Nasir Hashim's mind.

GALAS BN candidate Abdul Aziz Yusoff makes a smooth transition from public servant to aspiring servant of the people, but is it too smooth?

All citizens must act in the war against this evil.

Aminulrasyid Amzah, who died four months shy of his 15th birthday, was not shot at close range.

LIVE BLOG Quotable quotes, planned events and unplanned incidences as they occur.

UPDATED 11.05AM The two had submitted that the two top police officers had in 2009 committed contempt of court by failing to comply with their release orders.

Taufiq Marzuki, 29, a member of the Islamist KMA, was arrested on Sept 29 after fleeing Indonesia following a police raid earlier this year.

COMMENT A debate over whether to include Suharto in Indonesia's list of national heroes will have resonances for ours.  

LIVE REPORTS Karpal hounds Dr Razali on why he was reluctant to refer to his clinical examination notes, leading to the judge calling the lot to his chambers twice.

BATU SAPI The mitts are off as the opposition parties take the fight to each other in the bid to win Batu Sapi.

FREE 'He defended the cow-head goons, but cannot defend a witness from being abused by the police or even reprimand the police for abusing a witness.'

FREE 'Doctor, why are you so afraid to look into your own notes? You give the impression that you have a lot of things to hide by being evasive.'