Archive - 26 March 2012

Mubarak team to be Selangor BN polls facilitators

Forty from Malaysian Council of Elected Representatives will strengthen the BN machinery to recapture the state in coming general election.

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Make police report if threatened, politicians told

Failure to do so will make it difficult for police to ensure their safety, says Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.

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Four burglars break into Mawi's bungalow

Singer Mawi suffered losses of RM10,000 when four men, believed to be Indonesian nationals, armed with machetes and knives, broke into his three-storey bungalow in Bangi Golf Resort in Kajang early today.

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Let MACC investigate Copgate, says Hisham

PARLIAMENT UPDATED 8.35PM ‘It involves a former IGP and if the police investigate, the opposition will say that it is not fair,’ says the home minister.

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PAS support plans for anti-PTPTN demo

PAS has supported plans by student groups to hold a demonstration to demand for PTPTN loans to be written off.

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Five charged with putting up insulting posters

Five men pleaded not guilty at the court today to putting up posters insulting Lim Guan Eng and S Ambiga.

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Penang Hospital first to offer free buggy service

The Penang Hospital (HPP) has become the first government hospital to offer free buggy service for patients from the car park bays to various areas of the hospital.

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'Be careful with KL-S'pore rapid transit project'

PARLIAMENT Pakatan MPs warn the ‘privately funded initiative’ estimated to cost RM30bil can result in another government bailout. [VIDEO INSIDE]

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Chinese student fined for calling Singaporeans 'dogs'

A Chinese university student in Singapore has been fined and ordered to perform community service for calling Singaporeans “dogs” in a microblog, local media said today.

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Let not M'sia drown in a sea of red ink

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PAS: PM bows to US, Israeli pressure over Iran's oil

UPDATED 6.55PM Mohamad Sabu views the embargo on crude oil imports from Iran as a sign the PM cannot stand up to the US and Israeli lobby.

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Shahrizat as Wanita Umno chief 'a step backward'

Allowing the minister to stay as the wing's leader neither advances nor uplifts the status of women, says Wanita PKR chief Zuraida Kamaruddin.

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Xavier, Halimah deny pricey office upgrade claim

Dr Halimah Ali says her office remains the same since 2008 while Dr Xavier Jayakumar says he will give the breakdown of his renovations soon.

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Nazri told: Explain source of funds for Porsche

PKR wants him to reveal where he got the money to buy the Porsche and luxury MPV used by his son during last week's fracas.

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ISA suit: Ex-IGP claims he was misunderstood

UPDATED 7.15PM Testifying as a defendant, Norian Mai denies pinpointing five reformasi activists as being involved in militant activities in 2001.

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Public transport renewal permits out from April 1

Up to 74,000 renewal permits for operating taxis, buses and lorries are being readied for distribution from April 1, the Dewan Rakyat was told today.

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Selangor's KSSB is first GLC to sign integrity pact

The integrity pact prohibits contractors from bribing KSSB officials and makes it compulsory for them to attend anti-corruption training.

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Extent of discontent with MCA shown at 325 Rally

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Labourer charged with murder of Dirang

Muidin Maidin, 24, allegedly murdered Nurul Nadirah at an oil palm plantation in Bandar Seri Alam, Masai, between 11am and 7pm on March 1.

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'Property values in Kuantan not affected by Lynas issue'

Menteri Besar Adnan Yaakob says the value of properties such as in several locations especially those near Gebeng had clearly gone up.

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RM300,000 spent by Hasan was to build new office

UPDATED 6.05PM It was not against Anwar Ibrahim’s instruction prohibiting office-bearers from renovating their offices, says Khalid Ibrahim.

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'Noh way that botanical garden land will be sold'

Selangor exco member Elizabeth Wong rubbishes federal minister Noh Omar’s claim that 100 acres will be sold to meet operational expenses.

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Hasan recycles personal attacks against Azmin

UPDATED 5PM Hasan Ali digs up old allegations, some of these from as far back as 1998 and which are personal in nature.

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Lim: Pakatan has to expose BN's deceits, or else...

