Archive - 12 April 2011

The Sarawak CM hinted that he will be around to play the role of advisor even after resigning from his long tenure.

He said this was because many Selangor Pakatan Rakyat assemblymen were currently helping in the campaign in Sarawak.

These information had been handed over to the police last Sunday, said lawyer Ghazali Mohd Ramli.

UPDATED 8.10PM He added that the controversy over the bill could be due to some attendees not knowing the number of people at the luncheon.

UPDATED 7.16PM The two agencies appear to have set aside any misgivings arising from the recently launched 'Ops 3B'.

George Town Festival has received zero funding for activities to mark the anniversary of Penang’s Unesco World Heritage Site listing.

A cyber attack beginning at 11am today shut down Malaysiakini servers simultaneously , making the website inaccessible to readers four days ahead of the Sarawak election.

S’WAK POLLS The DAP expects this to be part of BN’s final onslaught as polling day approaches.

A faction in the family fears that CM Taib's sister Raziah and her husband is after the family's fabulous riches for themselves.

S’WAK POLLS Following Taib’s meeting with a Christian group today, Najib too has invited the group to meet with him.

Glencore is expected to kick off the much-anticipated listing in what could be the largest to-date in London and one of the largest in Europe.

PERAK ASSEMBLY Khalil Idham Lim Abdullah faces the rap for reportedly insinuating that a bomoh had been brought into the House in May 2009.

Halting illegal swiftlet breeding a Unesco requirement for declaring Georgetown a world heritage site.

S'WAK POLLS DAP says virtually all of the 30,000 soft toys have run out in towns across Sarawak.

TEOH RCI UPDATED 8.12PM ‘I was handcuffed and stripped to my underwear... my genitals were hit with a cane,’ a witness says further.

This is the first time the ranking has been invoked since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

The National Union of Journalists launches the first of three expected court battles with Utusan Malaysia over rights allegedly denied its staff.

S’WAK POLLS COMMENT Voters in the quiet town of Meradong consider local issues ahead of the polls.

PERAK ASSEMBLY Pakatan representatives say it may be a ploy to hamper their campaign for the Sarawak election.

ANALYSIS Though the prime minister has denied Taib is a liability to the BN in Sarawak, it's no secret that the chief minister's baggage will bog the campaign down.

TEOH RCI Although grilled mainly about his 'long hair', a MACC officer insists it was Teoh he saw asleep on a sofa.

It unveils a 10-year plan to strengthen capital markets and win investment, but avoided key reforms critical to help regain lost shine.

The prosecution wants the High Court to merge the trial of the four police officers with that involving a fifth officer.

Ibrahim says the government should give serious attention to the economic agenda, especially among the Malays.

Talk is circulating of a potential coup against the NUJ president over his outspoken ‘antics’.

COMMENT This public servant died while being investigated by a law enforcement agency and attempts to avoid responsibility are evident.

COMMENT Static played out in public between PM and CM suggests the date of Taib's retirement is firmer in Najib’s mind than in Taib's calculations.

The AG’s Chambers had, however, filed an appeal on March 23 over the High Court’s decision to grant leave to the Sungai Siput MP.

'Again, it's proven that the police leadership is biased in favour of the BN and a willing accessory to their underhand plotting,' says a party vice-president.

It may gain 45 percent market share by 2016.

S'WAK POLLS UPDATED 12.50PM He will not be bullied into naming a successor and a resignation date.

The Bukit Bintang PAS division has also nominated Mohamad Sabu for the deputy presidency.

It is about truth matters, not ego battles.

FREE DAY 7 Quotable quotes, planned events and unplanned incidents as they take place.

S'WAK POLLS The work done for the Orang Asli will promote Pakatan in Sarawak's rural constituencies in this election, says assemblyperson Gan Pei Nei.

S’WAK POLLS ANALYSIS While he speaks about being fair to all, she ‘exposes’ smut and scandal.

FREE VOXPOP 'The fact that Najib is bribing voters with ... money in every by-election, and now the Sarawak election, proves that he condones corruption.'

FREE YOURSAY 'How do you prove the watch is the same one in the tape? How do you prove Eskay did not steal it from Anwar?'

COMMENT Welsh examines the multitude of factors that will affect the outcome in the Sarawak state polls this Saturday.