Archive - 24 May 2011

Its leader, Khairy Jamaluddin, says savings can be found elsewhere to cover the cost of higher oil price.

It believes it will save cost, time, and energy and cut down on politicking.

MCA wants PSD to consider students for scholarship purely based on examination results.

Kuantan PKR MP Fuziah Salleh accuses LAMP of making use of ‘lax environmental laws’ unlike those enforced in Australia.

The law says Batu MP Tian Chua has the right to exhaust his legal avenues first, argues the veteran lawyer.

Malaysia will soon begin exporting durian to mainland China, which currently only buys the thorny fruit from Thailand, a minister said today.

The first batch could be announced any time after June 16, and by the middle of July at the latest.

The Umno Youth chief responds to PKR's claim he is hypocritical in calling a halt to subsidy cuts when he supported massive slashes in 2008.

The minister says Petronas forgos RM19 billion for selling gas at below the market price to the IPPs and TNB.

Mazlan Aliman shows reporters minutes from a Felda settlement panel meeting that he says provides proof of this.

The High Court will hear tomorrow an application by a woman to have a second post-mortem conducted on her teenaged son.

UPDATED 6.25PM Nazri says our 'society is mature enough to know a clown when it sees one'. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 5.35PM The minister in charge of the PSD gives his assurance the government will make sure all top-flight students get scholarships. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The first rounds of talks between DAP and Snap representatives on a the mechanics of a possible merger is said to 'look positive'. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Penang DCM is baffled over how Teng is able to predict he could win a case before even going to court.

The SUPP must revamp itself to regain popular support after its drubbing in the Sarawak election, says its president.

The government is to take over the administration of Bernama TV on June 1, Information Minister Dr Rais Yatim says.

UPDATED 5.45PM Jais breaks up a mass gathering of Shiites and detained four, in the latest action against the banned community.

Najib says such structures are exposed to the risk of landslides if they are erected contrary to guidelines.

This will preserve memories of the popular struggle for independence from colonial rule over Malaya and Singapore.

She demands answers to why upgrading works on the project are costing RM1 billion - twice the initial estimate. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 6.10PM Ong BK, who was arrested while visiting a village near Kuching, expects to be deported tonight.

Although Mahathir had agreed to attend, doctors had advised him against travelling for the moment. 

The government has decided to declare an additional public holiday this year in view of a possible overlap of public holidays.

The political cartoonist will be honoured at a gala event hosted by the Cartoonists Rights Network International.

UPDATED 1.45PM Party veep Tian Chua confirms that negotiations are still under way and the cooperation is there in the matter of goodwill.

UPDATED 7.15PM Husam Musa is going for a post he once held while Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man is gunning for No 2.

UPDATED 3.55PM PAS suspects that this is part of a BN move to create a body of ‘phantom voters’ nationwide.

The dailies move from the landslide to issues of interest to their audience, such as late marriages and ‘rubbish’ pork.

Proactive measures should be taken to ensure the low income segment does not fall into abject poverty due to the subsidy cut.

Prof Dr Zainudin Arifin says women should continue to go out and go to work, but must take precautionary measures.

Enter Roketkini - a web portal in BM to rectify issues exploited by the opposition Umno to undermine DAP's image. [VIDEO INSIDE]

 

The federal government’s move to bail out privatised water companies has removed the Selangor government’s ‘leverage’ in negotiations.

Inspiring fervour to make any religion green with envy.

Our problem is our inability to execute with excellence.

All contracts relating to subsidies for public utilities must be made public and approved by Parliament, says an MP.

The ship, after being warned off by Israeli naval forces last week, has been forced to abort its mission after engine trouble.

The human rights commission has now warned Australia its plan to send boatpeople to Malaysia could be illegal.

UPDATED 2.05PM This is denied by several figures including Eskay who is in Bangkok for a day.

FREE VOXPOP 'Umno has been accusing DAP as a racist party, so now who is racist? While DAP is openly accepting all races, Umno is still practising 1Race politics.'

FREE YOURSAY 'Khairy is slowly being edged out of Umno by an unseen hand to be replaced by the unseen hand's son.'

INTERVIEW Not being a member of any political party is among reasons which led to him being chosen as the point man.

INTERVIEW Will he go to prison again? Anwar weighs his chances after being ordered to enter his defence. [VIDEO INSIDE]