Archive - 15 October 2011

The government will strive to ensure that the Indian community will have a better future, said PM Najib Razak.

Malaysia will be bankrupt if the opposition wins the general election, said Deputy PM Muhyiddin Yassin.

A teenager who was abducted from a cyber cafe in Tampoi Indah, Johor Baru, and later found dead in front of a temple in Jalan Stulang Laut early this week, was a victim of murder.

Police will question the woman, who was believed to have hidden her newborn baby in a toilet's water tank.

Two of the 11 resolutions proposed by Gerakan Youth were not passed by the delegations at the National Youth Delegates Conference 2011 today.

The menteri besar has more power in this context compared to him, says deputy premier Muhyiddin.

GERAKAN NDC After the morning grill, delegates turn the tables on Koh.

Ex Bursa Malaysia president Salleh Majid says that calling  for polls  this year would be ill-advised seeing the unstable global conditions.

The suit was filed in connection with a memorandum sent to the Selangor government last May.

Three hundred students from 11 secondary schools in Kuantan have received a government-sponsored 1Malaysia netbook each.

A website seemingly set up to counter negative reports against Sarawak CM Abdul Taib Mahmud has shut down.

'Many people have come forward, asking how to apply for this, what is the definition, and how to calculate the income.'

The home minister said he would reveal everything before the select committee which was set up by Parliament.

Government departments are taking steps to implement the decision on the compulsory use of the Malay language in government administration.

GERAKAN NDC Gerakan has set its sights on regaining the Taiping parliamentary seat which was contested twice by the People's Progressive Party.

GERAKAN NDC The Gerakan Youth chief says viral videos can help promote BN's reform efforts and Namewee is the perfect candidate to produce them.

It will introduce a new MyKad with state-of-the-art security features starting January next year, says Hishammuddin.

Youth chief Nasrudin Hassan says to date, NRD has not challenged them up front on the many allegations levelled at them.

The ‘Islamic Sex, Fighting Jews to Return Islamic Sex to the World’ calls on husbands to have sex with all their wives together.

Cambodia bans its citizens from going to work in Malaysia as maids following a series of horrific reports of beatings and rapes.

Najib says government intervention through the implementation of specific programmes had allowed more Malaysians to own quality homes.

Supp organising secretary Peter Chin has however refused to be dragged into the latest speculation that he would contest the party president's post.

GERAKAN NDC Koh Tsu Koon says he will definitely be leading the party at the next GE, ignoring calls to step down.

GERAKAN NDC The   Wanita chief says party leaders, including Tsu Koon, must get their act together.

Former Gerakan president Lim Keng Yaik skips the party's Life Member Council (LMC) meeting today due to health reasons.     

UPDATED 1.55PM An ex-magistrate says an RCI is necessary because the inquest had failed to consider crucial evidence.

COMMENT Opponents of hudud on account of its barbarism must also reassess the similarly inhumane common law punishment.

UPDATED 12.35PM GERAKAN NDC In a stinging attack on her boss, Tan Lian Hoe expressed embarrassment over the party's weak leadership.

Grassroots activist Badrul Hisham Shaharin says the brochure will publish the original evidence regarding the ring.

PAS Youth Johor claims that the 240 foreigners at the ‘entrepreneurship course' in Bangi were on agriculture workers' passes.

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