Archive - 10 November 2012

Some 476 motions from 191 divisions will be up for debate at Umno general assembly 2012 at PWTC from Nov 27 to Dec 1.

Perak Man will be brought home to Lenggong after the infrastructure and facilities to preserve the pre-historic skeletal remains are ready.

Americans re-elected Obama as president for another four years just to see the continuity of his transformation agendas.

The trio have been remanded for investigation into a report lodged by a foreign national who claimed that she was forced to have sex with them.

The prefabricated houses for the second generation of Felda settlers would be built at a cost of RM70,000 each.

The 12-day protest march from Kuantan to KL - to kick off next Tuesday - is expected to involve hundreds of participants.

He questions the state government’s decision in taking over of a 7.32 ha land belonging to Yayasan Selangor in Klang.

The PM completed the third round payment of windfall to Felda new generation of RM5,000 to 112,635 families involving RM563.2 million.

The census data for 2000 reported 6,800 girls below 15 years old as married, with Selangor, Penang, Malacca, Johor and Kedah being the top five states.

UPDATED 6.32PM The occupants of former KTMB land stage a protest as the court orders their eviction with no relocation in sight.

It can sell the land to the state BN on the condition that the title for the land will not be transferred to any party.

'If you already have conditions, what is the point of the meeting in the first place?', says the party's secretary-general.

PKR’s Chang Lih Kang notes that Beta Tegap has failed to mention their major shareholder’s mother, also a prominent Umno leader.

Waythamoorthy declined to disclose the plan, but said one of the solutions concerns the estimated 350,000 stateless Indians.

Malaysian National Space Agency refutes rumour claiming that the world will be in darkness for three days from Dec 23 during the alignment of the universe.

INTERVIEW Cops quizzed him on his bank account; whether he visited any Arab countries apparently to link him to foreign NGOs.

COMMENT ‘Tengku Adnan cannot be more wrong in claiming that Umno's biggest problem in GE13 is the perception that it is a corrupt party.’

COMMENT ‘Whether one is selling products or hiring staff, the racial factor is part of the calculus of business,' says Koon Yew Yin.

MACC passes the buck to the deputy public prosecutor, claiming the latter has found evidence to press charges lacking.

FREE YOURSAY 'You express what we feel so eloquently and simply that we can't help but feel touched by your letter.'

COMMENT 'Malaysians are routinely attacked for raising this issue even though freedom of religion is enshrined in our constitution.'

FREE VOXPOP 'Ahmad Abd Jalil gave his opinion and he gets nailed. The bad and ugly get off the hook, the good get stranded.'

A pro-Pakatan group stages a rally in front of the transport minister's parliamentary service centre in Sitiawan, Lumut.

FREE YOURSAY 'Kohilan's lie was exposed and now I reckon he probably will claim he couldn't remember approving it...'

FREE YOURSAY 'True believers can never be coerced, either to embrace a new religion or to leave the religion that they believed in.'

' Why is Umno making a fuss? What she did is in keeping with the saying that returning to truth is better than remaining in lies.'