Archive - 19 April 2011

The crimes comprised dissemination of lies, misuse of information, defamation, sedition and pornography.

TEOH RCI UPDATED 8.43PM A businessman says money that contractors had paid to DAP was for the advance that the party had forked out earlier.

UPDATED 9PM Tricubes Bhd, which has been awarded the RM50 million contract to launch the 1Malaysia email service, is a financially troubled company.

Azizan Razak says statements on the matter made by Mukhriz Mahathir and UUM Vice-Chancellor Prof Mohamed Mustafa Ishak were inaccurate.

MCA president Chua Soi Lek maintains his stand on SUPP, saying his party would do the same, ‘next time’.

This is for the purposes of accelerating the Iban-Dayak 'political awakening' following last Saturday’s state polls, says the veteran MP.

If the Kedah government does not do so, the university will have to pay RM1.2 million instead of RM100,000 a year.

The Sarawak party says it did not recommend Wong Soon Koh for a post in the state cabinet.

The government wants to provide an email account for official purposes to every Malaysian aged 18 and above.

This is interference by the authorities not related to the administration of the university, says the senator. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 5.55PM He says it would be unfair of the police to charge him with distributing a sex video.

Candidates will have a minimum of nine days to campaign, with polls to take place after a one-day 'cooling-off' period.

The home minister also cautions against pointing a finger at any one publisher for pushing a communal agenda.

Email alleges corrupt practices in MPPP regarding the piece of land bought for RM1 and intended for a hawker centre.

MCA has called on SUPP not to accept any position in the cabinet as the party had lost Chinese's support.

This event at Teluk Cempaka Beach in Kuantan on May 8 is organised by the 1M Malaysians Reject the 100-storey Mega Tower Facebook group.

It has rejected a question on excessive logging in Sarawak, on the basis that this concerns ‘state matters’.

The PM's brother's firm denies conflict of interest in handling the design of the mosque that Najib says will get RM20 mil.

PM unveils seven all-new projects today to further strengthen the continued interest of investors in the Economic Transformation Programme.

COMMENT It would pay to keep an eye on emerging issues linked to rapid urbanisation in the state across the South China Sea.

ANALYSIS The size of the swing is hard to estimate as there is no area in Miri with a super majority of bumi voters.

If the cause is just, they can be counted on.

UM Centre of Addiction Sciences said cases of addiction increased from 50 to 70 when it began a study on Facebook in 2009.

Not only will British billionaire Richard Branson dress and serve as a stewardess on AirAsia X on May 1, but you can shave his legs - for a price.

Good ideas are hardly enough.

COMMENT The Chinese swing toward Pakatan is comparatively less than the changes within other communities.

The plant is unpopular among locals, some of whom have pledged to fight until it is scrapped. [VIDEO INSIDE]

COMMENT The nuclear industry has had a long history of cover-ups and downright deception.

Rookie Ling Sie Kong caused the most stunning upset of the Sarawak election, taking out SUPP president Dr George Chan.

Bukit Aman CID director Mohd Bakri Mohd Zinin said this was to verify whether Raja Petra's claim was true.

Md Azar Irwan Mohd Arifin is ordered to make his defence against a charge of reducing the charges against three drug suspects.

COMMENT At the height of the Sarawak election campaign, I received an email from a young Malaysiakini reader.