Archive - 2 August 2012

The 'Janji Ditepati (Promises Kept)' song is still at the processing stage and has yet to be finalized for the 55th Merdeka Day celebrations on Aug 31, said its composer Jasnie Mohd Yaakub.

A five-member Federal Court panel finds there was no basis for Karpal’s claim of ‘coram failure’ after hearing submissions from both sides.

A civil servant threatened his neighbour with a paintball gun in Kampung Raja in Besut after his child was awakened by fireworks yesterday afternoon.  

Cuepacs has proposed a fixed housing allowance adjustment across the board to RM450 per month and reduction of housing loan interest from four percent to one percent.

UPDATED 7.44PM It says it has the technical know-how and a healthy balance sheet to do the LRT project.

The meeting was also attended by, among others, Minister in the PM's Dept Nazri Aziz and AG Abdul Gani Patail.

UPDATED 7.36PM Its commanding officer tells Suhakam at the Bersih 3.0 inquiry they had trained standing under the hot sun while being verbally abused.

The government is urged to remove Abdul Gani Patail as AG unless the latter addresses a long list of allegations against him for abuse of power.

The DOE website stated that 83 percent of the country had moderate API while 16 percent recorded good air quality.

Air pollutant readings broke records going back to 1999, except for levels reached when a natural dust storm hit the city two years ago.

The High Court allowed lawyer Mohd Khairul Azam Abdul Aziz to amend his statement of claim in a suit against the Malaysian Bar and Bar Council.

UPDATED 5.15PM NECF sounds the call for more Christians be vigilant when they cast their ballots.

UPDATED 6.15PM The rally was calm until Azmin Ali and Anwar Ibrahim riled up the crowd, an FRU leader told the Suhakam inquiry.

The Penang state government has been accused of being dogmatic for allegedly not wanting to release information on affordable housing.

UPDATED 5.15PM Rafizi provides a sneak peek at how its policy can benefit existing car owners. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 7.15PM 'The prosecution had never proven that Khir was a public servant; the Penal Code does not embrace MBs'.

UPDATED 5.20PM PKR says that the gravity of the allegations against the Najib administration warrants an RCI to unravel the matter.

UPDATED 4.55PM Ramli Yusuff says the summons charge is the last of five charges which he had been accused of since 2007.

UPDATED 4.10PM In order to train and protect them, Rafizi announces the formation of the National Oversight and Whistleblowers Centre. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 3.25PM The PKR de facto leader says this is a challenge to the Umno/BN leaders to reconsider their sectarian, partisan approach.

Kedah Umno Youth has expressed the hope that the party leadership would allow its representatives to contest eight seats in the next general election.

UPDATED 3PM This follows the defection of Tuaran MP Wilfred Bumburing and and Beaufort MP Lajim Ukin from BN last weekend.

COMMENT Political parties which fail the test of integrity will suffer the consequences in the new politics after the next general election.

This marks the latest in the defamation case against PKR's strategic director Rafizi Ramli and PKR Wanita chief Zuraida Kamaruddin.

Are the scriptwriters in a bottomless pit?

The opposition leader had filed a defamation suit in 2008 against Saiful Bukhari Azlan over the former aide’s claims of being sodomised.

UPDATED 3.40PM Five years ago, the then-ACA had charged the lawyer with allegedly not following procedures to declare his assets.

The defaced website's contents were replaced with anti-Umno messages supporting PKR's strategic director Rafizi Ramli.

PODCAST Pastor Sivin Kit explains why Christians in the country have become increasingly politically aware and even politically active.

Never before has social media expressed such disgust and rejection over an issue like the theme song for the 55th Merdeka Day.

‘To be honest I don't know (who produced it). That one was handled by a management agent,' says Lisa Surihani.

FREE YOURSAY 'At Bersih 3.0, they beat up photographers and confiscate their cameras, but in this instance...'

FREE YOURSAY 'The movement is now seen as a spent force and not all think Waythamoorthy can redress the situation.'

FREE YOURSAY ‘Perfect slogan! Let's not call it Pakatan's or someone's slogan... It should belong to all Malaysians.'

EXCLUSIVE This time it was to smear Anwar Ibrahim just days before last year's Sarawak election. [VIDEO INSIDE]