Archive - 10 October 2013

'Is the police only allowed to defend themselves after they are shot? If that is the case, surely a lot of police will die if we do so,' says Zahid Hamidi.

Malaysia's Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) will be begin operations in 2018 and will be the main asset of the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) in safeguarding the country's waters and sovereignty, said Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein.   

Surprise, surprise, the senate stamps its approval on the controversial Bill and ends its session.

If you are dissatisfied lodge a police report, Abu Zahar Ujang tells critics at the sitting today.

First it was sex, then casinos. Now, a Singapore diplomat has been charged with inflating the number of pineapple tarts and bottles of wine carried on official visits in the latest corruption case to hit the squeaky clean city-state.

Taking her to task for asking MCA and MIC to quit BN, Jaspal Singh wonders why she doesn't ask Pakatan the same.

UPDATED  8.03PM Speaking at a forum in Shah Alam, the auditor-general says the audit report is meant to be a moral tale to be followed.

SENATE Minister in the PM’s Dept Abdul Wahid Omar tells the Dewan Negara that the implementation date for GST is not set yet.

It noted the Auditor-General's Report found several problems with this waste disposal method, which CAP had highlighted years ago.

UPDATED 7.50PM Abu Kassim also says MACC shouldn't be relied on to automatically take action on findings in the audit report.

UPDATED 5.55PM Even in the Old West, says Jaspal Singh, wanted posters for outlaws gave their would-be captors the option of bringing them in 'dead or alive'.

UPDATED 8PM Nur Jazlan says the value of the police's missing items was RM1.3mil, and was not as big as the NFC issue.

UPDATED 11.35PM Two were killed and five others injured after a MASwings Twin Otter aircraft landed short of the runway in Kudat today.

The Klang Valley Mass Rapid Transit (KVMRT) Line 1 linking Sungai Buloh to Kajang is progressing well with no cost overruns.

New contractors have been appointed to complete the upgrading of the Kota Kinabalu International Airport (KKIA), according to Deputy Transport Minister Ab Aziz Kaprawi.

Pakatan MPs question why the 118-storey Warisan tower project persists even though it's located within a protected buffer zone.

Its central committee member Loh Seng Kok says it is the Kedah menteri besar who had slanted the Barisan’s working ethos.

UPDATED 5.10PM The MyWatch chief blasts police for investigating his tweet alleging police were involved in his July attack, but not the shooting itself.

UPDATED 6PM On Zahid's controversial remark, the PAS president says the 'police can shoot but it depends on the situation.'

Pope Francis's prayers for Muslim-Christian peace conveyed through Anwar are heartfelt, says Catholic Bishop Paul Tan.

Fomca was shocked to discover 75 expired goods or food items without expiry dates when they visited five hypermarkets recently.

Penang CPO Abdul Rahim Hanafi says a woman assistant supt of police had been detained for allegedly helping the man to escape.

Mohd Shariman Alwi, 30, claims trial after the charge was read out to him before Judge Nixon Kennedy Kumbang at the Kuching Sessions Court.

COMMENT PCA's detention without trial is just a continuation of Mahathirism played up for the sake of the Umno electoral campaign.

UPDATED 4.05PM MB Abdul Khalid says this amounts to an additional RM8,620 monthly, to begin after a motion is tabled at the assembly.

UPDATED 7.45PM A group of former rebels said it seized Ali Zeidan from a hotel because of his government's role in the US capture of a top al-Qaeda suspect.

In the battle to lead Umno Youth, challenger Akhramsyah says many are dissatisfied with Khairy Jamaluddin.

UPDATED 3.25PM While he heard the home minister's speech in full, he does not recall Zahid saying cops shoot first.

Lim Kit Siang wants Najib and Khalid to state their stand on the home minister's remark allegedly urging extrajudicial killings.

The communications and multimedia minister is reported to have said he is willing to meet with the PAC and have the session televised live.

UPDATED 5.45PM 'I would rather give the risk to the criminal than ask the police to risk being shot,' says the former PM.

More than three million pilgrims undertook the pilgrimage last year, which is compulsory at least once in the lifetime for all able Muslims.

UPDATED 1.15PM Khairy, who took over from Shabery Cheek, says it is up to the latter to explain as he was then in charge.

UPDATED 1PM The minister refuses to weigh in on his colleague’s endorsement for police to shoot suspects before guilt is proven.

UPDATED 3.25PM He says that the gov't must correct the mistakes highlighted in the Auditor-General’s Report.

DAP's top father-son duo Lim Kit Siang and Lim Guan Eng have also praised BN leaders, says Malacca party chief Goh Leong San.

Mukhriz Mahathir slams the BN parties for criticising him, and asks if they are attempting to outrun DAP in the racist race.

UPDATED 12.46PM Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching wonders if the NRD's current amnesia over its 2009 records of 374,500 red IC holders is deliberate.

UPDATED 2.50PM Instead, the former prime minister stresses that the controversial agenda is to distribute wealth evenly among society.

ANALYSIS Khairy shouldn't have a problem as he is facing seemingly weaker rivals, all of whom are Youth branch heads.

FREE VOXPOP 'To arrest these structure collapses, let us go back to strengthening our moral fiber. Learn from the past or live in regret.'

The ministry says it had asked the anti-TPPA coalition to specify its area of interests so that structured engagements can be held.

Court of Appeal finds Sarawak gov't was unlawful in alienating 3,475 hectares of native customary rights land of the Iban to two companies.

COMMENT That the minister is easily unhinged is not as worrisome as the prospect he will not suffer the forfeit at the Umno polls.

FREE YOURSAY 'With a salary of a minister, how many years does Nedim's father need to work to afford a RM7mil bungalow?'

 Lawyers for Liberty says the 'shoot first' home minister has effectively ordered police to ignore the criminal justice system.

It is good if backbenchers regularly question the ruling party's policies, says academician Mohammad Agus Yusoff from UKM.

Calling himself ‘an endangered species', he says racial conflicts must not be swept under the carpet but met head-on.

FREE YOURSAY 'If the cops are on shoot-first orders, criminals would more likely to shoot first as well. No one's safety is guaranteed.'

FREE YOURSAY 'Zahid's rhetorical question can be easily answered by a college student. The police force does not have a right to extrajudicial killing.'

FREE YOURSAY 'Human rights apply to everyone and not just criminals as Zahid claims. A criminal has to be proven guilty by a court.'