Archive - 23 July 2012

UPDATED 11.10PM Tithe payment for 2011 amounting to RM30.6 million was presented to 14 state zakat collection centres in Putrajaya today.

The Bandar Utama land that SJK Tamil Effingham pupils, teachers, parents and alumni said was taken by the MIC is to be returned.

The defence in the murder trial of cosmetic millionaire Sosilawati Lawiya and three others failed in their attempt to get three deputy public prosecutors (DPPs) to be called as witnesses when the
High Court in Shah Alam today rejected their application.

PKR’s Senator Syed Husin Ali says the total illicit outflow of money from the country for the last decade amounted to US$337 billion.

They had no problems relocating although the response at the new location was less encouraging, says a spokesperson.

Upko deputy president, together with Umno's Lajim Ukin, have for months kept speculators on their toes.

This is far below the 4.5 percent national average in the Statistics Dept's Household Income and Basic Amenities Survey Report 2009.

South Korean police said today they have arrested an Indonesian woman for a scam related to Japan’s earthquake and tsunami disaster in March last year.

Perzim says the upgrading works were to preserve and maintain the originality of the well’s natural structure.

Malaysian citizens in Syria will be evacuated using chartered flights and not Charlie aircraft of the Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF).

Judicial commissioner Vazeer Alam Mydin Meera needs more time to study additional submissions filed by the government last Wednesday.

UPDATED 6.50PM PAS organ Harakah Daily reports that Deputy Housing Minister Lajim Ukin met Kelantan MB today.

AirAsia Bhd says in preparation for the move, AirAsia Thailand will perform an airport code switch from ‘SVB’ to ‘DMK’ in the system.

These are circulating ahead of two forums to discuss the company’s debt restructuring exercise with the Selangor government.

Calling advocates of the illegal immigrants RCI 'anti-national' mocks the process endorsed by PM and cabinet, says DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang.

The 31-year-old vocalist was accorded the conditional release by authorities because of his good behaviour.

Former Kuala Langat OCPD Supt Mohamad Radzi Ishak pleaded not guilty to causing the deaths of two teenagers on a motorcycle four years ago.

If it fails to file the required documents, its suit against Public Bank Bhd will be struck out, the KL High Court judge has warned.

UPDATED 4.15PM Human Resources Minister Dr S Subramaniam also confirms that the EPF withdrawal age remains at 55.

UPDATED 6.15PM Dr Xavier Jayakumar blasts Putrajaya for its decision to bar state from taking over Syabas. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Public feedback on the proposed Bill has been incorporated and a revision of the bill will be available for viewing.

UPDATED 4.10PM As a result, they threw discarded water bottles and abandoned slippers at the police, an eyewitness tells a Suhakam inquiry.

Two Islamic scholars share this view, explaining why the London-bound athletes can postpone fasting till after the Olympics.

UPDATED 2.10PM Six Bersih 2.0 panel members bid to be interveners in government's RM122,000 suit against 10 of their colleagues.

It should prove that the state government does not practise ‘clean governance’, says Kedah PAS parliamentarian Mohd Firdaus Jaafar.

UPDATED 1.30PM Syabas ordered to ensure supply to areas in the Klang Valley where ‘water is not forthcoming', says DPM.

UPDATED 2PM Seda's newspaper ad campaign fails to answer pressing questions, say two opposition MPs.

UPDATED 1.20PM However, the attorney-general will review this preliminary decision, with a meeting to be called later today.

Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor kicks the ball back to Pakatan to prevent a repeat of the May 13, 1969 riots during the next polls.

UPDATED 1.10PM This may occur if the firms it approved for the FiT programme did not first conduct a Power System Study, he says.

UPDATED 2.47PM A High Court allows a preliminary objection by the four respondents who include the PAS Batu Burok assemblyperson.

Deputy Minister in the PM’s Department Ahmad Maslan says it increases trade value which will benefit the Malaysian economy.

KTM counts the cost of displaying Najib posters.

FREE YOURSAY 'When Malay voters look like they might lose interest in Umno, you give them a whiff of ‘May 13' to activate their fears.'

FREE VOXPOP 'Penang traders, don't ascribe every hindrance to an erosion of bumi rights - you can't have your cake and eat it, too.'

FREE VOXPOP 'I really had no idea that the Criminal Investigation Dept has such a small slice of the force's personnel pie.'

FREE YOURSAY 'Was it not DAP's mission, according to Umno, to convert Muslims into Christians? Now they have suddenly become communists?'