Archive - 15 July 2013

Ex-CJ Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah points to Article 140 of the Federal Constitution to justify the IPCMC.

Pulau Gaya, an island famous for undocumented immigrants and lawlessness, finally gets a police station.

The BN Youth chief says sex bloggers Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee must be made an example of to dissuade others from doing the same.

Lawyer Karpal Singh has withdrawn his appeal against a High Court’s dismissal of his application to subpoena three witnesses, including former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, to testify in his sedition trial.

PARLIAMENT It’s because there are open tenders, laments Bung Moktar Radin (BN-Kinabatangan), that he isn't getting the contracts he demanded.

The police will launch ‘Ops Ramadan’ and ‘Ops Selamat’ ahead of Aidilfitri in efforts to reduce crimes and fatal accidents, said inspector-general of police Khalid Abu Bakar.

The government has yet to discuss bonus for civil servants in view of the Hari Raya Aidilfitri this year, said chief secretary to the government Dr Ali Hamsa.

PARLIAMENT Deputy Finance Minister Ahmad Maslan defends the government's purchase of Chromebooks from YTL Corp for school students.

The Association of Wives of Ministers and Deputy Ministers (Bakti) contributes 49,300 boxes of Hari Raya goodies, worth nearly RM500,000.

Minister Shahidan Kassim says the Election Commission has yet to make any decision on adding federal or state seats.

Satees Muniandy, who is now an MPSP councillor, expresses relief when the order was read out at the magistrate’s court in George Town today.

KINIBIZ Sometimes it really is alarming how easily the market is affected by a few words here and there by the right people.

KUALA BESUT PAS' Dzulkefly Ahmad claims the four adjacent plots of land are located in Tembila, facing the South China Sea.

PARLIAMENT A deputy minister urges Pakatan to give in on this, rather than harp on replacing the commission with the IPCMC.

PARLIAMENT An opposition MP takes a swipe at the former PM when criticising frequent changes to the Education Ministry's name.

So much for the politics of restraint and morality in respect to the holy month, says Kit Siang of Tajuddin Rahman's rant yesterday.

UPDATED 5.20PM BN Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin offers a solution over the purported remarks by the Vatican envoy.

Katheriene Vimala D Aricasnin, 44, says she was unfairly terminated from her job of 22 years although she had applied for leave.

PARLIAMENT Withdrawing from the EPF savings to settle credit card debts would drain the funds meant for use during retirement, says Ahmad Maslan.

Fire destroys 20 shops in Tukang Besi Road in Sibu this morning, making it the third blaze in the town in less than a month.

Manimaran, Saravanan and Perumal are charged with murdering Sindambaram, 68, at house at Jalan Wayang, Buntong in Ipoh in 2009.

DAY 4 KUALA BESUT Quotable quotes, planned events and unplanned incidents as they take place in the run-up to the polls.

UPDATED 3.37PM The tourism minister is optimistic the road in Malacca will revert to pedestrian-only status.

UPDATED 5.32PM PAS, DAP and PKR contend that the statements issued by the EC, namely by the top two, seemed to favour BN.

UPDATED 3.15PM Kelantan, Penang and Selangor ‘cannot be excluded’, if ‘Visit Malaysia 2014' is to succeed, says minister. [VIDEO]

The Bukit Bendera MP says the firm’s monopoly over Internet learning facilities for schools could rake in an estimated RM9 billion.

PKR's Roland Engan lost to BN new face, Anyi Ngau, who is former Limbang district officer and Roland’s uncle, in the three-cornered fight.

If untrue, the CM writes in a letter to the ministry, Minister S Subramaniam must come out to publicly defend the doctors and medical profession.

The two parties and the government should focus on 'why qualified students cannot get places in public universities based on merit'.

UPDATED 5.45PM KUALA BESUT Besut PAS division chief Wan Azhar Wan Ahmad says he held two closed-door briefings at their request.

UPDATED 5PM KUALA BESUT PAS says BN took plots of land meant for poor people in Tok Saboh after returning to power in 2004.

Justice P Ravinthran says the court would sit at the GOF Centre in Kinarut in view of the large number of people to be tried.

The awarding of a colossal railway project through direct negotiations runs foul of Najib's pledge, says the DAP.

UPDATED 1.15PM SABAH RCI Ex-CM Chong says there's no guarantee they would not be able to obtain the re-issued ICs.

UPDATED 4.15PM The Bersih co-chair stresses the importance of cleaning up the electoral roll before a redelineation exercise is done.

UPDATED 2.50PM If both parties are unable to reach an agreement by January, the matter will go for trial, says Ambiga.

Tony Pua says ‘the nation's like a rudderless ship crying out for a leader to put his foot down, yet Malaysians are getting feuding first officers’.

UPDATED 12.33PM R Sivarasa cites the EC members' alleged fraud in the botched indelible ink usage. [VIDEO]

The rakyat demand answers.

KUALA BESUT This has prompted the BN and PAS to focus their by-election campaigns on prospective development of the constituency.

FREE YOURSAY 'It is a real pity that in Malaysia, bright, intelligent and promising students are ‘punished' for obtaining excellent results.'

FREE YOURSAY 'Islamic Civilisation studies has been compulsory in public universities since the 1997/98 intake. It looks like MCA has been sleeping.'

Confining studies to one or two civilisations lays the ground for the rise of ethno-centrism, says Bishop Paul Tan.

FREE YOURSAY 'If what Zahid has said is factual, why are the ex-EO detainees allowed to continue to mastermind more crimes?'

FREE YOURSAY 'I am 72. I was there at Bersih 3.0 with my friends. I shall be there again if there is Bersih 4.0. It will be a good day to die.'