Archive - 23 June 2013

The Education Ministry announced that schools in a number of states will be closed tomorrow due to the haze.   

The police have been asked to evict the participants of a protest gathering who insist on camping at Padang Merbok and dirtying the place.      

While there is still no indication how long the camp will last, participants appear to be making themselves at home.

A NGO wants Putrajaya to name the companies involved in 48 hours, or it will sue the gov't for negligence.

The MCA chief continues to cross swords with his deputy Liow Tiong Lai, whom he says is abusing the party's roadshow to attack the leadership.

The Health Ministry advises residents in Muar and Ledang in Johor to stay indoors and set their air conditioners to recycling mode.

UPDATED 7.44PM Anwar Ibrahim says the perception that Malays would come under threat without Umno must be tackled.

'Provisions that may burden the people or surrender our authority to other countries must be scrutinised,' says Anwar Ibrahim.

UPDATED 6.20PM DAP's Lim Guan Eng reminds Putrajaya that China won't let its pandas come here unless something is done about the haze.

This is one of 18 resolutions passed by groups at the Malay and Bumiputra Education Convention to ‘safeguard the special rights of the Malays'.

UPDATED 5.55PM Anwar says Black 505 organisers had to turn mothers and the elderly away to keep them from the harmful effects of the haze.

UPDATED 5.43PM However, he stresses that the fight against alleged GE13 fraud will continue through other avenues.

In what looks like an attempt to compromise with DBKL, SAMM has taken down 40 of its 90 tents at Padang Merbok.

UPDATED 5.31PM The PKR de facto leader says these faltering voices in Pakatan against the fight are the ‘voice of Umno’.

Mohamed Khaled Nordin says he recommended several ethnic Chinese reps at the sultan's request, and Tee was chosen for the post.

PAS vice-president Husam Musa, who is currently in the custody of the Kelantan police, will spend the next two nights in a police lock up.

Unlike in 2005, Putrajaya is not reacting as fast with its Emergency proclamation in haze stricken areas, said Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching.

DBKL enforcement officers at the site say the notice was issued at 10.15am ordering them to remove the tents they had erected there.

It's business as usual for the Selangor menteri besar, despite concerns over his health after he dozed off in public on Friday.

DAP's Ong Kian Ming says it is perfectly consistent for Pakatan to swear-in as lawmakers and protest at the same time.

'If there is enough evidence, we will take them to court,' says Indonesian Environment Minister Balthasar Kambuaya.

Malacca is also smothered in dangerous levels as two stations surpass the 301 API mark this morning, according to the DOE.

FREE YOURSAY 'The main culprit was the heat. After that, everyone was simply too exhausted to focus and join in the chants.'

FREE YOURSAY 'Then-home minister Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad had committed treason when he ordered the officers not to testify before the PSC.'

FREE YOURSAY 'The government cannot continue to remain oblivious to the many serious allegations made against the EC.'

FREE YOURSAY 'It is very irresponsible of KL police chief Mohmad Salleh to make such a false statement of an intended riot.'