Archive - 28 March 2011

A Muslim pressure group has threatened to pull out of a interfaith panel due to Christian reaction to the Al Kitab row.

The Bukit Gelugor MP differs with the state legal adviser, and says the activity comes under federal law that allows its sale.

Former Kuala Lumpur CID chief Mat Zain Ibrahim points to a history of bad blood between the key figures linked to the new scandal.

Opposition heads snipe at the former finance minister, saying he departed from the post under questionable circumstances. [VIDEO INSIDE]

TEOH RCI UPDATED 8.20PM Bar Council lawyer queries differing statements made by MACC officer to internal probe panel and to the RCI.

S’WAK POLLS The opposition leader’s first stop will be a public rally in Kuching scheduled for tomorrow evening.

Someone else is using his name and identity card number - and he wants the authorities to put a stop to this.

Land Public Transport Commission defends decision to award RM36 billion Klang Valley Mass Rail Transit (MRT) project to MMC-Gamuda JV Sdn Bhd.

The Transport Ministry has put forward his name as the new chairperson, but the power to appoint him rests with the King.

A coalition of Islamic groups claims that widespread slander will only result in confusion among the Muslim community.

In his tirade against reckless drivers, the Kinabatangan MP says women drivers are ‘especially' guilty of disregarding traffic rules.

So says a Penang PKR leader, describing the latest ‘resignation’ as nothing more than ‘cheap theatrics’.

The rebels' pursuit of Gaddafi forces saw them wrest back control of key oil town Ras Lanuf and press on as far as Nofilia.

The partial meltdown of spent fuel rods was believed to be temporary at reactor 2 at the six-reactor plant in Fukushima.

The Government Transformation Programme hogs the headlines, with a listing of indicators of its success.

S'WAK POLLS UPDATED 5.10PM It has agreed on allocations for 48 seats, but 23 overlapping claims between PKR and Snap remain. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The Shah Alam Sessions Court fixed April 25 for a remention of Sri Muda assemblyman Shuhaimi Shafiei's sedition case.

The digital newspaper is helmed by NUJ president Hata Wahari who hopes to make it "the answer to press freedom in Malaysia".

The proposed Malaysian Media Council cannot be set up yet due to differences in opinion among media practitioners in the country, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

S'WAK POLLS The Election Commission has set up 80 special monitoring teams for the election, with two assigned to the nine 'hot seat' areas.

The aim is to distract us from Sarawak.

PARLIAMENT The MQL index is based on quantitative values and more concrete compared to the GWB index which is based on perception.

UPDATED 4.55PM It raided the office of DAP's Shah Alam city councillor Ang Leng Kiat and carted away 50 boxes of documents.

He, Saari Sungib and Amirudin Shari will then have to answer for last Friday's unruly ceramah , when three supporters were arrested.

The exposure of the sex video, it says, has made it the 'mother of all moral scandals'.

Tuanku Sharafuddin Idris Shah says state civil servants should remember that they are the first line in implementing state policies.

The PBB leader says that PKR and Snap were not likely to give problems to BN candidates in the rural bumiputera majority seats.

TEOH RCI UPDATED 2.25 The agency will be seen as acting in a 'much more rough' manner if it uses a warrant, says deputy commissioner Mohd Shukri Abdull.

S'WAK FOCUS Will it be religion or development that influences voters? Political analysts consider the odds.   

COMMENT It would seem that try their damndest as they are wont, Umno cannot slay the beast.

UPDATED 2.25PM The court found that an element of negligence has been admitted.

FREE YOURSAY 'So there is no need for apology from anyone. MCA will always be loyal to Umno. Nazri can carry on belittling them, because he knows.'

FREE VOXPOP 'It is about time that an ulama says his piece to keep in check all these dirty politicians in our midst, masquerading as pious leaders.'

FREE YOURSAY 'The fact that all these expired Umno politicians are resurfacing one by one to attack Anwar is because they fear spending the rest of their lives in prison.'

S'WAK POLLS After numerous rounds of intense negotiations, DAP is understood to have reached an electoral pact with PKR.