Archive - 4 July 2011

This is the service the Election Commission promises to deliver to voters soon, through its website.

The Kedah police have detained six individuals involved with a printing company and a middle-aged couple for possession of Bersih T-shirts.

Information Communication and Culture Minister Dr Rais Yatim today won his dafamatory suit against a blogger over an article on him.

Information Communication and Culture Deputy Minister Joseph Salang Gandum said this followed an influx of websites and blogs in the Internet

The DPM says it's the right of the Agong as the Supreme Head of the Federation to advise all parties.

The veteran activist and daughter of ex-PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad says the personal attacks on the Bersih chief are immature. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Gombak MP and the state reps for Sekinchan and Sri Muda are grilled for mentioning Bersih 2.0 at their ceramah.

UPDATED 6.10PM The premier also says the government has ‘many programmes’ to address long-standing and new issues that the community faces.

Deputy public prosecutor Ishak Mohd Yusoff says the evidence was based on the findings of the victims’ DNA on the exhibits.

UPDATED 7.14PM But he apparently misjudged the distance from Level 3 to Level 1, an inquest was told today.

UPDATED 6.25PM Police only agreed to consider the counsels' demand to meet the PSM members detained under the Emergency Ordinance tomorrow.

The police have begun investigations into an allegation that the Bersih leader used a local bank account to receive foreign funds.

Food inflation rate fell to 4.6 per cent in May, compared to 4.9 per cent in the previous month, deputy minister Tan Lian Hoe says.

DAP's Chong Chieng Jen ridicules appointment of Larry Sng, who was sacked by BN component Parti Rakyat Sarawak, as adviser on youth affairs.

COMMENT If Jabu doesn’t have any idea how to eradicate the poverty problems of the rural people, it’s time for him to step down.

UPDATED 6PM The Malay rights group head qualifies this by saying the exco will make a final decision on Wednesday.

UPDATED 7.25PM Umno Youth says they'll respect the Agong's call, unless Bersih insists on proceeding.

UPDATED 4.30PM If the Bersih 2.0 secures an audience with the Agong, Pakatan wants to be part of the delegation.

The defence minister was commenting on the prospect of the armed forces intervening to help police control the planned July 9 assembly.

Depending on royal advice, the NGO coalition will decide whether or not to proceed with the rally on Saturday. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 7.10PM Twenty-four PSM activists, including a minor, were charged with participating in an unlawful organisation.

COMMENT So what is wrong with asking for free and fair elections, and the ridding of rampant corruption?

Two projects this year will kick off an extensive 1Malaysia-linked affordable housing programme in and around the Klang Valley.

UPDATED 6.44PM Customs officer Ahmad Sarbani Mohamad was 'a calm and collected man', says his widow.

The Alor Setar police invoked Section 112 of the Penal Code to get details of an event on Saturday, when 14 activists were held.

UPDATED 4.40PM Bersih 2.0 says that as a temporary coalition of registered bodies, it does not require ROS approval. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Neither of them have learned their lessons.

UPDATED 4.50PM They are among the latest to be arrested for possession of Bersih T-shirts.

UPDATED 1.48PM 'I hope Bersih will consider seeking an audience with Tuanku to show the flaws and fraud of the EC,' says the Opposition Leader.

UPDATED 2.05PM S Manikavasagam says he was not distributing any Bersih leaflets or T-shirts when he was arrested.

Moronic statements are fodder for MSM.

The PM says the planned rally by electoral reform group Bersih on July 9 is not a good way to find a solution.

But PSM leaders say the ordeal of members will only make the party stronger in its struggle for justice and fairness.

Sabahan Yong Vui Kong, 21, is on death row in S'pore for drug trafficking. Malaysiakini is publishing his final letters.

FREE VOXPOP 'Most, if not all, professors and top intellectuals in our universities choose to keep mum for fear of jeopardising their rice bowl.'

FREE VOXPOP 'The police can keep on hounding those who wear yellow, but it cannot win the hearts of the common people who will decide BN's fate.'

COMMENT The palace statement has behooved all parties to the July marches to simultaneously backpedal from their frontal positions.

FREE YOURSAY 'This is a way out for both parties to withdraw gracefully to fight another day.'

FREE YOURSAY 'If Bersih 2.0 backs down, the Agong must ensure BN stop abusing the electoral system.'