Archive - 6 August 2012

This will be paid out after Aidilfitri and the actual date will be decided by the prime minister, says Felda Group chairman Isa Samad.

Islam should be placed at the highest level so that a lot of problems faced by Muslims can be overcome, the prime minister says.

Three men were fined RM700 each, in default 14 days’ jail, by the magistrate’s court in Kuala Lumpur today for pasting up posters containing pictures and words which insulted Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and former Bar Council president S Ambiga.

UPDATED 7.45PM She describes in her RM100 million defamation suit how she felt being called ‘cow minister of the year' by PKR Wanita chief Zuraida Kamaruddin.

Unisel's woes only started in 2008, proving that this is due to Pakatan Rakyat's mismanagement, blogs former MB Dr Mohd Khir Toyo.

A three-man panel headed by Justice Apandi Ali ruled that the appellant had put forward the same arguments and issues raised at the High Court.

Fire gutted the first floor of a two-storey house belonging to Alleycats vocalist, the late A Loganathan, in George Town today.

UPDATED 8PM The appellate court made the unanimous decision today, after High Court declined to rule on the matter last week.

The Bukit Gantang MP calls on readers of The Star to refer to his original tweet in Bahasa Malaysia to understand what he really said.

The DAP parliamentary leader says this will mitigate the ‘deplorable attempt by BN to hijack the National Day celebrations’.

Health Minister Liow Tiong Lai also calls on the opposition and NGOs not to politicise the use of cyanide in gold mining in Raub.

The video features Namewee in a short monologue praising Lee, before launching into a song promoting his upcoming film Hantu Gangster.

At a 4% rate, the GST will bring in RM8 billion to RM9 billion for the government, says economist Yeah Kim Leng.

UPDATED 5.10PM Phang wants the police and MACC to probe the allegations against Abdul Gani Patail in the book by lawyer Zainal Abidin Ahmad.

UPDATED 6.20PM Shahrizat disclaims any knowledge that her husband had put in a bid for the cattle-rearing project.

The decision comes after a former Penang Municipal Council staff member says special development projects can be revoked in the public interest.

Continuous heavy rain for more than four hours since 3am has caused several roads in George Town to be under water due to flash floods.

UPDATED 5.25PM Syabas claims says the Selangor gov't has stymied its work to replace water pipes and repair leaks.

The anti-graft body says it had once formed a three-member panel to probe the attorney-general over Anwar Ibrahim’s black eye-incident.

Lee Chong Wei will be greeted as a  hero when he returns home although he failed to win the gold medal at the London Olympics.

Has Chua Tee Yong pursued the NFC with the same tenacity that he has shown in the Talam debt recovery exercise, asks Tony Pua.

UPDATED 5.15PM Its COO Lee Miang Koi said this was the consensus of residents at a public briefing at Balakong today. [VIDEO INSIDE]

DAP’s arch-nemesis says the rep should instead comfort Lee Chong Wei, who received a silver medal for his efforts last night.

UPDATED 2.23PM In what can be seen as another image-boosting spectacle, the PM says he is looking forward to the occasion.

The public dialogue with the chief minister turned out to be a tame affair, although rivals criticised the responses to issues raised.

Twitterjaya is up in arms over the Kota Alam Shah assemblyperson’s tweets, slamming him for his ‘idiocy’ and ‘foot-in-mouth disease’.

It is a sincere move by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to assist states with less economic development, says the Umno Youth chief.

'I challenge them to prove it is other people's song... I'm ready to be dragged to court," says the minister on the 'Janji Ditepati' song.

Badminton, regarded as the most likely sport to contribute a gold medal, managed only a silver through Lee Chong Wei.

Why did she add to Lee Chong Wei’s pressures?

Najib says the federal gov't had never denied the rights of the Kelantan people, including the payment claim from petroleum revenue.

COMMENT A wind of change is blowing. My prayer and hope is that it can change our circumstances through renewal of our hearts.

INTERVIEW He says the state’s water panel was told that the capacity to produce treated water was 4,960 million litres a day.

FREE YOURSAY 'I've given Proton more than enough time... I don't owe Proton a living. Neither does any Malaysian.'

FREE YOURSAY ‘Better let them have their way: play the ‘Janji Ditepati' song and the whole world can judge our Merdeka circus.'

FREE YOURSAY 'They think that their aspirations are also the nation's aspirations. Just how wrong can they get?'

'I had asked around whether anyone had ever heard of any ‘urination' incident, and nobody has ever heard of it before.'

FREE YOURSAY 'The campaign has now recruited the likes of filmmaker Shuhaimi Baba with her blatant lies on celluloid to demonise DAP.'