Archive - 21 November 2010

Meanwhile during the home minister’s Kuching trip his special officer makes a splash by plunging into the water, Ansari style.

UPDATE 11.24PM At the state Pakatan convention Lim adds that they will not bow to the unruly and violent behaviour of BN leaders.

The nation incurs billions of ringgit in losses each year due to road accidents with the rate increasing every year, says the Transport Minister.   

The Penang CM blasts Kong for placing the interest of the contractor over that of the people in the stop-work order row.

The S'gor government has close to 900 signatures in its online petition to return the rights from private concessionaires back to the state.

DAP vice-president M Kulasegaran today asked his supporters, especially Indian members in the party, not to protest against his defeat in the elections held at the Perak DAP Convention last Sunday.  

The government is confident of the People's Volunteer Corps (Rela) achieving its target of getting 2.6 million members by end of the year.  

The bureau comes under the Combined Vision of the Felda Generation and will tackle Felda settlers' problems.

EXCLUSIVE Outgoing deputy president Syed Husin Ali says the severity of the PKR contest for No 2 came a big surprise.

UPDATED 10.50PM Police had to be called in to quell tensions while fresh allegations of leaked ballot papers plague the final round of polling.

They were in a kneeling position and shot once in the head and again in the chest at close range, says lawyer N Surendran.

 

Ng Wei Aik condemned the protestors’ behaviour as ‘more violent than the ISA itself’.

'On that particular day, I will also announce what my plans are after I step down as president,' says the MIC chief of 30 years.

Tomorrow the judge will deliver his decision whether to grant the defence access to the doctors' clinical notes on Saiful Bukhari Azlan.

Penang CM Lim Guan Eng wants Culture Minister Rais Yatim to prove Malacca is more proactive than Penang in promoting heritage conservation.

 

Which part of 'non-government organisation' does BN not understand? asks the National National Muslim Students Association.

Special assistant Phillip Among sent in his resignation yesterday but denied that he had any plans to join any BN component party.

UPDATED 2.55 Penang Umno Youth and KMA say the ISA is used on 'traitors' such as Pakatan. [VIDEO INSIDE]

A new problem has emerged - the negative perception towards crime prevention, says Malaysian Crime Prevention Foundation's Lee Lam Thye.

FREE VOXPOP 'Zaid's loss is only a cabinet post - and he is still as rich as before. As for Syed Husin - he lost six precious years in detention under ISA.'

FREE YOURSAY 'The fight will be between Umno-BN and Pakatan, and the likes of Zaid won't make a difference.'

FREE VOXPOP 'The quality of the students in our schools is reflective of the quality of our political leadership.'

In efforts to overcome the shortage of medical officers in the country, the government is hiring more doctors from abroad, including from Egypt and Pakistan, to work in government hospitals on a contract basis, said Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai.

The recent murder of a young Malaysian woman and her two children in South India was linked to revenge arising out of a long drawn-out local gang war, Tamil Nadu police investigations have revealed.