Archive - 13 September 2013

Not telling the truth in any language.

State investor 1Malaysia Development Bhd (1MDB) has boosted the target size of its IPO for its energy assets to around US$3 billion, a person with direct knowledge of the plan told Reuters , as the fund looks to repay debt incurred in a shopping spree for power plants.

UPDATED 7.35PM The development plan was not based on political reasons or racial lines, says Ahmad Phesal Talib.

UPDATED 6.35PM Mohd Safuan Mamat @ Nordin is given 12 months’ jail by the KL Sessions Court in KL for damaging a police car with a traffic cone.

The DAP leader moves to throw out a former branch leader's bid through the court to stop the party from holding its fresh CEC elections.

Let the plans benefit all the poor.

ANALYSIS Potential legal problems will likely give MCA president Chua Soi Lek the opportunity to persuade Liow Tiong Lai's faction to call off the EGM.

The party’s Youth wing deputy info chief Rozan Azen Mat Rasip says the move is a breach of the peace and a threat to Anwar’s safety.

The Delhi court delivers the death sentence upon four men convicted of gang raping a 23-year-old trainee physiotherapist on a bus.

Sarawak Yang di-Pertua Negeri Abang Muhammad Salahuddin Abang Barieng turns 92 this year and despite his age, he does not seem to slow down judging by the number of activities, official or otherwise, that he has attended over the past year.

The party is worried by report that Urban Wellbeing, Housing and Local Government Ministry will hand over responsibility for this to local councils.

UPDATED 6.25PM The prime minister also announces that Jalan Enam at Chan Sow Lin, where Utusan's office is located, is to be renamed Jalan Utusan.

Such discriminatory policy is wrong and DAP is alarmed that the companies defended their move on the notion of a 'free market', says Tony Pua.

Malaysia Airlines (MAS) continues to offer travellers super low airfares for bookings effective immediately until Sept 16, 2013.

The sessions court in Kuala Kangsar finds them guilty of taking part in an illegal assembly and rejects their application for a stay order.

The party is puzzled by this fresh Registrar of Societies demand for the ‘absent delegates letters', after approving fresh CEC elections.

Its secretary-general Mah Siew Keong says the planned takeover showed the gov’t was listening to the public’s demands.

According to the Sin Chew Daily , the man, in his 60s, was upset over his Socso compensation as well as being denied his pension.

The devil is in the details.

UPDATED 5.10PM The MCA disciplinary board says it has the right to investigate Dr Chua Soi Lek if he defied a party decision.

A direct-selling dealer, 33, surrenders to the police this morning over a threat on his Facebook account to kill Khalid Abu Bakar.

UPDATED 2.50PM PAS worries about what the fate of local English teachers if the gov't brings in such teachers from India.

UPDATED 5.40PM Bukit Bendera MP Zairil Khir Johari says there have been landslides at 13 sites around Penang Hill, and luckily there has been no casualty.

He urges the gov’t to make big changes, including correcting existing laws, to rectify weaknesses faced by bumiputra entrepreneurs.

Ex-Johor MB's reminder to include Borneo bumis in Najib's economic plans for Malays is lauded by PKR's Baru Bian.

Enough! Let's bring this matter to a close with a full probe into all allegations against the school and headmaster.

UPDATED 2.10PM Exorbitant car taxes, says MP Rafizi, cause Malaysia’s car prices to be among the world's highest.

KINIBIZ By appealing to the PM to extend the personal loan repayment period for civil servants again, they are really showing their stripes.

UPDATED 1.55PM Serdang MP Ong Kian Ming says the payments are channelled directly from the EMGS to the insurance company, AXA-Affin.

UPDATED 6.10PM The judge calls Wan Muhammad Azri Wan Deris a 'liar' for denying he is the blogger, and fines him RM500,000.

COMMENT The gov't would've been relentless had it believed Muslims' understanding of Allah would've been 'confused' by Christians' Trinity.

UPDATED 1.40PM The DAP hopes that gov't departments will operate more transparently, now that they know they are accountable. [VIDEO]

Ismail will be among the country’s six new envoys who will receive their credentials from the Agong at Istana Negara.

Some residents are fuming over the government’s move to change the traffic system along several roads to one-way to ease congestion.

Sarawakians would be paying for all these loans through higher electricity bills, assessment; housing rates, warning.

Nik Raina Nik Abdul Aziz’s day in Syariah Court to hear the withdrawal of the charge against her has now been postponed indefinitely.

UPDATED 2PM In a letter to the press, the Hindraf leader details his routine and how he has often been mistreated in Kajang Prison.

While he still does not know where he will move to, Pak Mie says he will not abandon the dogs as they are innocent. [VIDEO]

FREE YOURSAY ‘For as long as Malaysia's education system is based on race and not on merits, there is absolutely zero hope...'

FREE YOURSAY 'Common sense will tell you that a third-grade university cannot produce first-grade graduates. You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.'

FREE YOURSAY 'One must be an idiot to believe that a leopard can change its spots. No Waytha, Umno will not change for you...'

Despite wide publicity for the film screening, the movie's poor reception proves the people's rejection of ‘extreme racism’.

FREE YOURSAY 'This man is not senile. He just wants to appear so in order to escape taking responsibility for what he has done.'

The state's priority for protection and preservation of plants and animals is at the expense of Penan livelihood, laments activist Harrison Ngau.