Archive - 19 May 2012

The list will be submitted soon and the party seeks to win 10 more parliamentary seats - from its current haul of 15 to 25.

Ex-servicemen were today advised to be wary of the opposition's sweet promises to avoid becoming their tools.

The Perak People's Progressive Party (PPP) wants the Bar Council dissolved as it has become more political, said party vice-chairman Naran Singh.

UPDATED 8.05PM An angry mob heckles two Malacca DAP reps and other supporters for holding an event featuring Ambiga.

Five police officers were injured when their car crashed into the metal gate of the PM's official residence early today.

Gerakan's 'first cut' candidates list for the upcoming GE was submitted to Najib early this month, says Koh Tsu Koon.

'Umno must accept PAS together with its Pakatan (opposition) partners. When Umno has changed its stand (policy), it must join Pakatan.'

'If I were them, I would feel ashamed for taking the money,' says Pahang MB.

It wants to know what cabinet posts will go to Wan Azizah, deputy president Azmin Ali and wife, Shamsidar Taharin.

'Time is on Pakatan Rakyat's side, any delay in elections will provide more time to debunk the BN's campaign of lies'.

 

'If you keep responding, you give credibility to what is being said, sometimes if you don't respond, it will just fizzle out.'

 

UPDATED 7.25PM About 70 people turn up despite an effort to demonise the controversial Canadian Muslim author.

INTERVIEW ‘Bersih had sparked off something positive in people', something that cannot be put back in the bottle.

UPDATED 6.19PM Member NGO Lawyers for Liberty advises brutality victims during Bersih to engage their help in lodging police reports.

The decision was reached after FGVH concluded that the French private holding company could synergise best with Felda's operations.

All state religious departments had also been instructed not to allow the 44-year-old woman to spread her ideology in the country.

UPDATED 3.53PM Why use Sedition Act against Irene Fernandez and not the likes of Ibrahim Ali and Hasan Ali?

COMMENT Discreet silence would be the better part of valour in DAP’s stance towards escalating broadsides from its just-quit member. 

KL CID chief Ku Chin Wah has rebuked an alleged victim of brutality for exercising his rights to remain silent.

However, the seasoned politician would rather let matters lie than add fuel to fire, in the hope that Tunku Abdul Aziz will reciprocate.

'The textile and electronics industries are negligent in enforcing workers' legal wage standards and working conditions'.

The DAP sec-gen says Umno-linked Utusan’s front page report on the former member’s remark to back Najib speaks for itself.

FREE YOURSAY ‘The Australian senator can teach our political leaders how to stand up and face accountability like a man.'

Police stubbornly hang on to their stand that tear gas is safe, though its usage has been condemned outright by the UN.

FREE VOXPOP 'Selling ‘beef' burgers in front of a Hindu's house is actually much worse than the bum-wiggling carried out by the so-called army vets.'

FREE YOURSAY 'If the DPM wants to quote a book, have some integrity and quote it completely and not selectively.'

FREE YOURSAY 'All this crude mess would not have come about if people in top positions think carefully before they speak.'

He rejects CIJ's finding that there's no guarantee of Pakatan freeing the media environment if it takes over Putrajaya.

COMMENT His actions in the past few days have effectively destroyed whatever bit of myth making was due his way.

'Muftis, imams and clerics lack humility and are always trying to impose their own mores and dogma upon the populace.'