Archive - 12 September 2013

It wants all the letters from members confirming their absence during the party's elections on Dec 15 last year.

Buang Sayang assemblyperson Abdul Rahim Ismail calls Jeffrey Kitingan's alternative for Malaysia Day 'childish and disrespectful'.

Khalid Abu Bakar says Sabah is next, but is withholding details except that it will be 'large-scale' for security reasons.

Flour and sugar prices will not increase despite a subsidy rationalisation exercise for RON95 petrol and diesel recently, said Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Hasan Malek.

Retired judges can appear in court as counsel, the Federal Court ruled in Putrajaya today.

The duo, who were travelling in a Perodua Myvi, fired shots at the police who flagged them down and were killed when the police returned fire.

Indonesia’s Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs Hatta Rajasa has reaffirmed the government’s commitment to the construction of Sunda Strait Bridge, one of MP3EI (Acceleration and Expansion of Indonesia`s Economic Development) projects.

UPDATED 6.10PM ‘We have given the operator a week’s warning to improve on its cleanliness or else we will take serious action,’ says the PLKN acting DG.

School bus driver Azizee Ishak, 25, and unemployed Mohamad Faiz Amirol Mohamad, 22, were alleged to have committed the gang-robbery.

UPDATED 6.25PM Why a RM12mil hub for Chinese food in a DAP ward when Malay voters who backed the BN are ignored, they ask.

Having being returned as MIC president without a fight, G Palanivel now states he wants the same for his deputy, Dr S Subramaniam.

UPDATED 8PM 'I think more emphasis on English, especially for science and mathematics. That's my stand,' says the former premier.

MTEM's head Mohd Nizam Masha hopes Putrajaya's announcement this Saturday will provide proper policies for bumi businesses and not just handouts.

MyWatch chair Sri Sanjeevan's tweets are not reliable as he does not know what he is doing, says his father P Ramakrishnan.

UPDATED 6PM Anwar could have acted if 'Project IC' was really taking place during my tenure as PM, says the ex-PM.

Come Tuesday next week, Australian Dominic Jude Bird will know whether he can return to his country or be detained further. [VIDEO]

In its 100-day report card, Persatuan Hindraf Malaysia says a clear and transparent system needs to be set up to prevent this from recurring.

UPDATED 6.55PM Letters of demand sent to Puad and Utusan for ‘false and malicious' imputation of Lim's bid to stop screening of Tanda Putera.

The ex-deputy minister hopes that Dong Zong will meet with the Education Ministry and iron out the ‘miscommunication’.

UPDATED 3.35PM Its veep says he believes the announcement will be on policies to further assist underprivileged groups.

Minister Awang Tengah says all timber exports to Japan were investigated, permitted and checked by relevant agencies.

‘You will die next week’ reads the tweet that was sent this morning. But Lim Guan Eng is rather reluctant to go to the police.

Sabah and Sarawak bumis who largely live below the poverty line must be included in new measures PM is to announce.

The Kota Raja Umno deputy division chief reportedly steps aside to make way for Ezam to contest for the post at the party polls.

COMMENT It will showcase Pakatan's better quality leaders and policies compared to BN's, for the public to evaluate.

Instead, the sports minister says enforcement and closer cooperation with MACC and police can curb bribery and match-fixing.

UPDATED 1.45PM PKR MP Sim Tze Tzin apologises 'unconditionally' over his 2011 statements over the Queensbay reclamation project.

UPDATED 3.20PM A developer moves to demolish 40 houses in Kpg Hakka in Mantin, Negeri Sembilan. [VIDEO]

Fishermen in Sungai Burong, Tanjung Karang say that its poor design caused sand to enter the Parit Tiga jetty along with the seawater.

Diplomats say UN chemical weapons investigators's factual reporting alone could suggest which side in the country's civil war was responsible.

UPDATED 2.10PM The first 100 days of P Waythamoorthy taking office have achieved little, apart from setting up the office.

However, Muhyddin Yassin says the universites should not be too engrossed over the rankings, otherwise there will be side effects.

NS trainees at a camp in Balik Pulau claim they are forced to sleep on rusty, broken beds and mouldy, stained pillows and served ‘poor quality food’.

In the film, the home minister asks, the British are shown as being arrogant but were the communists better than the security forces?

Telling parents they can send their kids abroad does nothing to resolve the problem and 'ignores people’s willingness to participate in policy-making'.

The action is inappropriate and the school was yesterday directed to remove the cameras, according to Idris Jusoh.

UPDATED 11.40AM Rising and falling is normal, says Ghauth Jasmon, with reference to UM's current slide in world rankings.

COMMENT He once chided Pak Lah for dozing off but appears to have slumbered even more on the Sabah illegal immigrants issue.

FREE YOURSAY ‘Why pay to be told a historical lie when we can watch free-to-air TV and hear the government tell us historical lies every day?'

FREE YOURSAY 'It is the responsibility of the gov't to ensure that there is no untoward incident whatever the outcome.'

FREE YOURSAY 'It is not rocket science to conclude that racist education policies are not good for the country's education system.'

FREE YOURSAY 'The strategy of Umno is to ensure this continues as intelligence among the population will end up challenging their rule.'