Archive - 31 August 2011

In a statement here, the Home Ministry said the government was determined to tackle the human trafficking menace.

The MIC central leadership has reduced the penalty meted out to two of its leaders for breach of party discipline. 

The handing-over marked the end of the 1961 water agreement signed between the Singapore and Johor governments.

Club member Chong Kok Kiong said there were eight people, including children, swimming in the pool.

Several Sabah leaders today questioned the accuracy of a survey which showed that the popularity of PM Najib has dipped. 

Prime Minister Najib Razak today reminded the people not to forget the sacrifices of past leaders in freeing Malaysia from the colonialists.  

Foreigners who have been duped into paying exorbitant charges for registration under the amnesty programme could file a complaint.

He suggests that current MCA leaders should have the courage to answer whether the Chinese are indeed marginalised.

Cambodia is not doing enough to protect women planning to work abroad as maids, says Human Rights Watch.

'Let's make no bones about it, today's decision ... is a profoundly disappointing one,' says Chris Bowen.

'The RM300 million state assembly building ... serves as perhaps the most obvious example of self-enrichment of the CM.’

Penang PKR has welcomed the denial from DAP that it was eyeing a number of Malay-majority seats which are by convention contested by PKR.

Malaysia has brushed off a warning by the FAO about a resurgence of the deadly bird flu virus and a new mutant strain.

UPDATED 7.22PM The High Court says the refugees could not be sent to a nation lacking legal safeguards.

A fire was reported at an immigration detention centre in Australia today ahead of a ruling by the nation's highest court.

The Google logo decorated with a ‘ketupat’ and a Malaysian flag.

Self-restraint and abstinence, Umno-style.

Many people have been denied their rightful place in Malaysian history. A new book aims to set the record straight.

ANALYSIS The extremely narrow victory of Dr Tony Tan for the presidency is yet another marker of political transformation.

COMMENT Was it a gift from the British or was it a struggle for liberation? Who were among those who played a key role in this?

FREE YOURSAY 'Isn't it time for the ordinary members of MCA, Gerakan, MIC and those in Sabah and Sarawak to leave their respective parties?'

The nation's 54th anniversary comes at a time of increasingly tense ethnic and religious ties.