Archive - 23 July 2013

Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi says reasons include the careless attitude of parents, financial issues, and living in rural areas and remote interiors.

The freeze is from six months to three years for not campaigning for colleagues contesting in the 13th general election.

‘I think my blessing is not important, as the candidates who wish to contest have their own strength and charisma,’ says the MCA president.

The four Muslim women who reportedly insist on participating in the Miss Malaysia World Competition have been accused of demeaning their religion.

KUALA BESUT ...has got the money. This is what research house Ilham Centre found from its interviews with 578 registered voters.

ANALYSIS Speculation is rife that the MIC president will drop the deputy minister as the party's Wilayah chief.

The state executive councillor urges the Health Ministry and Malaysian Medical Council to speed up the probe into the complaints.

Amizudin Ahmat has lost his appeal to set aside a court decision to sentence him to 3 months’ jail for contempt of court.

Report that non-Muslim primary school students are forced to eat in a shower room riles up a MIC leader and several others.

KUALA BESUT Giving projects to cronies is political survival, says Ahmad, for PAS will finish Umno off if it gets the money.

Assemblyperson Teh Yee Cheu is riled by Penang exco members not wanting such a committee set up despite approval by the state assembly.

The High Court in Kuala Lumpur today dismissed an application by five veteran artistes to enter a judgment in default against Persatuan Seniman Malaysia (Seniman) and seven others in a suit over the association’s 15th annual general meeting which they claimed was null and void.

UPDATED 5.45PM KUALA BESUT Claim of the money to be distributed to voters is a slander by PAS, says Idris Jusoh.

The study conducted in 2011 on 4,500 respondents found that 94 percent agreed that potential trainees should take the test.

DAY 12 KUALA BESUT Quotable quotes, planned events and unplanned incidents as they take place in the run-up to the Wednesday by-election.

UPDATED 6.45PM The school's principal says that the canteen was not large enough to accommodate the students. [VIDEO]

Sara Amelia Bernard says being banned from Miss World Malaysia was a form of discrimination and that religion is a personal choice.

A 19-year-old student's dream of becoming a lawyer hits a brick wall after discovering that the course offered to him is not recognised in Malaysia.

DPP Nik Suhaimi tells the court that Nayati was now in South Africa and could only be present in the court on that date.

'What are the reasons for not gazetting amendments passed 13 years ago into law? We want to know,' says Sarawak PKR chief Baru Bian.

Its director-general, Che Gayah Ismail, says the weather was expected to be cloudy in the morning and fine in the afternoon.

The National Environment Agency (NEA) warns that satellite data showed 'a marked increase in the number of hotspots in Sumatra'.

It was reported that Kedah was likely to get a public holiday for Thaipusam in keeping with an election promise of the BN.

Only three areas - Muar, Bukit Rambai and Port Klang - registered unhealthy air quality this morning compared to five yesterday. 

UPDATED 5.05PM The judge rules that PKR’s Ibrahim Yaakob's petition was defective. With this, BN’s Ahmad Fauzi Zahari remains the MP.

Compulsory study of Islamic and Asian Civilisation Studies in private colleges will inculcate patriotism and spur development, says Education Ministry.

ANALYSIS KUALA BESUT BN’s meet-and-greet programmes and promises of million-ringgit projects stand to serve them well in tomorrow's polls.

UPDATED 3.20PM The Education Ministry orders SK Seri Pristana in Sungai Buloh to remove the tables from the shower room.

UPDATED 7.05PM The four complain of being verbally abused and denied treatment by doctors in mainland Penang.

‘We do not want to see the movement being overshadowed,’ says Batu Pahat Umno Wanita chief Hasliza.

A weak earthquake with a magnitude of 3.6 on the Richter Scale occurred near Kudat, in the northern part of Sabah at 9.14am today.

UPDATED 1.40PM The PKR director of strategy says all three cap contracts were given to three separate firms that are linked back to the same person.

UKM professor Teo Kok Seong says Chinese leaders should support the effort as such knowledge would benefit the Chinese community.

UPDATED 2PM SABAH RCI The Sabah CM instructs his lawyer to deny he had any role in the project giving ICs to illegal immigrants.

UPDATED 4.25PM Tony Pua urges Najib to determine if the cause of losses was 'a bad business decision' or abuse of power.

UPDATED 1.55PM SABAH RCI Ong Kian Ming reveals that the number of people with such ICs is sufficient to swing elections.

The observers from Forum-Asia will report to the UN on matters relating to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly during the recent GE13.

At the centre of a ‘manufactured’ controversy.

COMMENT ‘There must be no secret negotiations or secret agreements. Transparency and accountability are imperative.’

SUPP president Peter Chin is not receptive of the idea, saying that his party is multiracial whereas MCA is Chinese-based.

Kuala Lumpur High Court judge Rosilah Yop grants PAS’ application to set aside the order granted to the Kemaman Municipal Council last May.

FREE YOURSAY 'We know its title but not too much of its contents/syllabus. So maybe we are too fast to accept and to reject Titas.'

COMMENT 'It was here that I learned the importance of press freedom, human rights, fundamental liberties as well as other strange and alien terms.'

COMMENT For Malaysians to understand multiculturalism, it makes common sense for them to learn the cultures of one another.

FREE YOURSAY 'Ex-IGP Abdul Rahim has just admitted the police can't probe and gather enough evidence to deter crimes.'

FREE YOURSAY 'The problem with many BN politicians today is that they feel they can say anything, right or wrong, and get away with it.'