Archive - 18 March 2011

For a start, the NRD will issue red birth certificates for children who are non-citizens.

The Kedah-born factory interpreter described it as a most horrific experience which would not easily be forgotten.

He has urged the Christian community to compromise over the government stamp and serial number on the Al Kitab.

Event is to bring awareness of Pakatan’s 100-day programme, says FT Youth chief Syed Hamzah Syed Zainal Abinden.

'The reactors are kind of like a coffee maker. If you leave it on the heat, they boil dry and then they crack.'

One of the panellists, Uthaya Shankar SB, denies that the trio have agreed to continue working on resolving the issue.

Lynas’s forecast is a more than nine-fold increase from earlier projections of RM 880 million in 2009.

UPDATED 11.50PM The science minister said the cabinet did not discuss its position on the construction of two nuclear power plants when it met today.

COMMENT After almost a decade of inactivity the party now appears to be relishing its role as a possible key factor in the coming state polls.

PKR and DAP announce that they have entered ‘battle mode’ and are completely unaffected by the possible earlier dissolution.

Menteri Besar Khalid Ibrahim says he signed a 24-hour notice on Feb 18 terminating the service of Mohd Saifulruddin Sulaiman.

He said the opposition was lying when it claimed that there was still a close police watch over the state assembly sitting.

MIC president G Palanivel said he will discuss with Prime Minister Najib Razak the position of T Murugiah whose term as senator ends on April 18.

Its new compact model will feature the latest, more stylish and sporty design.

CM Abdul Taib Mahmud said today that he will make an announcement on the state election tomorrow.

Human beings need to be acknowledged.

The Catholic bishop lauds the call by PAS Ulama Council for the release of impounded copies of Al-Kitab.

Home Ministry's reprimand letters send shivers into editorial floors of  local dailies as press control tightens with looming Sarawak polls.

Detained at a roadblock earlier this week, he is accused of escaping from the drug rehabilitation centre in Bentong eight years ago.

COMMENT The concession to delete the word ‘pariah’ is like slicing off one tentacle from a hundred-headed hydra.

Christian leaders may raise a case against the Home Ministry for its decision to stamp a disclaimer on the Malay-language Bible.

UPDATED 5.10PM Pua said the defence minister had claimed the PJ Utara MP was once arrested in Singapore.

COMMENT Will the revelations made at the RCI help us arrive at the truth and bring justice to Teoh and his family?

The escalating nuclear crisis in Japan still hogs the headlines in the newspapers today.

COMMENT Reactions to his memoirs throw up an old saw: opinions are free but the facts on which to base them are not.

Former MACC advisory panel member Robert Phang has again called on AG Gani Patail to explain his haj pilgrimage.

UPDATED 8.41PM The graft watchdog wants MACC, Securities Commission and Bank Negara to probe S'wak CM Taib Mahmud. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Nazri' s claim that Malaysians abroad do not love the country is hurtful, disrespectful and out of touch with reality.

They applaud the release of copies of the Bible in the Malay language, without knowing the conditions set.

COMMENT Peninsular Malaysia-based political parties, across both sides of the divide, are driving Sabahans and Sarawakians up the wall.

FREE VOXPOP 'Muhyiddin claims that they were minor. Who should know better how to spell words on Indian ceremonial matters - non-Indians or Indians?'

FREE YOURSAY 'They don't fear the danger of radioactive material spilling all over Malaysia, but treat the Bibles as if they contain radioactive particles.'

FREE YOURSAY 'Your choice of language is a far cry from the type of upbringing and education you had. Referring to the Al Kitab as smelly is not proper.'

UPDATED 2.36AM This will mean abandoning the reactors and burying them in concrete.