Archive - 8 February 2012

The former PM says Anwar had stated in an interview with the BBC in Mumbai recently that Malaysian laws were obsolete.

The expedition for peace organised by Aspirasi can become a platform for university students to become a catalyst for development.

Special purpose vehicle of the Federal Territories Foundation, not EPF, will enter into a lease arrangement with individual borrowers.

The state government has not received more info about the detention of a man, believed to be the ex-boyfriend of Elizabeth Wong.

Justice Ahmad Ma’arop says the prosecution only needed to prove that the words uttered by Karpal Singh had the tendency to be seditious.

Cuepacs is scheduled to table its proposal paper to the special task force to review the Public Service New Remuneration Scheme (SBPA) on Feb 22.

The High Court hearing the murder case of cosmetic millionaire Sosilawati Lawiya and three others was today told that former lawyer N Pathmanabhan, the first accused, had issued two Hong Leong Bank cheques for RM4 million for payment to a company owned by the businesswoman.

Its CEO Wan Shahinur Izmir Mohd Salleh says Rafizi Ramli should concentrate on issues under his direct purview in Selangor.

Allegations that Umno is interfering in the affairs of the Terengganu Islamic Religous and Malay Customs Council’s (Maidam) and blocking zakat (tithe) aid to Terengganu students studying in Egypt are wild accusations and irresponsible, Terengganu Menteri Besar Ahmad Said said today. 

UPDATED 6.55PM FT PAS Youth chief Kamaruzaman Mohamad wants Jamil Khir Baharom to explain why the amount was not accounted for.

Describing the news reports as childish, he said speculation that he was stepping down from his post was a psychological attack against him.

Party women’s chief Zuraida Kamaruddin and strategic director Rafizi Ramli say they will use the opportunity in court to expose further abuses.

UPDATED 6.31PM However, a doctor who tried to resuscitate the taxi driver during the Bersih rally, tells the coroner that she cannot be sure about this.

Actress-cum-model Nasha Aziz withdrew her appeal against the decision of the KL court to order her to pay RM10,000 to her father.

UPDATED 7.55PM After two hours of questioning, Shahrizat emerged at 6pm and gave a brief statement. [VIDEO INSIDE]

DAP sec-gen Lim Guan Eng also says the royal panel should decide whether the national carmaker should be wound up.

Former S'gor PAS chief Hasan Ali says the rights of non-Muslims are guaranteed under the federal constitution.

UPDATED 4.05PM Bank Negara Malaysia and the People’s Bank of China today renewed its currency swap agreement.

AirAsia Inc (Philippines) yesterday received its air operator certificate from the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines.

For having helped PAS to elect Ibrahim Ali to Parliament, the DAP should ‘share the blame’ for the ‘ang pow’ fiasco.

Segambut MP Lim Lip Eng says the police had arrested 10 people in connection to the pasting of thousands of hate posters.

Nibong Tebal MP Tan Tee Beng, who has been sacked as Penang head, hints that there is an ulterior motive for his dismissal.

Sessions Court Judge Sitarun Nisa Abdul Aziz says the prosecution has proven a prima facie case against Abdul Rahman Harun.

Toh, a Malayan-born PAP founder member, who died last Friday at 90, might have scripted things differently. 

The party’s state information chief Mazlan Aliman says this is to avoid undue influence from those who may have vested interests.

However, Himpun - which made the claim - has declined to provide the information requested.  

UPDATED 3.05PM SAMM's Badrul Hisham Shaharin alleges that two companies are exporting palm oil to Israel.

UPDATED 2.56PM Pakatan MPs have been told that the money will be made available through the gov't. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Authorities in Indonesia’s Aceh province warned youths today against celebrating Valentine’s Day, saying it could lead them into promiscuity.

UPDATED 4.05PM PKR's Rafizi Ramli says that the two Marina Bay suites condos are worth RM34.6 million. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 2.55PM Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof says parliament may be dissolved in May, so polls can take place in 60 days.

The opposition has missed the point. It's not a loan made directly to home purchasers, but it’s an EPF loan to the gov't.

Party veep Husam Musa says the people will tell PAS directly what they want through Facebook and other social networking sites.

We know what ‘you help me, I help you’ really means.

PAS vice-president urges the sacked former Selangor PAS commissioner to be transparent over his ambition to become the Selangor MB.

‘Ubah wants more friends on BBM,’ the DAP’s mascot says in a Blackberry conversation with Malaysiakini.

The three entries selected will be eligible for financial and technical support in the event, themed ‘Democracy: Who’s the boss?’.

FREE YOURSAY ‘Umno-BN are a millstone around the neck of all Malaysians, and have been since the mid-1960s, if not earlier.'

FREE VOXPOP 'The scheme is very similar to sub-prime fiasco. If the owner defaulted, who will shoulder the losses? Me?'

FREE YOURSAY 'Why is the PM asking a predominately Chinese crowd to be moderate? Shouldn't he be directing this to Umno, Perkasa and Perkida?'

INTERVIEW The PKR director of strategy sees the cattle project as a ‘disguise' for NFC to gain access to the soft loan.

INTERVIEW The PKR strategy chief suggests that Shahrizat's family knew the project was never going to succeed. [VIDEO INSIDE]