Archive - 4 November 2013

COMMENT He can now boast about slashing PAS' majority, but the results showed his father is losing his Midas touch in Kedah.

The suspect, who is in his 20's was picked up in Ulu Sedaka about 3.30pm. He has since been released on police bail.

PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu said the party had to fight the BN-led state and federal gov'ts, who brought 'everyone and everything'.

The Kedah MB claims that outsiders have used traditional Islamic schools to register as voters in Sungai Limau.

MCMC says parents should also play their role by training their children to exercise self-regulation when accessing the Internet.

Mount Sinabung spews a 7km column of ash into the air yesterday, prompting authorities to impose a 3km evacuation radius.

SG LIMAU Azalinawati Azazan, 29 arrived at the polling centre at about 3.15pm to cast her vote after her marriage solemnisation ceremony.

The Muslim Lawyer's Association wants the Bar not to back the The Herald's fight to use the word ‘Allah', or it 'would not hesitate to take further action'.

FREE SG LIMAU PAS - 12,069, BN - 10,985, majority - 1,084. The seat was won in May with a 2,774 majority.

Gerakan also wants the Home Ministry to keep a close eye on security firms, in the wake of armed robberies involving guards.

This comes a day after hackers defaced websites belonging to Australian businesses and Philippine gov't agencies.

The firm, tasked with developing a metropolis in Johor state that neighbours Singapore, had previously deferred the listing to early 2014.

UPDATED 7.43PM Another PKR rep Jailani Hamdan is also reported to be on the brink of doing so, citing internal differences.

Seputeh Wanita Umno chief lodges a police report over the punching of a Batu member Norsidah allegedly by a PAS member.

UPDATED 4PM The former Negri Sembilan MB says even Tabung Haji and EPF had bought properties in London.

DAP's Tony Pua says the PM has admitted on CNN he is perfectly willing to ditch moderation to keep the extremists in M'sia happy.

COMMENT On the high voltage topic of monarchy, four speakers hold forth vitally yet succinctly, illuminating the subject as rarely done before.

FREE VOXPOP ‘More M’sians should follow That Effing Show and use humour, ridicule, and humiliation to battle the half-wits in power.’

A student group also wants the vice-chancellor to be chosen by a council of academics and student representatives.

SG LIMAU Faekah Sheikh Hamzah says the fake SMS using her name quotes her urging voters to vote for BN.

FREE YOURSAY 'That's the problem with Umno and MCA. They think money can settle everything. How sad that they never learn...'

Two pressure groups accuse her of ‘slandering’ Najib Abdul Razak after he denied that ‘40,000 Bangladeshis’ had voted in the polls.

Nasruddin says he decided not to contest for the veep’s post as he believed that others vying for the post had higher credibility.

UPDATED 5.25PM Although glazed walls were constructed, the complex was flooded after the rain last week.

UPDATED 3.40PM Torstein Dale Sjotveit is alleged to have ‘unduly favoured’ a company linked to the Sarawak CM. He denies this.

A UIA professor says such an act is a ‘fraud, crime and greatly blasphemous’ and warns that rejecting the Quran will end in disbelief.

COMMENT The by-election speaks to ongoing political engagement within the Malay community and within the two parties themselves.

Minister in the PM's Dept Idris Jala counters the claims of critics of the Goods and Services Tax which will be implemented in 2015.

COMMENT Senator Syed Husin Ali, in his latest book, debunks the concept that the ruler is above the law and can do no wrong.

Resigned to suffering in silence.

They are under remand for six days at the central police station in Miri, Sarawak, after being arrested by armed police on Nov 1.

SG LIMAU BN's Sohaimi Lazim and PAS's Azam Samat, who are in a straight fight, have cast their votes this morning.

FREE YOURSAY 'With a leader like this, Gerakan is doomed. I'm not talking about watching the movie, but rather his cavalier...'

FREE SG LIMAU Polling stations are now closed and EC officials begin the vote-counting process. [PHOTO]