Archive - 17 June 2013

Consider a boycott of crony firms.

The Registrar of Societies now wants DAP to present more proof of a mistake made in vote counting for its central executive committee election.

The Youth and Sports Minister explains the proposal to build a class-one covered velodrome was not yet finalised and is still being discussed.

This is in response to the Perkasa veep's claim that putting the EC under Parliament was a bid to dilute the Agong's power.

The five-member panel finds the breach of the undertaking by M Kayveas and Blanche O'Leary ‘clearly amounted to grave impropriety’.

UPDATED 7.40PM According to Khairy Jamaluddin, the people want stern action on custodial deaths and abuse of power.

The three-month study dubbed 'Suara Hati Johor' is expected to produce useful output for policies to be implemented by the state government.

SABAH RCI The Semporna municipality faced threats from water villages under its jurisdiction before six police officers were killed during Sulu incursion.

Lawyers M Manoharan and P Uthayakumar were seeking a declaration that all 523 Tamil primary schools in M'sia should be fully aided.

UPDATED 6.50PM A coalition of Muslim NGOs urges PM Najib to select those who are loyal and possess ‘commendable character of a Muslim’.

UPDATED 6.10PM SABAH RCI It is noted that he arrived in 1984 and obtained an IC two years later using a statutory declaration.

The international trade and industry minister said there must be courtesy in making criticism when things got heated at the Kelantan state assembly.

The Kelantan gov't launched the project in May last year to build a highway between Kota Baru and Kuala Krai, to be funded by public donations.

The air quality has improved with only four places recording unhealthy levels based on the Air Pollutant Index (API) as compared to six, yesterday.

Justice is served if the perpetrator is charged under Penal Code to properly reflect the gravity of the crime committed, says gender equality group.

'I agree with competition but if there is competition, Umno will be split into two,’ explains the former party head and former premier.

He says this is to enable an inquest and the NRD to issue a death certificate so that hawker Lim Chin Aik’s family can make insurance claims.

UPDATED 5.12PM The panel has come to a unanimous decision, but cites the party constitution for not disclosing it immediately.

As for suggestion that it is ‘undemocratic’, the Umno sec-gen says no such concern was voiced out during the supreme council meeting.

DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang reads between the lines on Prime Minister Najib Razak’s calls to regain lost ground in BN's ‘war of perception’.

INTERVIEW Selangor exco member Teng Chang Khim may also equip council enforcers with electric batons. [VIDEO]

SABAH RCI Some of the illegal immigrants who came forward to register themselves already had blue ICs or NRD receipts.

New minister Shahidan Kassim says the Chinese must first be willing to share power and abandon their alleged 'racism'.

INTERVIEW Jeram voters were paid to vote for BN, then made to vow in Allah's name they did so, says defeated PAS candidate.

It is 'shameful' for Minister Abdul Rahman Dahlan to claim that fate had helped BN to win in the GE13, says DAP's Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching.

UPDATED 2.30PM In response, Gerakan tells Ng Wei Aik not to 'harp on things that can create hatred'.

Making graft suspects declare their assets ‘when there is no proof of corruption’ could lead to abuse, argues Nancy Shukri.

The police will have nothing to fear about the IPCMC if they are indeed professional and act above board.

Election Commission chief Abdul Aziz Yusuf says Pakatan must, through its petitions, clearly show the EC has cheated and broken the law.

ANALYSIS How will Umno use its suddenly, and perhaps unexpectedly, augmented domination of the nation’s political life?

However, EC head Abdul Aziz insists that the indelible ink issue cannot be used to accuse the EC of allowing voters to cheat in GE13.

UPDATED 11.43AM Building structures near the crater in Jalan Macalister 'may be at risk if the digging continues'. [VIDEO]

COMMENT He has morphed from Islamist-democrat to be emulated to the kind of authoritarian democrats everywhere revile.

Foo Jia Mint, claims to have seen missing hawker Lim Chin Aik’s spirit at the crater where his body is believed to be trapped.

FREE YOURSAY 'The norm now seems to be that they can beat Indian detainees to death without any action being taken against them.'

FREE VOXPOP 'The KLIA2 low-cost terminal fiasco sounds like a broken record - cost overruns and long delays. So what else is new?'

FREE YOURSAY 'Mahathir has allowed easy access of his friends (read: cronies) to national resources and to rent-seek them for a song.'

FREE YOURSAY 'And tell Mahathir also that he is the cause of BN losing two-thirds majority and not winning Selangor back.'