Archive - 9 June 2012

The Kuala Lumpur Petty Traders Action Council plans to collect one million signatures to show they are against street protests.

The 19 suspects including a staff from the National Registration Department from Putrajaya were nabbed in a series of arrests since May 25.

Malaysians have no other choice but to defend BN, which is the only institution that can guarantee their future.

Faekah added that the entire episode was a warning to public servants not to abide by politicians' orders blindly.

Recognising the need to slash spiralling debt, Anwar argued this could still be done through cuts to existing wastages.

He says they purportedly wanted free and fair elections but did not care how this objective was to be achieved.

UPDATED 7.36PM Anwar Ibrahim reminds foreigners who have allegedly received rights to vote that they risk facing the music.

'I challenge him - I will open up every single one of my accounts and that Muhyiddin must do likewise.'

'I am disappointed with the DAP leaders who tried to criticise the issues for their political mileage,' says Soi Lek.

Anwar asked to clarify an allegation on his ownership of 20 master accounts worth RM3 billion by ex-Bank Negara assistant governor Abdul Murad Khalid.

Abdullah, who is the MP for Kepala Batas, said that he was shocked when he saw pictures of the performance.

The teenager required two stitches to his head, suffered a fractured right finger and bruises on his chest.

Muhyiddin says Malaysians cannot refute the fact that the future of the nation depended on the unity of the Malays and Muslims.

'When you have a government that is prepared to listen, you don't need to take to the streets,' he says.

If a budget bill was tabled, then the debate would have to be adjourned, says deputy speaker Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar.

‘The distribution system's unfairness clearly displays discrimination towards Tamil schools'.

UPDATED 4.28PM Lecturer cum social activist Wong Chin Huat assaulted early this morning in Petaling Jaya while jogging.

'Even if MyKad numbers and dates of birth do not match, they're still valid' says the EC, shifting the responsibility to NRD.

The MCA chief says detractors within the party will be allowed to contest as long as they are ‘winnable’.

The info minister is flayed for publicly drawing conclusions that Bersih was ‘violent’ ahead of his govenrment's own inquiry panel findings.

FREE YOURSAY 'Once a price is put up in open bidding, it is recognised and accepted as a commitment for the number plates.'

'Nowhere in the (Police) Act does it say that the force needs to be loyal or blindly loyal to the government,' says Mat Zain.

FREE YOURSAY 'Rais, Umno should take a lesson or two from Bersih on how to get all the races and religions together.'

FREE YOURSAY 'Can a good apple be found in a rotten apple cart? Can a person do good deeds based on spineless principles or bad policies?'

The DAP supremo pokes fun at the duo’s lack of 1Malaysia values in precipitating the PTPTN freeze fiasco.

COMMENT There is a link between the issue of Anwar's successor and whether a non-Malay can become PM of Malaysia.

FREE YOURSAY 'The reversal from PTPTN shows how unpopular the decision to freeze the loans has become.'

FREE YOURSAY ‘Why tell us the 'good news' now when PTPTN should not have announced the bad news in the first place.'