Archive - 29 April 2011

Najib Abdul Razak said that neither the government nor Umno had anything to do with businessman Shazryl Eskay Abdullah taking a religious oath today.

Party president Dr Chua Soi Lek says this is to reflect the spirit of democracy by letting the people choose their desired government.

The Perak government has cancelled the MoU between its state investment arm with a Hong Kong company on plans to mine for rare earth in Bukit Merah.

Penang opposition leader Azhar Ibrahim was admitted to the Island Hospital in Penang for heart failure.

Unfortunately, enthusiasm was one thing but the competency to translate that was another, says the PM.

As the party CWC bulldozes with readmitting sacked members particularly from GAS, a report has been lodged with the Registrar.

World Bank report notes that Malaysia fails to grasp billions in potential FDI over the past few years.

Southeast Asia's largest budget carrier says it will impose fuel surcharges beginning May 3 to offset escalating jet fuel prices.

Mat Sabu urges Ahmad Sarbani's family to abandon community sense of resignation, instead adopt the Chinese spirit of going for justice.

UPDATED 8.45PM However, Port Klang rep’s lawyer Mohd Hafarizam Harun is found guilty of lying and threatening the speaker.

It has accepted a RM5.1 billion takeover deal from Hong Leong Bank that will create Malaysia's fourth largest lender.

UPDATED 7.10PM He arrives along with ‘Datuk T’ associates Rahim and Shuib - all three clad in bullet-proof vests. [VIDEO INSIDE]

PM says the radical move is following a World Bank analysis that has found that the SMEs still need to have too many licences to run their businesses.

The most crucial actor is across the seas in Jakarta.

The polls watchdog called on Sabahans and Sarawakians to push for an overhaul in the postal vote system.

The party slams the MCA boss for ‘challenging’ PKR to amend the constitution and abolish Malay rights. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The suddenness of the China MOU to tackle Penang's traffic woes has some wondering how this adheres to the state’s CAT principles.

Election watchdog Bersih 2.0 charges them with failing to defend the citizens' right to a free and fair election in the Sarawak polls.

Party leaders claim the police are going around town claiming that Anwar is the man in the video. [VIDEO INSIDE]

It is on track in achieving its objective to increase the bumiputera equity value in the first year in operations by RM483.2 million, Najib says.

UPDATED 4.03PM A crowd at the Masjid Amru al-As in Sentul chants ‘there is no God but Allah’ in the main hall. [PHOTOS & VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 5.20PM PAS deputy president aspirant Mohamad Sabu feels the Islamist party should continue to remain with Pakatan whatever happens to Anwar.

UPDATED 3.15PM Norsiah Mohamad lodges report demanding a retraction from the deputy IGP. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 7.25PM Prince William and Kate Middleton married today, to be watched by two billion global TV viewers.

The oath-taking by the accuser in the sex video fiasco scheduled for today as well as the China-Malaysia bilateral pacts, grabbed the headlines.

 

The idea of one such party cropped up following the debacle faced by SUPP after losing all but six of the 19 seats it contested.

Wong Soon Koh or his party can be accused of breaking the law, says Sarawak DAP secretary-general Chong Chieng Jen.

INTERVIEW The upheavals in the Middle East seem to have send out mixed signals to other parts of the world.

Let the members decide, respond party leaders to George Chan’s call for cardiologist Sim Kui Hian to take over from him.

FREE YOURSAY 'Najib talks about going 'glocal' and Pak Lah talked about creating 'towering' Malaysians. How on earth are the students supposed to do this?'

FREE VOXPOP 'Strange that this should happen in Malaysia where there are millions of citizens of Chinese ethnicity.'

FREE YOURSAY 'All talk about protecting Islam and the Muslims from immorality is just a cover to maintain political power.'

FREE YOURSAY 'What can your swearing prove? You claim that you're not religious, why bring religion into this.'

After two mild 'teasers', four new clips with explicit sex scenes emerge.