Archive - 26 July 2011

'The proposal is to bring improvements to the system,' DPM Muhyiddin says.

An RMAF officer says he does not know whether the engines were taken out according to procedures set by the RMAF.

Its chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan asks the commission to form a panel comprising of representatives from all parties and NGOs.

Party president Abdul Hadi Awang also claims that the system is open to manipulation by those operating it.

UPDATED 7.24PM EC says biometric voter system will eliminate multiple voting - but Ambiga has reservations.

The state government is confident that Sarawak will achieve 50 percent broadband penetration by the end of this year.

The report on the proposal to comprehensively review the national education system is expected to be completed by year-end, said Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin. 

Former Perlis mufti Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin accuses the authorities of 'brown-nosing' clerics against movement for clean and fair elections.

'The government is directly responsible for a worsened human rights situation in 2010,' says a rights group.

Penang opposition leader and Penaga assemblyperson Azhar Ibrahim today failed in his bid to quash an order for him to vacate the Penaga assemblyperson’s community service centre.

Its communication director, Mohd Yusof Abdul Rahman, said the move was vital to prevent Muslim consumers from purchasing non-halal medicines.

Five lawyers and an activist want to sue the police over their alleged unlawful arrests four years ago.

UPDATED 7.16PM Mat Sabu describes the listing of a number of ulama as suspected promoters of Wahabism as 'baseless'.

UPDATED 4.30PM PAS has a list of "cloned voters" and the numbers are "shockingly huge", its vice-president Husam Musa says.

The apparent dissent against the BN gov't led by Najib Razak continues to simmer on the online landscape.

UPDATED 8.20PM EC No 2 Wan Ahmad faced a hostile crowd in a debate with Bersih's S Ambiga. [VIDEO INSIDE]

ANALYSIS The bare bones of the deal show Malaysia striking a very hard bargain in agreeing to take the next 800 asylum seekers who arrive in Australia.

Sighting of the new moon to determine the start of the fasting month for Muslims in Malaysia will be conducted this Sunday.

Before he takes the stand, Anwar also seeks to interview ex-IGP Musa Hassan, ex-Malacca top cop Mohd Rodwan Yusof and the condo-owner.

Deputy IGP Khalid Abu Bakar says so far, however, only RTM has accepted the offer and screened the video.

Now someone must pay the price, but who?

UPDATED 4.02PM Even as complaints against them have mounted, the police appear to be getting more 'trigger-happy'.

UPDATED 3.05PM The MACC shows its seriousness with its bunker-style room located underground.

UPDATED 2.50PM A total of 3,701 were detained under EO between 2000 and 2009.

The court will hear the application by a nephew of the Selangor Sultan for a committal proceeding against his mother for contempt.

COMMENT Exuberance to contest more seats would lead to intra-coalition unease and undermine public confidence in Pakatan.

PKR says this will only add to the financial pressure especially on young adults, already struggling with rising costs, as wages have not kept pace.

 

Up to 30 percent of EO detainees are innocent people languishing in holding centres, says Baljit Singh Sidhu.

The tender for the 197-kilometre Gemas-Johor Bahru electrified double tracking project will be done before year-end.

UPDATED 8.10PM The security council should also give anyone linked to Wahabism or terrorism the chance to address the allegations.

The rights NGO says the deportation of the French lawyer is an ‘affront to diplomacy, international law and decency’.

All train services which were disrupted since 1.13 this morning due to a fallen TNBH cable have been restored as of 10.30am.

UPDATED 1.20PM CIJ says the ruling government should let media regulate themselves on their own.

The deakl would set the worst type of precedent and could start a wider erosion of protection for refugees throughout the Asia-Pacific.

COMMENT A son of rubber tappers who could only study till Form 3, M Sugumaran, is among those detained under EO.

Australia may expand its unique refugee swap deal with Malaysia as the controversial agreement is seen as a 'pilot project'.

FREE YOURSAY 'I sincerely hope Archbishop Pakiam will respond to these outrageous comments by Najib.'

PSM sec-gen Arutchelvan also expresses concern over police refusal to let family members visit the detainees.

FREE VOXPOP 'Everybody who does not agree with Umno's version of Malay supremacy is either a Jew, a Christian, a Wahabi, a communist or what not.'

FREE YOURSAY 'The day of master-slave relationship between the government and media is over, and has been for some time globally - Malaysia is no exception.'

FREE YOURSAY 'There is no need for anybody to oversee BN's sordid decline. No end of empire is ever orderly or...'