Archive - 6 May 2012

Its chair Khaled Nordin says the PSC differs from that for electoral reform because it will be based on scientific fact.

The independent advisory panel to be set up to investigate the Bersih 3.0 rally in the federal capital on May 28, will be unbiased, said Home Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.    

Police say they are completing investigation papers to proceed with legal action against the undergraduate.

Dr M says Pakatan Rakyat has resorted to street demos because it knows it can't wrest Putrajaya through the ballot box.

He says the gov't has no objections to demonstrations as long they did not flout the country's laws.

UPDATED 8.14PM The UN special rapporteur Frank La Rue's participation in the independent panel will enhance its credibility.

Bersih supporters who assembled in Mecca and Medinah are to blame if Saudi Arabia bans Malaysian pilgrims in the future, said Umno veep Ahmad Zahid Hamidi.

The Save Jalan Sultan committee says they had been gazetted as heritage buildings and asks if the MRT had approval from the NHD to destroy them. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The three ex-IGPs' indictment of Bersih 3.0, purely based on PM's Najib's coup claim, is described as the "height of ridiculousness"

The two BN Chinese parties up collaboration in hope of improving their situation in the face of the next polls.

Asked on the PM's claims that Bersih 3.0 was an attempted coup, the IGP says this was being investigated.

Some say the two can achieve efficiencies by outsourcing their procurement activities to a mutually owned joint venture.

The National Fatwa Council gets creative on demonstrations that are ‘unproductive, is against the law or causes disturbance’.

Questions were raised in the Swiss Parliament on the money laundering claims which link Musa and UBS.

The PKR deputy president's mother went on national television to plead for his return to the family, but only if he leaves the party.

UPDATED 5.39PM About 1,000 people surrounded two iconic buildings, which will make way for the MRT project.

Three ex-IGPs say the PM's claim that Bersih 3.0 intended to occupy Dataran Merdeka and topple the government, is credible.

The UN special rapporteur says he is willing to help probe Bersih 3.0 violence and hopes to get an official invite.

COMMENT The goal of the state is not to forge one common entity or identity. Instead, it should ensure there is no disparity of treatment among the ethnic groups.

FREE YOURSAY 'They probably want someone like former IGP Hanif Omar, who believes the communists are still running wild in KL, to do the probe.'

On campaign swings, N Surendran collects details on stateless Indian M'sians, whose count he says is higher than MIC’s.

FREE YOURSAY 'They traders lost their business because of their own stupidity. Who told them to close shop on April 28?'

COMMENT The government should bear in mind that globally, the single most important event that triggers political transitions is a fraudulent election.