
Higher dividends expected for rubber smallholders
Participants of the Commercial Replanting Scheme are expected to receive a total of RM175 million in dividends from Risda this year.









It is a natural sequence of events since her senatorship expires on April 8, says former Wanita chief Rafidah Aziz.





This comes after the court orders Mahmud Abu Bekir to declare his assets in Shahnaz Majid's matrimonial claims case.




UPDATED 5.21PM
Zahid made the remark when the group handed him a pair of white gloves, symbolising a graft-free gov't.





Sungai Siput district police chief Supt Azman Salim said R Vinoth,18, from Padang Jawa in Klang, Selangor, died at 10pm.

'All four (state chief executives) shall meet to discuss the matter,' says Anwar after the Pakatan council meeeting.



PARLIAMENT
UPDATED 3.55PM
The Dewan Rakyat rejects four questions from two DAP MPs, saying the matter is sub judice.

By supporting the UN resolution, Pakatan would clarify its stand on minorities and distinguish itself from Umno.

Umno Wanita plans to meet all its state excos to explain Shahrizat's decision.


UPDATED 4.50PM
Shangri-La hotel says PM Najib, and not his office, paid the catering bill for daughter's party.



The government’s investment arm has disposed off its entire 4.17 percent stake in India’s YES Bank for RM330 million.







The banquet event order billed to PM's Office for Najib's daughter's party does not mean it paid for it, says Kota Belud MP.

PARLIAMENT
UPDATED 5.45PM
The PM says Selangor and Kelantan were the largest recipients of RM1.92 billion in aid.





COMMENT
The government misrepresents nuclear energy as a ‘valid energy option’ instead of renouncing it.

FREE
YOURSAY
'In which country does the rakyat have to investigate and prove the bad guys are guilty?'

Comparing Anwar’s victimisation and the minister’s resignation over Cowgate is ‘dishonest and hypocritical’.


FREE
YOURSAY
'If she is as selfless and sincere as asserted by Noh Omar, why didn't she resign as head of Wanita Umno?'


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YOURSAY
'How nice to have such a system in which A clears B, B clears A, and the MACC clears both A and B.'

Action could be taken against those responsible for making such statements, warns the Chief Registrar's Office.

The PKR MP says the home minister should react responsibly to the allegations of grave misdeeds by the AG.

The STG group may cancel a RM30 million resort project in Kuantan if the rare earths plant comes into operation.

Expectations were high that BN MPs attending an Agriculture Ministry meeting in KL last night would be briefed on the NFC scandal.