Archive - 7 July 2011

Assistant superintendent Kamal Awang Besar said he seemed normal, there was nothing amiss about him.

The High Court will decide on Monday whether a government body can sue for defamation in a suit by the Federal Land Development Authority (Felda) and its investment company against former deputy land and cooperatives minister Dr Tan Kee Kwong.

Two police reports filed today claim top cops in Kuala Lumpur and Selangor were irresponsible in linking Bersih 2.0 to a recent weapons seizure.

S'wak PKR Youth sec Zulhaidah Suboh pleaded not guilty at the Miri Magistrate's Court to two charges.

Perkasa submitted a request to police today to hold a rally at Stadium Titiwangsa on Saturday.

S Raveen Tharan says the proposed suit is over an ex-parte order obtained by the cops to halt two state gov’t functions.

UPDATED 6.30PM Acting senior manager at Perhentian Pudu Ismail Hassan says the management has been asked to reroute its buses to Perhentian Duta.

UPDATED 6.25PM Ismail Omar suggests Melawati Stadium, but says Bersih 2.0 chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan had rejected his offer.

UPDATED 6.15PM They allegedly wore Bersih T-shirts during the council’s full board meeting.

UPDATED 5.50PM Personnel from the Special Action Forces stormed into the kindergarten at about 3.45pm, about seven hours after the incident occurred.

Police are now staying in three residential colleges at UM in what students consider an attempt to thwart Bersih 2.0's rally.

Ops IC director of operations Azwan Ramli says they want documented evidence to stop the EC from making last-minute changes.

UPDATED 4.40PM The IGP, however, denies the claims and warns those spreading such rumours of arrest.

UPDATED 4.40PM Show me one person who has voted twice, challenged EC chief Abdul Aziz.

UPDATED 6.41PM It called on PM to instruct Stadium Merdeka to allow the rally on its grounds.

UPDATED 4.20PM Election Commission chairperson Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof says its doors are open for discussion as Bersih prepares to rally for electoral reform.

It's to keep tabs on officers, teachers and staff taking part in illegal gatherings or movements which may disrupt national security.

SPECIAL REPORT Malaysia sets very ambitious investment targets in the next decade, but its controversial affirmative action policy has prompted a talent exodus.

Court throws out RM500 million native land suit after two days of argument, saying it has no jurisdiction in such cases.

Deputy commissioner Mohd Fauzi Husin also related what he knew of the day the customs officer allegedly fell to his death at the MACC building.

EXCLUSIVE In a collateral move, Education Ministry specifically bars teaching staff and students.

Syed Hamid Albar says the commission has not frozen temporary bus permits, but is only maintaining the status quo.

They have detained 41 people from last Friday on suspicion of involvement in the assembly planned for Saturday.

UPDATED 3.22PM He has turned his back on the Agong by insisting that Bersih 2.0 is still illegal, says Zuraida Kamaruddin. [VIDEO INSIDE]

INTERVIEW Now the government is threatened with losing Chinese support, says the former prime minister.

UPDATED 7.45PM The government is going all out to thwart Saturday's rallies.

Categorising online social circles.

FREE VOXPOP 'Malaysia will enter the Guiness Book of Records as a Third World country for disallowing the wearing of yellow.'

UPDATED 11.55AM His Facebook page was hacked early this morning by what appears to be a local group.

The indications are clear that the six detainees have been subjected to ISA-style arrest and not the EO.

UPDATED 2.50PM The EC said claims that extra ballots were stuffed in a box in SK Siong Tengah were untrue.

COMMENT Bersih’s determination to hold the July 9 gathering in Merdeka Stadium places a pussyfooting government on the spot.

FREE YOURSAY 'How can you prevent anything just by sitting in your tent or waving all the cars to go through? You are merely causing inconvenience.'

FREE YOURSAY 'How come a 'titah' from Agong can be ignored by BN government? Is this a crisis of sorts about to begin between the royalty and Umno?'

FREE YOURSAY 'Who are really the so-called communists - the rakyat or Umnoputra?'

FREE YOURSAY 'Now that Bersih 2.0 organisers agree to hold the rally inside a stadium, Najib directs the stadiums not to allow it to happen.'