Archive - 10 July 2013

‘Besut OCPD will facilitate you. But apply first to enable us to make security arrangements to ensure the safety of the speakers and the spectators’.

Prosecutor orders the arrest of the leaders of ousted Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, charging them with inciting violence in a clash that saw troops shoot 55 supporters dead.

The report of the organising of the Bersih 3.0 demonstration on April 28, last year was today handed over to Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi for further action.

PARLIAMENT The new LCCT cost is RM89 per passenger, as against RM478 per passenger for one in Germany, says the deputy transport minister.

Selangor Menteri Besar Abdul Khalid Ibrahim says exco members who wish to publicly declare their assets are free to do so.

UPDATED 6.35PM PARLIAMENT Siti Zailah Mohd Yusoff says short skirts and pants can lead to sexual crimes. [VIDEO]

Mosques in Kuala Besut cannot display symbols of political parties in the run up to the by-election, warns Terengganu Islamic Affairs Department.

PARLIAMENT This is in an answer to PKR's Hee Loy Sian, who says it is clear BN has no intention of keeping its election promises.

Tabung Haji is confident that the subsidy for haj pilgrims will be continued in future but the quantum depends on the profits earned from its investments.

UPDATED 5.53PM Their arrest and detention six years ago were unlawful, rules the KL High Court, which orders reparation by the government.

Judge Zaleha Yusof makes the decision after hearing ZI Publications and Mohd Ezra Mohd Zaid’s stay application in chambers.

Penang CM Lim Guan Eng also tells Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi to apologise if he cannot prove his ‘wild claim’.

Custodial death victim Cheong Fook Meng's kin demand police take responsibility and explain his sudden death.

KINIBIZ Mohd Nazifuddin Najib, son of PM Najib Abdul Razak, says that he is not going to surface as a shareholder in Eastland Equities.

The Bayan Baru MP says the decision can’t be accepted and urges the anti-graft panel to reopen the files and seek more evidence.

MP Charles Santiago claims the government failed to consult key domestic stakeholders and even asked an opposition MP sign an oath of secrecy.

In its 2012 annual report, the Human Rights Commission cites four provisions that would affect the rights of detainees.

However, Deputy Home Minister Wan Junaidi Wan Jaafar later says his ministry did not amend the question, but would not provide the details. [VIDEO]

UPDATED 4.50PM It pledges radical reforms across social, political and business arenas under the National Key Result Areas on corruption.

UPDATED 5.45PM The Kota Baru Election Court allows BN’s preliminary objection and strikes out PAS' election petition.

UPDATED 3.05PM It breaches the constitution and natural justice, and becomes the final adjudicator, says the deputy home minister.

DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang wants to know whether we have been fed false crime statistics over the past four years?

UPDATED 2.10PM The health minister says what was important is that the concerns over the Sedition Act are addressed.

The plaintiff's lawyer had told the judge that both companies had made the decision to withdraw the suit, before the proceedings started.

UPDATED 2.40PM Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar says there must be safeguard of rights, such as the right to access the judiciary.

UPDATED 4.20PM 'The PM announced the start-up of operations even before an aviation licence was considered and approved in Malaysia.'

EC announces that voters must dip their left index finger into the ink as an additional measure to prevent double-voting.

The move is to ensure that no cronies are hired or nepotism practised in the agencies, says Deputy Chief Minister II P Ramasamy.

What is the gov't position on the law now, in view of the conflicting positions of several ministers, asks Khaw Lake Tee.

FREE VOXPOP 'The moment the RM250 million was given out, there was never any intention to recover any of it.'

COMMENT 'Explain why ex-IGP Rahim Noor was charged with a criminal offence and sentenced under the Penal Code?’

FREE YOURSAY 'MCA president Chua Soi Lek would surely be singing a different tune if his ministers were sitting in the cabinet.'

Minister in the PM’s Dept Shahidan Kassim sayes this was to ensure the confidentiality and security of the ink supply.

UPDATED 4PM Asian airlines have been particularly active in tapping equity markets for capital as competition to build up routes and fleets intensifies.

COMMENT It is pointless blaming the non-Muslim cabinet representatives because most probably they are of the ‘saya setuju' ilk.

BN’s imagination runs riot.

FREE YOURSAY 'First Mahathir wanted Anwar to be made highly visible. Then he wanted the latter to be erased from memory.'

Citing the need to be ‘independent’, among other factors, Law Choo Kiang will not defend the Batu Kawan division head’s post.

COMMENT Kadir Jasin's revelation that it was Dr M who decreed Anwar's editorial demise ought to serve as a warning...

FREE YOURSAY 'A person in public service and appointed to positions of power must be clean, not in the future but in the past as well.'

‘This is Dewan Rakyat, not Dewan Elitist,' says MP N Surendran as he strives to overturn a ban on the public using its facilities.

KINIBIZ After a hiatus of a year or so market mover Mohd Nazifuddin Najib is back and seems set to ramp up stocks.

Abdul Halim Abdul Hamid had on the night of June 24 participated in a candlelight vigil in Jinjang to support his activist son Adam Adli.