Archive - 20 September 2012

Sabah BN has given Pakatan Rakyat and other opposition parties one month to release their 'shadow cabinet' list.

A number of areas in the west coast of the peninsula were affected by hazy weather today.

UPDATED 7.55PM 'Initial checks revealed that the flawed picture was discovered at the source from where it was sent.'

Malaysia’s Islamic banks need to expand further into South-East Asia to play a greater role in the management of international Islamic bonds, or sukuk, Malaysia’s Central Bank governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz said today.

Hindraf leader is not a threat to any party and would in no way threaten the Indian community’s support for the gov't, says MIC chief.

UPDATED 7.45PM It is too easy, says Najib as he feels one cannot just apologise for saying something hurtful only after receiving backlash for it.

UPDATED 7.30PM ‘If the election is called, we can just postpone the AGM. We might have it or we might not have it,’ says the Umno president.

The Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA) Syura Council today lodged a police report over the circulation of a letter, purportedly written by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, to IIUM rector Prof Dr Zaleha Kamaruddin.

Satellite broadcaster Astro has attracted strong interest from institutional investors for its US$1.5 billion initial public offering in Malaysia, Dow Jones Newswires said today.

Group chief executive officer and AirAsia Bhd director Tony Fernandes says Sabah is strategically located in the BIMP-EAGA.

Independent MP Tan Tee Beng lashes out at Komtar assemblyperson Ng Wei Aik for implying that his father is corrupt.

It says it never meant to offend anyone by posting the guideline for 'female bosses', but had only wanted to share the information posted by MedikTV.

The MAA attributes the performance to a short working month due to the Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Merdeka Day holidays.

'However, the ministry does not intend to issue set guidelines to curb the LGBT phenomenon,' says Deputy Minister Dr Mohd Puad Zarkashi.

COMMENT Ex-Sabah Umno leader tells why he left the party to join PKR, explains his reasons why it's the time for change.

He says either the bill of RM206.5 billion in the first year alone will drive M'sia to ruin, or it does not intend to fulfill its promises.

UPDATED 5.35PM A law lecturer with Universiti Islam Antarabangsa opines that Section 114A accords leeway for the defence of the accused.

Malaysians have grown so tired of bullying.

The Atomic Energy Licensing Board (AELB) denies having issued an official statement banning the use of radioactive pendants.

UPDATED 5.10PM Perak DAP chief apologises and retracts his Twitter posting on Muslim outrage over a US movie that insulted Islam.

UPDATED 4.22PM ‘(Neo-liberalism), if not contained will threaten our cultural mores,’ warns Jasa DG Fuad Hassan.

So, what is the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission doing about this and about the earlier reports made, Sarawakians ask.

The Perak DAP chief continues to receive much flak for his Twitter message touching on anti-Islam movie ‘Innocence of Muslims'.

The event, organised on Facebook, is aimed at opposing guidelines that are purported to help identify symptoms of homosexuality.

UPDATED 1.55PM A total of 255 tables will be put up at Stadium Melawati in Shah Alam, to raise close to RM1 million for Pakatan's election battle.

UPDATED 5.45PM As a responsible boss, Lim Guan Eng should have declared Ngeh's tweet as unacceptable, says Khairy.

Malaysia and China have signed the protocol on entry of bird’s nests into China which entails examination, quarantine and hygiene.

UPDATED 4.30PM ‘The deal resulted in Ananda Krishnan and Genting Bhd profiting by RM1.9 billion,’ says PKR's Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad.

UPDATED 3.12PM The Centre for Policy Initiatives claims that the plan exposes this serious crisis without saying as much.

MP SPEAKS Lim Kit Siang says the MCA chief’s claims on hudud are all lies as there isn’t enough Muslim MPs to push it through.

Four officers and two cops are denied entry into Suaram's premises, but the NGO says ROS has no authority since it is not a society.

UPDATED 2.30PM The domestic trade minister is criticised for saying Suaram would be charged, before the probe is even completed.

P Kathir Oli was shot point blank, with the barrel of the gun pressed against his chest outside a pub last year.

It's like buying things for people during the New Year and this cannot be considered to be corruption, says the MCA president.

COMMENT The world is not black and white. Even for the colour blind, there are shades of grey.

The world is not black and white. Even for the colour blind, there are shades of grey (indeed, as many as ahem, Fifty Shades of Grey!).

UPDATED 4.40PM Australian activists rally this afternoon in solidarity with Kuantan residents over the Lynas plant in Gebeng.

FREE YOURSAY 'I don't see Australia importing radioactive earth and soil by the boatloads from Malaysia any time soon.'

'MCA president should know what this is as he had gone through such an experience when his sex video surfaced'.

COMMENT Najib has got bigger concerns to worry about than his whole 1Malaysia charade and baiting the Chinese.

FREE YOURSAY ‘There is absolutely nothing real about Najib except perhaps his real love for opulence and all the trimmings of power.'

FREE YOURSAY 'What these sycophantic media failed to realise is that the age of duping the rakyat is now over.'

FREE VOXPOP ‘Even citizens in third world countries residing overseas are allowed to vote. So why is this not possible in Malaysia?'