Archive - 27 December 2012

PDAM president Hashim Othman says the current minimum monthly wage would be raised to RM900 for the peninsula and RM800 for Sabah and Sarawak.

Responding to MCA Youth’s call for Ngeh Koo Ham to declare his assets, Canning rep Wong Kah Woh asks if BN would do the same.

UPDATED 6.20PM An aide to Ahmad Maslan, the deputy minister in charge of Felda, had his house splashed with red paint on the front and side.

A consumer group says the people are caught in the state government's political war against Putrajaya over the water issue.

UPDATED 4.55PM AES summonses are still being issued. Once resumed, the courts will be under stress, says PAS.

The RM250mil Penang International Airport expansion project is 99pct complete and will be fully operational by early 2013.

Twittersphere is especially abuzz with jokes on what the potential cheap smartphone would do, such as sport a Najib wallpaper.

UPDATED 4.05PM 'What politicians say on this is of public interest, not sensational news. Utusan has a duty to publish the comment,' counsel says.

Tapah BN says that the local Orang Asli voters were trained on voting matters because many had spoiled them in the past.

UPDATED 4PM The PKR de facto leader says the Finance Ministry had limited involvement in such dealings.

UPDATED 3PM ‘This issue was resolved. We not only had a meeting but elaborated in discussions on the subject,’ says the PKR de facto leader.

UPDATED 3.45PM Its veep Mahfuz Omar reiterates party’s call for authorities to probe serious claims made by Deepak Jaikishan.

UPDATED 6.13PM The stock dips to RM4.53 this morning, as the six-month moratorium on initial investors of the shares ended yesterday.

If the experiment succeeds, it’s bound to introduce a new dimension in cyberspace campaigning, the rest is left to the imagination.

UPDATED 12.10PM Some 15,674 evacuees were still at relief centres in the three states as at 9am, compared to 19,958 last night.

FREE VOXPOP 'The onus now is on the Christian leaders to act. Let the Vatican and the world know. If any law is broken, seek legal redress.'

The agreement was signed on May 22, 2012, after 11 rounds of negotiations, says the International Trade and Industry Ministry.

DAP will greet the new year with the official launch of its uproarious video in four languages - BM, English, Mandarin and Tamil.

FREE YOURSAY ‘And now these BN people are trying to turn the whole story around to make it look like they are the victims.'

FREE YOURSAY 'A true friend is a person who comes to his or her aid during difficult times. They don't need fair-weather friends...'

'At the gathering of thousands of Pakatan supporters, the 'oppressed' rakyat will also air their grouses,' says organiser Adam Adli.

COMMENT P Balasubramaniam's conflicting statutory declarations shed light on the law and the dispositions of practitioners.

The settlers claim they were ‘cheated' when they entered into a contract to exclusively sell their yield to Felda Palm Industries.

QUESTION TIME It takes a lot to produce a good business news website but we will get there. Here are the things we'll focus on.

Bentong MCA members confront DAP leaders over a host of issues, including an alleged crude joke at MCA's 15 MPs. [VIDEO INSIDE]