Archive - 22 October 2012

Assets seized during investigations into crime involving illegal financial schemes using gold can only be dealt with through a court order.

The RM319.9 million telecommunications work package goes to Apex Communication Sdn Bhd-LG CNS Consortium, MRT Corp announces.

This is with some five million Chinese, including tourists and students, entering Malaysia each year, says Home Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.

'The Selangor gov't’s plan to install membrane filters at water treatment plants is not practical as it is not only costly but will not add more water.'

Frills-free airline AirAsia Bhd is now positive on its impending shift to the new low-cost carrier terminal KILA2 in Sepang, group chief executive officer Tony Fernandes said today.

Sabahans will gain handsomely if Pakatan Rakyat takes over, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng tells a fund-raising dinner in Kota Kinabalu.

UPDATED 7.15PM PARLIAMENT He says the RM40 million was wired into an account and not on Michael Chia then.

'We will not hesitate to take action against those taking the law into their own hands by setting up the road block or those inciting others...'.

Magistrate Mohd Firdaus Ramlan was sent to prison today to serve his three-year jail term after losing his final appeal at the Court of Appeal.

UPDATED 7.30PM PARLIAMENT Chua is called 'insolent' for backing Heng's accusation that Nik Aziz encouraged rape.

Shares of Astro dropped as much as 9 percent on its second day of trading today as investors fretted over its near-term prospects.

Jawi prosecutor in affidavit filed with FT Syariah High Court agrees the action against Borders manager Nik Raina be heard by the civil court first.

'Failing that, a 50pct increase to 7.5pct would also be good. I am confident this can be negotiated,' says Syed Abas Syed Ali.

Norizan, who is recovering from slashes to the abdomen and hands, denied the attack was related to politics or his fight against LGBT activities.

UPDATED 4.25PM PARLIAMENT 'When the evidence became clear it was political funding, ICAC said okay,' claims MP.

Enough demonising by the media and harassment by the gov't, says Suaram, which is taking Scorpene issue to the people.

The auditor-general's department has clarified that Malaysiakini had used the wrong word to describe the missing link to the RM20 mil 'bridge to nowhere'.

UPDATED 7PM However, the terms of the settlement will only be recorded in court tomorrow, in front of High Court judge Nik Hasmat Nik Mohamad.

UPDATED 2.40PM Most road deaths involve m-bikers, but William Leong says the ministry has failed to 'lift a finger'. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Its chief Ibrahim Ali says even its rebuke of Dr Chua Soi Lek was not ‘fundamental’ enough a reason to oppose the BN party.

Several native village chiefs join Himpunan Rakyat Cameron to protest the Ulu Jelai hydroelectric dam project, and other environmental woes.

Najib can afford to wait to call for the general election, but if he waits, other people will also be ready, NST quotes the ex-PM as saying.

UPDATED 6.15PM State gov't says RM6.4 million in losses suffered by Kedah Corporation Bhd was due to loan and management costs.

UPDATED 2.20PM PARLIAMENT However, the Minister in the PM's Dept stops short of declaring that Malaysia is an Islamic state.

UPDATED 12.50PM He had made the application on grounds that the charge was contrary to Article 8 over equality before the law.

UPDATED 2.29PM He says Perkasa members are gagged from giving statements to the ‘Soros-linked’ portal.

UPDATED 1.40PM PARLIAMENT The Speaker says the House has no business taking a minister's pay away. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Disappointed and tired of being fed lies.

AUDIT REPORT Despite RM382,098 being spent on developing cataloguing, no artifacts, including skulls, were catalogued.

Ambiga was hailed as a hero in Kedah yesterday, but denies any possibility that she or her Bersih colleagues would turn politicians.

The press conference by the ex-police chief, posted on the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand website, is ‘cancelled'.

COMMENT Elegant catchphrases backed by evocative images endow the campaign of Pakatan's drum major with novel intensity.

FREE VOXPOP Transport Minister Kong Cho Ha, if you truly want to save lives, then light up the entire stretch of the North-South Expressway.

FREE YOURSAY In this age of new politics and policy debates, these dinosaurs choose to get personal - down and dirty too.

FREE YOURSAY 'I have been in Malaysia for almost 50 years and what have I got? Nothing! I will vote for Pakatan.'