Archive - 27 October 2013

Abdul Khalid Ibrahim dismissed as hearsay talk of being replaced as Selangor menteri besar by Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali.

Should it leave BN or stay? Should it join Pakatan, or be a third force? So many questions dog the party, so few answers beckon.

Perak police chief Acryl Sani Abdullah Sani says the directive was made on Friday and a suspension letter was expected to be received next week.

DAP sec-gen Lim Guan Eng says Budget 2014 was also discriminatory in only providing funding for groups that supported BN in GE13.

In the first charge, former syarie chief judge Ismail Yahya, 57, was accused of insulting Maidam in a letter to the state secretary.

DAY 5 SG LIMAU Quotable quotes, planned events and unplanned incidents as they take place in the run-up to the by-election on Nov 4.

SG LIMAU Minister in the PM's Dept Jamil Khir Baharom says his dad was only offering a customary prayer to welcome visitors.

SG LIMAU In the by-election campaigns there, BN spices things up with provocative photos in its flyers, while PAS plays it tame and wordy.

UPDATED 5.15PM He says there are in fact many different suggestions from the delegates, and it is not an easy decision to be made.

UPDATED 7.10PM Ibrahim Ali says this was because cow slaughtering was part of Malay Muslim culture and is under the rulers' purview.

UPDATED 2.35PM Like the law which carried out preventive detention, he says the hike in sugar price is a preventive action against diabetes.

UPDATED 3.30PM ‘If they can't regain Chinese support, then combine with MCA, they were a splinter party,’ says Ibrahim.

The search for a woman believed to have been swept away by strong currents in Bertam Valley continues into its fifth day today.

UPDATED 3.40PM ‘The new office-bearers... they will all be new people, and Mah Siew Keong’s team, not anybody’s team,’ he says.

The unusual event is said to be causing several florists along Jalan Tengku Kelana to run out of stock almost immediately after the flowers arrive.

DAP national vice-chair M Kulasegaran says Perkasa's ire at P Kamalanathan's stand on slaughter of cows in schools, signifies his subjection.

Najib, who is on a working visit to Manchester and London from Oct 27 to Oct 31, is the patron of the WIEF Foundation.

UPDATED 3PM SG LIMAU The ex-MB's death is only a month ago and the DPM is making jokes, laments Mahfuz Omar.

Native landowners in Sarawak are demanding an immediate halt to all planning and construction work at the dam.

UPDATED 2.07PM The Federation of Malaysian Manufacturers says starting at 6 percent is high compared to Singapore's initial 3 percent.

MP SPEAKS The truth is that the items taxed under the sales tax and the service tax are far less than what is taxed under the GST.

COMMENT For all the ISA detainees, we will continue your struggle and fight for a just, righteous, free and democratic nation.

‘Najib and his cabinet ministers were only trying to mislead and pacify Sabahans and Sarawakians,’ says Sarawak PKR chair Baru Bian.

SG LIMAU And instead of defending its community, Kedah MCA prefers to play apologist to Umno, says Gooi Hsiao Leung.

FREE ‘And, in the name of endless possibilities, subsidies for cooking oil will be removed because obesity is a serious issue...'

FREE YOURSAY ‘They said high crime rate was just a perception, but now that they want draconian laws, we have a war against...'

COMMENT The 1987 ISA crackdown was Umno's ploy to create various ‘sensitive' issues to deliberately cause tension in the country.

FREE YOURSAY 'Maybe if we have a new tax on stupidity, this DPM Muhyiddin Yassin would stop acting like an idiot as well'