Archive - 5 January 2013

Deputy Finance Minister Awang Adek Hussin says the extension was to provide opportunities for eligible unmarried people aged 21 years to apply.

The list will be issued by seven companies - Celcom, Maxis, Digi, U Mobile, Clixster, Tune Talk and YTL Communications.

'The opposition says it wants to make changes. Is the change for the better or worse? Not all changes will be for the better...'

Malaysians voting abroad have to first register with the Election Commission and get themselves certified as eligible voters first.

COMMENT In the face of ferocious attacks, the veteran politician insists on walking tall where party polls results errors are concerned.

Catholic Bishop Paul Tan hails the PAS deputy president’s assurance that Christians can call God, ‘Allah’ in Bahasa.  

The prime minister says there are other factors which caused flood, namely the monsoon season and global warming.

The show is to climax in Stadium Merdeka but organisers are keeping their fingers crossed that the application for its use will be approved.

PM Najib has set up a special committee to review such demands to satisfy all parties, says Kelantan Umno chief Awang Adek.

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones is the saying. But in this case it should be people in glass houses shouldn't undress.

More details on the period and the contents of the '1Malaysia Integration Programme' with AirAsia would be announced by AirAsia next week.

Gerakan Youth's Oh Tong Keong questions the mechanisms and usefulness of the card targetted at 10 million recipients.

'We should go through some of the teething problems with the new terminal and once it is ready, then KLIA2 will be fully operational,' he says.

‘The Bali massacres put steel in the government to combat fundamentalism, including the use of the softer weapon: Sufi Islam'.

An MCMC spokesperson says the move was in response to numerous public complaints of difficulty to access the MCMC's website.

As at 10am today, the number of flood victims placed at three relief centres in the two states remained unchanged from last night at 47.

'Through muzakarah (discussion), there is only discussion on the ummah's problems,' says Fazlan, a member of the audience.

COMMENT 'It is sad to see the DPM begin the new year with low class politicking, that the people of S'gor have been fooled by Pakatan.'

UPDATED 3.39PM ‘When the police arrived they wasted time in deciding under which police station’s jurisdiction the case fell,’ he says.

FREE YOURSAY ‘Bar Council, you are constituted of learned men and women. Be a partner in good, not in evil.'

COMMENT 'I apologise for the length of this reply but since this is the election season and as someone whose writing is pro-opposition, I wish to state my...'

Money the Japanese gov't allegedly handed over to Malaysia not seen by the survivors or their heirs, claims ex-Perak MB.

FREE YOURSAY ‘Yes, Pakatan rule would be very dangerous. But only for those who abused their powers in the past.'

FREE YOURSAY ‘Many things can be destroyed in five years, said Mahathir. But are you speaking based on your own experience of destroying the judiciary...'

FREE YOURSAY 'The party doesn't conduct an election every week or month, so how can an event of this importance be managed so shabbily?'