Archive - 30 July 2011

The mother of Mohd Ashraf Hafiz Abdul Aziz, fondly known as 'Aleesha', is distraught her son would never wear the lacy liver-red 'baju kurung', which he had requested his cousin to make for Aidilfitri.

Opposition leaders are said to have turned their backs on Anwar Ibrahim by offering Razaleigh Hamzah to become the next opposition leader.

PKR strategist Rafizi Ramli says Pakatan may retain some elements of NEM should it clinch federal power.

Felda settlers, embroiled in disputes with the agency, should resolve them before an arbitration committee and not take legal action.

The government will study various ways and means to overcome the price increase of essential items in the country.

A UiTM constitution professor says the home minister’s absolute powers need to be clipped and draconian laws reformed.

Shuhardi Md Isa is alleged to have impersonated Baharudin Ahmad who died of a heart attack during the July 9 rally.

MIC today proposed that the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) set up a high-powered committee to work on short and long-term plans for the Indian community.

The 2012 Budget and the National Key Result Area (NKRA) 7 will aim to combat increasing high cost of living.

UPDATED 6.19PM MIC 65th AGM PM is bringing gov't ‘back to Tun Razak’s time’ with two MIC ministers in the cabinet.

UPDATED 5.45PM MIC 65th AGM The government can ignore MIC at BN's peril, warns Palanivel.

Lim Kit Siang says the premier should also set up an RCI to look into free and fair elections before the next GE.

'They all loved their hair but cherished freedom and justice more; the gov't leaders are like hairs on heads'.

MTUC calls on the government to use the proposed amnesty programme to draw up long-term strategies and solutions to migrant workers issues.

Holed up under EO, MP Dr D Jeyakumar feared police would frame the PSM 6 in order to hold them indefinitely. [VIDEO INSIDE]

MIC 65th AGM Delegates urged the government to arrange a second edition of the National MyDaftar campaign.

They were picked up around KL Sentral, that is outside of the no-go areas listed in the restriction order on the 91 persons.

The debate continues over the Bersih rally with a royal family member claiming the movement "had in someway been hijacked".

Mohd Ashraf last week failed in his bid to change his name to Aleesha Farhana after undergoing a sex change operation in Thailand.

INTERVIEW The senior politician relates a near scrape with blindness following the Sarawak election.

EYEWITNESS 'We had looked fear in its eye and stood together in the face of great danger and harm to ourselves.'

FREE VOXPOP 'But you know what, the diamond ring, the handbags, the jet-setting, the Hollywood and Bollywood stuff is so ‘you'.'

FREE YOURSAY 'Chan's tweet is really her private thoughts that she shared with people whom she trusted and Yew betrayed her.'

FREE YOURSAY 'What an excuse from Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali. Perkasa actually chickened out of the Bersih rally.'

COMMENT The govt's folly-prone tackling of Bersih has boosted the public profile of an otherwise minuscule party.

FREE YOURSAY 'Why bother telling us what you can't do. Tell us what needs to be done to ensure free and fair polls.'

The gov't should have no room to use the 'excuse' of national security in maintaining its culture of secrecy.

FREE YOURSAY 'It should now apologise to the PSM 6 and their families for the grief they have suffered since July 2.'