Archive - 2 July 2013

Asean and the United States have agreed to strengthen cooperation in several areas, including cyber security, education and human trafficking.

PARLIAMENT Quoting WikiLeaks, Liang Teck Meng says the opposition leader has this sum stashed away in four countries.

The Sessions Court hearing the case of a man charged with raping an underage girl whom he later married, was informed that his DNA was found in the vaginal swab taken from the girl.

Chong Chieng Jen says NRD has come up with a policy that a newborn child will follow the mother’s nationality if the parents are not married.

UPDATED 7.30PM The conversion of a minor to Islam by a single parent already exists in the FT Islamic law, says the M'sian Syarie Lawyers Association.

Sri Andalas state assemblyperson Dr Xavier Jayakumar moots a law to prevent people from drinking in parks and football fields.

The case involves PKR veep Tian Chua, Sultan Idris University of Education student Adam Adli Abd Halim and four other opposition activists.

PARLIAMENT Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi says granting of citizenship in Sarawak, however, was going on as usual.

The ill-fated boat capsized on May 28 due to a series of accidents, including hitting a log and developing engine failure.

Its assistant governor Norzila Abdul Aziz said BNM will recycle fit banknotes of the RM1 and RM5 dominations to conserve the environment.

Despite the latest damning allegation against Taib Mahmud, the MACC does not appear keen to initiate fresh probes on its own.

SABAH RCI Maming Saleng of Indonesia says he and around 20 of his co-workers at a logging camp received their blue identity cards.

UPDATED 6.20PM The earthquake occurred 65km southwest of Lhokseumawe, and recorded a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale.

The Multimedia Commission and the police have set up a special team to investigate the invasion of local Internet domains.

Phang’s counsel, Sankara Nair, tells reporters that High Court Judge Nik Hasmat Nik Mohamad recorded the settlement in chambers.

PARLIAMENT ‘People like this do not deserve to be in this country. I ask him to migrate,’ says the Kinabatangan MP.

State opposition leader Jahara Hamid says Barisan Nasional assemblypersons have provided services in their constituencies for years.

UPDATED 5.40PM MIC president G Palanivel says he raised issues relating to the proposed amendment at last week's cabinet meeting.

UPDATED 2.55PM SABAH RCI Geographical factors, and not religion, led to Filipinos being given such a status, says Alias Ahmad.

The governor’s address to the new session of the state legislative assembly had 'some words often used by Lim Guan Eng'.

According to the Malaysian Meteorological Department’s website, this situation could cause strong winds of 50kph and choppy seas.

Prophet Muhammad sent a child back to the mother because she was not a convert, says Anwar Ibrahim. [VIDEO]

UPDATED 2.27PM Minister Shahidan Kassim says 130 Malay-Muslim NGOs allege that the opposition is funding the cybertroopers.

UPDATED 12.55PM It rejects a DAP leader’s suggestion, saying it is ready to field a candidate and will not give the BN a walkover.

Muhammad Firdaus Mohd Ramli and a company manager are accused of accepting RM80,000 to use a travel agency's vehicles for GE13 observers.

The AG has lost all legitimacy.

UPDATED 2.25PM She submits a Private Members’ Bill to the Parliament secretary’s office, and hopes it will be tabled for debate.

UPDATED 2.37PM PARLIAMENT They say the government failed to identify the intruders as terrorists until police officers in Lahad Datu were attacked.

UPDATED 3.15PM PARLIAMENT Deputy Miti Minister Hamim Samuri says a Myvi or Saga is cheaper than a Honda Brio.

FREE YOURSAY 'So it takes a minister to affirm that the crime situation is real? While when ordinary citizens were being robbed...'?'

UPDATED 2.15PM Speaking to the press this morning, he says the Malay version of the bill is not in line with the English version.

Without a single electoral seat to its name, the party may send a representative to the state legislative assembly sittings.

COMMENT Delayed reaction to an episode of last year only serves to underscore the sometimes troubled ties between Penang PKR and DAP.

COMMENT I would recognise two main principles in reducing crime, and find the means to implement programmes for public safety.

The gov't should find its claws and fearlessly dig into the meat of the matter. Only then may we see a reduction in illicit cigarettes.

FREE YOURSAY 'The cabinet has decided then that there was to be no unilateral conversion of minors. How come now it's deemed permissible?'

The police may not be adequately trained to extract information without the use of force, says senior lawyer V Sithambaram.

FREE YOURSAY 'Being in BN does not mean you support unjust laws. It's time for all righteous MPs to make a stand.'

Muhyiddin's latest remarks on FT Islamic bill raise ‘equal parts of expectation and trepidation', claims a Catholic bishop.

Amending the FT Islamic law on child conversion will be morally wrong, Penang Gerakan's Baljit Singh tells backbenchers.