Archive - 24 February 2011

'I urge both sides, work towards the best interets of both the university and students,' Muhyiddin says.

Muhyiddin says Hindraf have been banned and using or championing its name is in itself an offence.

UPDATED 12.15AM In Kerdau, PAS is fielding the same candidate that lost the contest for the seat in 2008 but fields a greenhorn in Merlimau.

The Libyan autocrat blames a revolt against his rule on the al-Qaeda leade and says that as the leader he only has 'moral authority'.

UPDATED 8.14PM SODOMY II High Court is shown images of seven cars arriving at and leaving the condo.

The party alleges that Pahang Umno is trying to bribe five PKR divisional leaders to quit the party ahead of the Kerdau by-election.

MERLIMAU One such leaflet, bearing the Perkasa logo, accuses Chinese of being 'traitors' to the country.

ANALYSIS After a string of losses, the party may be reaching a defining moment in the Kerdau polls, appearing to be caught in a bind.

Vietnam has cancelled a RM30 bil joint steel project between troubled state shipping company Vinashin and Lion Group.

Teng Chang Khim is arguing that the court cannot rule on the Port Klang 'vacancy' without his lawyers present.

KERDAU Syed Ibrahim Syed Ahmad is being accused of lying about his qualification and buying his degree from the Al-Azhar University.

Prominent social scientist Lim Teck Ghee says no use limiting novel review to parts deemed offensive, as "sum total of the book needs to be rejected".

 

SODOMY II The supplier and manufacturer, Applied Biosystem Sdn Bhd, had ceased operations in Malaysia since 2005.

A Chinese school rejects a sponsorship deal offering free copies of the Malay daily on concerns over its content.

'So far the situation can be handled without raising the price of RON 95 and diesel,' says the domestic trade minister.

However, the Human Rights Party is putting its faith in the constitution and will go on with its peaceful event on Sunday.

This follows the securing of forensics expert Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand to assist the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Teoh Beng Hock’s death.

UPDATED 8.10PM TEOH RCI Conducting officers ordered to put in a claim to MACC to retrieve the list of persons at Plaza Masalam on July 15, 2009.

UPDATED 10.23PM On the contrary, the deputy minister says, he only gave his views on “the best way to deal with the issue”.

Johnny-come-lately Kesejahteraan Insan Tanah Air (Kita) announced that it is eyeing rapid, but cautious, expansion.

KERDAU The menteri besar said in jest that he is willing to help PAS put up posters on the hand gesture atop trees.

The magistrate’s court in Banting today ordered the case of four people charged with the murder of Sosilawati Lawiya tranferred to the high court.

On Jan 24, author Kim Quek and the publisher received permission from the court for a judicial review to challenge the order.

Court sets March 22 to hear the application to be the intervener and to be named as the second defendant in the suit.

Pakatan leaders invite the people to join them after Friday prayers to protest against the brutal killings of civilians by their dictator Gaddafi.

It believes priority must be on making the voting process as transparent as possible to minimise vote fraud and manipulation.

Sarawak's indigenous people are getting more than just a little help from the process of globalisation, and it appears to be unstoppable.

The chairperson of the committee to promote inter-religious understanding dies after struggling against breast cancer for the past five years.

The solution to the food crisis is building farming communities.

News coverages of both the government and opposition ahead of the coming Sarawak election must be accurate, says deputy CM.

The mountain of 18 million unpaid traffic summonses was one of the mixed bag of items in the news today.

UPDATED 1.20PM Kita leader Zaid Ibrahim announces this at a press conference with Tan Tee Beng in PJ today. [VIDEO INSIDE]

MERLIMAU Umno is bursting with confidence that it's going to win this round hands down, conscious, however, that the spoiler could be the majority.

LIVE REPORTS SODOMY II The defence, however, objects on grounds that they were not given a copy of the hard disks nor the notes that a witness had referred to.

There is no guarantee that those who signed up for the EGM will turn up and vote for the postponement.

FREE VOXPOP Looks like Zairil Khir Johari's appointment was made solely on account of his race. DAP is now using race politics to entice Malays.

FREE YOURSAY They looked everywhere for the strands of hair in Anwar's sodomy case.They picked up everything, but in TBH's case, police ignored the evidence in front of them.

As such, there is no need for any quarters to seek to follow in the footsteps of the popular revolts in some Arab countries, says Rais Yatim.