Archive - 25 March 2011

UPDATED 1.55AM Policemen charge in to prevent him from speaking for more than 15 minutes. [VIDEOS INSIDE]

Kita president Zaid Ibrahim said he made a request to view the sex video and said he was willing to face police investigations.

Introducing new faces alone will not be enough for BN to recapture urban seats that it lost to the opposition in Sarawak,say analysts.

A bodyguard connects the dots between a physiotherapist for VIPs, a Risda top official and an ex-senator who calls themselves 'Datuk T'.

Police say the investigation at the scene has been carried out together with a police forensic team after receiving information.

Lead counsel CV Prabhakaran says the lawyers and Eskay decided not to call the opposition leader for this case.

He said there was no basis for the allegations of certain quarters that he was trying to seize land from the people.

The consumer price index (CPI) in February rose by 2.9 percent from a year ago, higher than expectations and its fastest pace in almost two years.

SARAWAK POLLS PKR, DAP are haggling over three seats that Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian says Anwar Ibrahim and Lim Kit Siang are striving to resolve.

UPDATED 7.20PM An ex-bodyguard claims Eskay is sore with Anwar because the latter refuses to be a witness in a lawsuit.

Telekom Malaysia and mobile operator Axiata have barred a French equipment giant from bidding for new tenders for a year.

He says the opposition parties are tasting their own medicine now with their quarrel over electoral seats.

UPDATED 6.15PM Its chief, Shamsul Iskandar Mohd Akin, leads a group of 40 demonstrators who gathered in front of the Masjid Jamek today.

UPDATED 9.10PM Rahim and Shazryl deny being arrested, while Shuib was brought from Sg Petani to Bukit Aman.

TEOH RCI MACC's Mohd Nazri says Teoh gave monosyllable replies to questions, but he recorded them in full sentences.

MCCBCHST is worried that the government’s attitude in the Al-Kitab row means other minority faiths are at risk.

The Umno supreme council member wanted MIC to give up all six state seats in Perak which it had lost in the last general election.

UPDATED 4.49PM The duo are linked to the video clip which depicted a man said to look like a top opposition leader having sex with a woman.

Will it smell as good 10 years from now?

The Interlok row, the continuing sex video saga and the Sarawak election make up much of the headlines in today's newspapers.

Logger Lee Sin lodges police report against MB Adnan Yaakob and Bentong Umno secretary Shamsudin Ibrahim.

The NGO ended ties after getting info about the S'wak party receiving funds from BN, says MCLM president Haris Ibrahim.

Police are investigating a shooting incident in Penang after unknown assailants fired a number of shots at a row of terrace houses and cars.

COMMENT The time has come for a world better equipped in all senses to deal with disasters like this latest heartbreaking tragedy.

SARAWAK POLLS With nominations set for April 6, speculation now centres on the candidates, especially new faces.

S'WAK FOCUS The signs are that time is running out for the 52-year-old party. Can it shrug off its 2006 fall?

Senior lawyer Kong Hong Ming says this could also be in the form of equivalent state land or monetary compensation.

SARAWAK POLLS Two-term Sarawak MP Alexander Nanta Linggi says neither side can claim to have the support of youth voters.

COMMENT In Dr M's era, a person needed a great deal of courage to defend his or her convictions.

He says the novel is a form of cultural imperialism aimed at getting subject peoples to be acquiescent and subordinate. [VIDEO INSIDE]

FREE VOXPOP 'She has suffered a lifetime's agony in 10 years just because of the porn dramas dished out by Umno...'

FREE YOURSAY 'If it was the other side of the political divide, the three would be arrested the day the video was screened in Carcosa.'

FREE YOURSAY 'If these jokers are sure that Anwar is the man in the video, they could have just uploaded it on the Internet or make VCD copies and distributed them.'