Archive - 14 October 2011

The Hulu Selangor parliamentary constituency has allocated RM100,000 to help about 2,000 needy people celebrate Deepavali.

The former Gerakan president is going to give the party’s conference this year a miss as he has been hospitalised due to an illness.

Kelantan Umno is unperturbed if the PAS-led government refuses to dissolve the state assembly simultaneously with the dissolution of Parliament, said Kelantan Umno liaison committee deputy chairperson Dr Awang Adek Hussin.

UPDATED 10.20PM The Conference of Rulers has agreed that Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah will be the next Agong.

Jingga 13 activists demand full Bukit Aman investigation, claiming there's evidence this many were given citizenship for their votes in the 1990s.

Rebel Sarawak Progressive Democratic Party (SPDP) senior vice-president Peter Nansian said he and the so-called ‘SPDP Five’ would not comply with a decision by 10 SPDP divisions that they should be expelled from the party for running down the party president.

Gerakan chief brushed aside the allegation that his predecessor Dr Lim Keng Yaik was behind the move to oust him.

Three million Rela personnel will back up immigration and police personnel for a massive crackdown.

They rubbish argument in Umno-linked newspaper that social activists in the state ‘seem nowhere to be heard or seen these days'.

Former agriculture minister Mohd Effendi Norwawi told the High Court in Kuala Lumpur today that he had never received complaints of lying by former transport minister Dr Ling Liong Sik regarding the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project.

UPDATED 6.10PM It has to pay Khalid Samad of PAS RM60,000 for defaming him in a front-page article two years ago.

A group calling themselves the Anti-inflation Kedahans Association or ‘Pokai’, staged a peaceful demonstration in Alor Setar today.

Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah sounds warning about polls danger for BN in Budget 2012 one-off cash payment plan.

 

Party sec-gen says top on the agenda will be charting a roadmap for the party to face the upcoming general election and beyond.

Institutional reform has become virtually impossible.

UPDATED 5.50PM The party queries EC's Agency Link-Up System's value when there are '40,000 questionable names' in the electoral roll.

 

UPDATED 5.10PM The explanation that the foreigners at the resort were attending an entreupeunership course is hard to believe, says PAS.

Uthayakumar asks if Najib’s promise to the Indians of a four-day festive break for universities was just a 'gimmick'.

Education minister is considering to postpone the examination to a new date, MIC president G Palanivel says.

Gerakan must have the courage to take on the toughest seats and face uphill battles to regain its dignity, says CEC member Dr Cheah Soon Hai.

Padang Sanai residents claim a plantation firm has encroached on the land they have been occupying since the 1970s.

The MP questions the mixed signals sent by the company and the government on the firestorm ignited by the project's planned tunnel.

Ananda Krishnan, Malaysia's second richest man and a friend to top politicians, is charged in the telecoms mess.

UPDATED 3.55PM Lawyers representing several GLCs, other companies and the government today deny that talks for a global settlement were taking place.

The Bar Council has suggested Prime Minister Najib to take this issue up as part of his reform initiative.

COMMENT Dithering about the dates would do the PM neither good nor bad; more likely the latter.

In an Utusan Malaysia report today, several muftis say this particular law is necessary to protect the faith of Muslims.

Malaysia will source rice cargoes from India and Pakistan to meet its import needs after floods swamped farms and mills in Thailand.

Its secretary-general, Abdul Rahman Ibrahim, says they are hoping to also receive the payment to government pensioners.

It says copies are being circulated and expresses fear that this will undermine the Muslim faith, Umno-linked daily Utusan Malaysia reports.

FREE COMMENT They have got it completely wrong on the alleged Malaysiakini-Malay Mail partnership.

COMMENT ‘The auditor-general's report will be released at some point and all the feel-good feelings will surely dissipate'.

Those at a Bangi resort alleged to be candidates for citizenship were actually attending an 'entrepreneurship course'.

UPDATED 12.30PM This is despite several police reports being lodged by PAS on the matter from last year.

FREE VOXPOP Doubts over authenticity of 40,000 voters in the electoral roll are just the tip of the iceberg. What about those  dubiously granted citizenship and MyKad?

The MCA Youth chief blames PKR Youth for fuelling speculations about the ‘glam girls’. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The Election Commission chief says these must be sent in by end of December to register voters for the fourth quarter of the year.

FREE YOUR SAY Tunku Zain al 'Abidin is no doubt from the elite group, but has won genuine praise because of his objectivity.

The government's 'stillborn' proposal to raise allowances of MPs saw keen debate in the Dewan Rakyat today.