Archive - 15 July 2012

The DPM says the 13th general election would not be held next year as this year would be the most suitable time for it.      

The Umno and Barisan Nasional (BN) information machinery needs to be intensified including creating cyber troopers to counter opposition attacks in the social media.    

A new civil society coalition, Safer Malaysia, takes crime busting by the horns and plans to go on the warpath to make Malaysia safe again.

UPDATED 8PM The 1M4U fund for volunteerism will help keep youths away from 'riots and street demos', says the prime minister.

The failure of Anak’s Orange Rally to attract the target crowd of 20,000 proves that most Felda settlers support FGV’s public listing.

Selangor PKR chief Azmin Ali says if the grassroots are for it, the matter of her candidacy can be brought to the supreme council.

 

UPDATED 7.21PM Its construction next to a quarry lake has residents up in arms over dangers of land collapse and flooding.

Abolish ISA Movement says there would have been 500 outside the Kamunting detention centre if not for police roadblocks.

 

Utusan Malaysia urges Betty Chew and a women accused of having an affair with the former’s husband to hold a joint press conference.

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak's face is now plastered on KTM Komuter trains and platforms as GE13 looms.

UPDATED 3.37PM If BN represents all races, then the DPM and former Johor MB should step up says state DAP chief Boo Cheng Hau.

Its president Ibrahim Ali supports Gapena's opposition to the Chinese education rights group sending a memorandum to the PM.

Its president Ibrahim Ali says the purpose of the draft is to educate. However, hudud can be implemented once society is ready to accept it.

Raja Nong Chik says a statement by Lembah Pantai MP Nurul Izzah Anwar was slanted to portray BN as having tampered with the electoral process.

ADVERTORIAL Reports have come in that international teen sensation Justin Bieber received a tattoo at a KL parlour.

FREE YOURSAY 'The George Kent-Thales consortium helped him in the submarine deal, he helps them in the LRT project.'

COMMENT Which genius in Putrajaya came up with name ‘National Harmony Act', which immediately draws Orwell darts.

'Don't replace obsolete laws with newfangled ones, especially if you cannot be counted on to enforce them with equity.'

FREE YOURSAY 'There's a fine line between deception and blatant lies. What this filth of a newspaper condones is nothing short of the latter.'

FREE YOURSAY 'You talk about ‘fisabilillah' (the way of Allah), yet you forget that lying is one of the three characteristics of a ‘munafiq'.'