Archive - 30 January 2011

PAS will study complaints about 'selective' assistance for voters who were stuck in floods.

UPDATED 12AM Although the BN's big win in Tenang has made the coalition "more confident", its deputy chief says that more needs to be done.

DPM Muhyiddin was among those stranded together with several accompanying officials and press reporters.

The price is RM8 a kilo in K'tan, says the Rubber Industry Smallholders Development Authority.

The date of the meeting had yet to be decided, says PAS president Abdul Hadi Awang.

The real issue is that K'tan has promised to sell the shop lots at Bazar Tok Guru at a low price and of suitable size, says an Umno division leader.

This was what was heard as the voters brave the heavy downpour as they cast their ballots.

At a forum, Najib presented a strong case for Gulf investors to choose Malaysia as an investment destination.

UPDATED 9.35PM: The PKR de facto leader says he had long expected that the Padang Serai Member of Parliament would leave the party.

'They believe that the dam will have more than enough power for the whole of Borneo,' says Second Finance Minister Ahmad Husni Hanadzlah.

Among the actions to be taken was repairing and expanding clogged drains building new ones in certain areas, says CM Musa Aman.

Opposition MPs says that they will make Kuala Lumpur a better place to work and live in if they have a mandate to take over Putrajaya.

'Why are there no boats to ferry the voters in Labis town, which is also flooded, but Felda gets all the police and fire department boats?'

National Interlok Action Team says Chinese are also slighted in the book and wondering why they are silent over the issue.

He is confident that BN will win the Tenang by-election but said that the floods might affect its chances of winning big.

Its vice president Anthony Liman is urging the people, especially the younger generation, to step forward and take control of their state.

EC says there will be no extension to the polling time for those who fail to make it to cast their ballots.

The 'special position' of Malays had evolved into a privilege, then a right, then a position of ethnic hegemony.

UPDATED 1.44PM A torn RM3,000 cheque allegedly signed under the name of a village chief was found.

FREE VOXPOP 'The problem is not with the judge. It is with the prosecution.'

FREE YOURSAY 'One may withstand the blows of the police baton but still lacks the mental aptitude to withstand the challenges a politician faces.'

LIVE REPORTS Water in some places is up chest level.  [PHOTOS INSIDE]