Archive - 24 December 2012

Flood waters continue to force the evacuation of those in the two East Coast states.

'I admire his guts in making sure the truth was heard and I enjoyed being his junior in the cabinet,' Shahrizat Jalil says.

A three-member panel led by Justice Clement Allan Skinner felt that the court was satisfied that there were special circumstances.

The contribution is presented by the director-general of Jasa, Fuad Hassan, who is accompanied by the hospital's president Ng Beh Tong.

A Tunisian says that he felt 'uneasy in front of all this luxury that is insulting to ordinary Tunisians struggling to get by.'

UPDATED 5.45PM Kuantan has been crippled by severe flooding, which residents describe as the worst in four decades.

The coalition is capable of wresting back 20 seats to help secure two-thirds majority, says Umno information chief Ahmad Maslan.

Malaysiakini’s assessment rate searches with DBKL on the four properties show that they are owned by nondescript individuals.

Bottled drinking water distributed by Selangor BN do not contain information required by law, says PKR consumer bureau chief Yahya Shari. [VIDEO INSIDE]

The Beruas MP says the only CEC member who was not in favour on the matter was DAP national chairperson Karpal Singh.

Umno MP says Malaysians should take pride in the fact that despite living in a multiracial country, they are able to maintain harmony.

UPDATED 7.10PM Anak is facing a tough time as pro-BN groups block their attempts to visit several Felda settlements.

UPDATED 4.15PM The land, he says, was acquired through a purchase of the company awarded the 10,526ha of land by the state gov't.

UPDATED 3.40PM The immense wealth of the Sarawak CM’s son gets airing during the Syariah Court proceedings.

Ex-EC head Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman says Bersih 2.0 and the PSC's recommendations do not address structural problems.

Padang Serai MP Gobalakrishnan says the mandate is important for Najib to continue the transformation programmes.

UPDATED 7PM Among the prime candidates for Najib’s vetting exercise is surely the Sarawak CM, says Teo Nie Ching.

Harping on the Kelantan hair salon ruckus, the MCA chief in his Christmas message heaps praises on Najib’s ‘inclusive’ policies.

MP SPEAKS Can Najib Abdul Razak walk the talk he is selling to his BN candidates, by subjecting his own allegations to scrutiny?

DAP sec-gen Lim Guan Eng says if BN is truly a people-centric gov't, it can also bring peace by settling the issue.

UPDATE 8.08PM Major downpour - in Kelantan, 199 people were evacuated, while evacuees in Terengganu were 707, Pahang, 440 and Johor, 16.

MM2H programme officials say Asians are now the typical applicants, led by post-quake Japanese and increasingly affluent Chinese.

The oft-asked question is why now?

UPDATED 11.15AM In granting the stay pending an appeal, KL High Court judge Amelia Tee imposes several conditions for his bail.

FREE YOURSAY ‘Soon everybody will write like S Thayaparan or Terence Netto and talk like that 'correct, correct, correct' lawyer, so how?'

FREE VOXPOP 'Superbikers are often rogues on the highway, zooming past me at over 150kph. I nearly killed some of them...'

FREE YOURSAY 'Both lawyers Cecil Abrahim and son Sunil are articulate men. Let them clear their names themselves.'

FREE YOURSAY 'In BN, there are no two-eyed men and it is therefore assumed that morons like Zainuddin Maidin are great intellectuals.'