Pakatan will fare miserably in the coming GE if it fails to expose the BN's deficits, debts and deceits, warns the Penang CM.

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Hasan: Two exco members spent more than me

UPDATED 4.22PM He deflects criticism of his RM300,000 office renovations, by claiming that two former colleagues had spent far more than this.

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PAS to unveil more Felda Global Ventures failures

UPDATED 3.57PM Following its expose, PAS now spotlights FGVH's bad investments in India, Kalimantan and the Middle East. [VIDEO INSIDE]

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Hasan to finally show proselytising video

UPDATED 4.26PM He will reveal excerpts of a video, which he claims will prove attempts to convert Muslims.

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MCA Youth blames Pakatan for rowdy 325 rally

Deputy chief Mah Hang Soon says Pakatan leaders at the rally should have calmed the crowd and not be hostile to Wee.

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'Magnanimous' Wee forgives alleged 'attacker'

UPDATED 4.30PM The deputy minister won't lodge a police report against the man who 'punched' him at the rally. [VIDEO INSIDE]

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Sedition charge: Karpal's appeal dismissed

Federal Court allows the prosecution’s preliminary objection that Court of Appeal decision is not appealable.

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Kadir: Top party leaders plotted to oust me

UPDATED 5.26PM Umno veteran Kadir Sheikh Fadzir blames his departure on concerted media attacks ordered from the top.

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Porntip, as she sees herself

BOOK REVIEW UPDATED 3.55PM Dr Porntip Rojanasunan reveals two sides to her personality i n her autobiography .

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Thunderstorm damages over 60 houses in Kubang Pasu

More than 60 houses in five villages and a housing estate in Kubang Pasu suffered damages during a thunderstorm yesterday.

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Vui Kong's case: M'sian MPs allege bias in sentencing

Because of this, they want the case of the Malaysian on Singapore's death row to be reviewed by the International Court of Justice.

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Anwar files RM100mil suit against Nalla, Utusan

In his originating summons, Anwar claimed that the libellous words contained in the newspaper article were false and baseless.

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PAS Youth insists all Jewish links forbidden

This differs from Hadi Awang and Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat who have said that trade with Jews is allowed, but not Zionists.

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Spad to review 'high' daily taxi rental

PARLIAMENT UPDATED 1.20PM ‘The terms must not be a burden’ on taxi drivers, says Deputy Minister in PM's Department Ahmad Maslan.

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PCM fumes as another solar panel plant discovered

Parti Cinta Malaysia also questions why the earlier German-based company Robert Bosch GmbH was allowed to invest in Penang.

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Retirement age Bill unlikely to be passed this year

Minister says the draft Bill which raises private sector retirement age to 60, still needs to be vetted by the AG's Chambers.

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The families from hell

Umno ministers are terrible politicians and bad parents.

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When teens were held under the ISA

ISA FOCUS A book publisher, himself a detainee at 20, says many students were among those held in 1968.

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Three-cornered fights if DAP fails to get more seats

UPDATED 3.20PM Kedah DAP says it has to go for three-cornered fights as the party wants to play a bigger role in the state administration.

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Lewd video, messages targeting Anwar sent to MP

UPDATED 12.35PM Teo Nie Ching reports receiving humiliating messages through her mobile phone to MCMC. [VIDEO INSIDE]

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Wake up Hindraf, PM can't be trusted

FREE YOURSAY 'Stop daydreaming because your cows won't come home no matter how many watermelons are smashed.'

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Was Wee Ka Siong rightly booed?

FREE YOURSAY 'The message to Wee is that his ministry and MCA have just not done enough and they must pay the price.'

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Najib's reform: Now you see it, now you don't

COMMENT PM's inconsistent message of reform is creating a pall in which his administration's minor gains are quickly submerged.

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Captured heckler mobbed at Pakatan ceramah

A heckler captured at a Pakatan ceramah in Kuala Selangor sent PAS crowd-control corps scrambling. [VIDEO INSIDE]

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Probe on AG and ex-IGP if Pakatan captures Putrajaya

'We have to go back to the mandate of the people to find out whether we have criminals as the (former) head of police and AG.'

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