Archive - 3 October 2012

UPDATED 12.30AM 'If our economy expands at five percent, we're confident the country's debt won't hit 55 percent (of GDP),’ says PM.

UPDATED 11.45PM The PM also assures netizens that Budget 2013 looks after the middle class and focuses on security.

UPDATED 7.50PM PARLIAMENT ‘Just last season, farmers complained of substandard seedlings,’ says PAS vice-president Mahfuz Omar.

UPDATED 7.25PM Ismail Sabri says a probe on National Aerospace and Defence Industries will be made if a complaint is filed.

The Education Ministry is still maintaining the regulation prohibiting students from using mobile phones in school under its circular 2/2009.

UPDATED 7.40PM PARLIAMENT Mahfuz Omar says such incompetence has led to up to 30 Pilatus PC-7 airplanes being grounded.

PARLIAMENT A leaked document includes specific instructions that 'no bills should be claimed from the CM'.

Three state firms received only RM20 under Talam debt restructuring deal, says MCA's young professionals bureau chief Chua Tee Yong.

The High Court in Kuala Lumpur today fixed three days, beginning Jan 2 next year, to hear a RM50 million defamation suit filed by former Perak menteri besar Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin against Sistem Televisyen Malaysia Berhad or TV3.

The Anti ISA Movement urges the duo to apologise over the unlawful detention of five activists who were awarded RM4mil damages yesterday.

The advocacy group for petty traders has lodged a police report claiming that cloning syndicates are providing the fake document. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 7.05PM The group led by its chief Oh Tong Keong makes downpayment for the purchase of Taman Manggis land for public housing.

Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM) vice chancellor (Academic and International) Prof Ir Dr Abdul Aziz Abdul Samad claimed trial at the Sessions Court in Johor Baru today to soliciting and receiving a RM15,000 bribe from a contractor.

UPDATED 4.52PM While the Umno MP feels the PM didn't mean what he said, Teresa Kok states ex-minister Shahrizat was better.

AirAsia Bhd, the world’s leading low-cost airline, is offering extra flights for the Chinese New Year, with all-in-fares from as low as RM104 one-way from Johor Baru.

The toll rate for the North-South Expressway from Kuala Lumpur to Seremban will be lower by 60 sen from the current rate when a new multilevel interchange of the Seremban Toll Plaza is completed, said Deputy Works Minister Yong Khoon Seng.

The Penang CM questions the huge allocation for a mere 57 Kedai Rakyat 1Malaysia outlets in Sabah and Sarawak in Budget 2013.

UPDATED 4.05PM BN Youth warns that the RM1,100 proposed in the shadow budget is ‘unrealistic’. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 7.30PM Our numbers do add up, Pakatan tells MCA's young professionals bureau chief Chua Tee Yong.

PARLIAMENT Without spending big bucks, Singapore provides security for its people, notes MP Wee Choo Keong.

The number of commuting accidents increased by almost 40 percent over the past six years to 24,809 accidents last year.

UPDATED 8.15PM Azmin Ali has asked all parties including the media not to create a wedge between him and Khalid Ibrahim.

COMMENT Awer urges the government to consider the following recommendations to perhaps save billions of ringgit from being wasted.

UPDATED 3.25PM ‘We'll give the breakdown. It's (also) about ... creating omnipresence on the ground,' says Hisham.

UPDATED 2.50PM They say the PM's speech shows he doesn't realise how poorly Malaysia fares in the Global Gender Gap index.

While the Penan are among the poorest people in Malaysia, the Sarawak chief minister is said to have RM45 billion in his name.

UPDATED 3.21PM Pakatan Rakyat will hold this at the Bukit Jalil national stadium on Nov 3, announces PAS deputy chief Mat Sabu. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 2.15PM The purpose, says PKR’s Sivarasa, is to explain the facts of the Scorpene case. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 2.35PM MACC tells the anti-graft PSC that the law prevents it from acting against a state leader. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 2.13PM However, he stresses the final say on court decision that favoured M'kini is with the AG. [VIDEO INSIDE]

UPDATED 1.50PM Mohd Ali Rustam defends his son’s massive wedding, saying the 'cheap' feast cost RM600,000.

Others question the need for such a lavish do, feeling it was politically-motivated and the money could have been better spent.

It tosses small change to the people.

This is the recommendation of a group of experts working on a 20-year plan to address the country's issues, including education.

UPDATED 12.40PM The buzzword was calm, as the organiser constantly cautioned the crowd of 1,000 against any form of provocation. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Land Development Minister James Masing had said that the Penans are ignorant of the benefits of the Murum dam, resulting in them being unhappy.

The KL High Court’s ruling ‘is very significant’ as ‘a new newspaper could challenge the dominance of the government-linked media’.

The government's continued attack on messengers such as Bersih and Suaram will make their messages more powerful, says S Ambiga.

Critics of Penang CM Lim Guan Eng demand that the state builds public housing, but a trade body for developers says the duty lies elsewhere.

Naim Engineering Sdn Bhd was awarded Package S2 for works at Taman Industri Sungai Buloh, PJU 5 and Kota Damansara.

The anti-establishment student body wins all 26 seats in fresh polls held by the Universiti Islam Antarabangsa yesterday.

UPDATED 2.45PM Reportedly jailed in 2010 for holding a fake Mykad, he has evaded scrutiny in registering as a voter in Johor.

FREE YOURSAY ‘Malaysian women are what they are today because of women's rights. If Najib thinks they are at par, close down the Women's Ministry.'

The local council disclaims victimising a Penang Perkasa leader, saying it was not even aware that his relative had held a trading licence.

UPDATED 12.05PM The Federal Court has granted it leave as no objections have been raised by the federal gov't or Petronas.

FREE YOURSAY 'Umno wants to put their man in charge so that he can make trumped-up allegations, which the exiting mayor might have refused to do.'

FREE YOURSAY 'Now that it has come out in court, will Najib start an investigation on how Sarawak CM Taib got so rich?'

COMMENT Najib places great emphasis on ‘symbols' because they elicited the expected Pavlovian response from the majority...

Tibai, Perkasa and other right-wing NGOs hand over a memo to the council urging them to condemn attacks on the force.

'The inquiry is progressing and the first subpoena has reached the first witness,' says Suaram's Cynthia Gabriel.