Archive - 28 January 2012

Najib Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor, attended the national-level Chinese New Year open house at the Sitiawan airfield in Sitiawan tonight.

Awang Adek says the statement made by Hadi in an interview with Sinar Harian was something really extraordinary.

It is understood that existing duty allowance for Rela volunteers are RM5.80 per hour for officers and RM4 for other ranks.

'Is this the stand of the opposition Pakatan coalition, when the government does not even have diplomatic relations with Israel.'

Traffic was reported to he heavy and slow moving on the North-South Expressway in the direction of KL this afternoon.

The Orang Asli from the Temiar community and lawyer Siti Kassim have been taken to the Gua Musang police headquarters.

‘They dare not debate with us on policies, but prefer to hide behind this trio,' he says, looking rather annoyed.

'He had used technical excuses to say that the RM250 million NFC project was not a failure, even though he dared not say that it was a success.'

Former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad says the performance of the opposition in the states under their rule left much to be desired.

‘He can speak for 20 minutes, I will speak for 10 minutes. He can reply for 20 minutes, and then I will reply in 10 minutes,’ he says.

In a sign of the times, Perkasa has decided to celebrate Chinese New Year with an open house, to show that it's not really a racist organisation.

Jaringan Orang Asli Seletar Laut representative Eddy Salim says two excavators had encroached into their ancestral graveyard.

The celebration included a procession of antique cars, superbikes and Kuala Lumpur City Hall’s horse-mounted contingent.

CAP and several NGOs urge the authorities to ban sale of alcohol during Thaipusam which will be celebrated on Feb 7.

Suaram executive director E Nalini says she and her friend are key witnesses to the incident as there weren’t many people around at the time.

After MCA posted a CNY greeting video on YouTube taking aim at DAP, an edited version poking fun at MCA pops up.

Local Government Minister Wong Soon Koh says the constituencies are Bawang Assan, Bukit Assek, Dudong, Pelawan and Nangka.

The appointment letter for relief teacher Norfadilla was withdrawn because she was three months pregnant.

COMMENT The journalists themselves can start changing bit by bit. Begin with exercising self restraint, which is not the same as self-censorship.

The Pakatan state gov't is not about to take the blame for the Tan Hak Ju land deal which has cost Penangites millions.

Umno may activate its disciplinary committee to monitor members who are involved in acts of sabotage before the next general election.

Two-hour wait for NGOs to engage in a dialogue with the NFC executive director ends with unanswered queries.

UPDATED 3.05PM The Himpun rally in Kepala Batas is supposed to attract 20,000 people from all over Penang and Kedah.

The appeal of the duo, which will go before the appellate court, will reopen doubts about the Malaysian justice system.

FREE YOURSAY ‘National Union of Journalists, we trust you and your pledge but not the editors of the mainstream media.'

PKR wants no further action taken against students under the UUCA in their state-owned institutions in Pakatan states.

FREE VOXPOP 'As in the case of most corporatisation, look out for the big shareholders, including gov't proxies.'

FREE YOURSAY 'If all are clean as it is now claimed, the findings of the RCI can only enhance the govt's reputation.'

FREE YOURSAY 'What irks us is that the Shahrizat family is siphoning off the rakyat's money for personal ends.'

FREE YOURSAY 'There must be some common law or the Islamic law that prohibits Muslims or anyone from filming porno movies without a person's consent.'

The threat to release a new sex video allegedly involving Anwar is a shameless and desperate act, says PKR VP.

UPDATED 1.10AM Najib says he has no inkling about a new video claimed by the Datuk T trio allegedly involving Anwar.