Archive - 14 November 2013

The state secretary has been urged to take action against quarters responsible for leaking confidential information about the change in the state's weekend.

TNB workers' unions and associations resist the proposal to split the national utility company into five separate entities.       

They say claims that the party's candidate for Youth chief V Mugilan had failed to convene the Hulu Selangor youth division AGM is rots.

It points out Marina fails to denounce the stand taken by Comango over their involvement in the UN Universal Periodic Review process.

UPDATED 6.50PM Umno candidate Ahmad Sohaimi Lazim also says voters expected goodies in return for support.

Sri Lanka’s president defended his government’s human rights record today, saying he had “nothing to hide”, but on the eve of a Commonwealth summit in Colombo he faced fresh questions over the treatment of ethnic minority Tamils.

The Johor Baru City Council (MBJB) will reduce residential property taxes effective January 2014 to ease the burden of the lower income group.

The Penang Bridge will be temporarily closed for all traffic from 1am to 10am on Sunday (10 hours) in conjunction with the Penang International Bridge Run on Nov 17.

PARLIAMENT Dewan Rakyat votes against a motion to slash the hefty salaries of three special envoys, all once prominent cabinet ministers.

Penang PAS Youth chief Mohd Yusni Mat Piah wants The Star to retract the report and does not rule out legal action.

UPDATED 5.51PM PARLIAMENT Bung Mokhtar leads the tearing up of a motion in response to Pakatan's earlier action.

A pro-Malay education group argues against teaching Science and Maths in English as it will make them fake ‘mat sallehs’.

Ex-DAP veep continues his tirade against the leader, alleging the latter's 'abuse of power' peaked after taking over Penang.

UPDATED 4.25PM This is the fourth time ceiling slabs at the Serdang Hospital have fallen in three years. No one is hurt.

MAA president Aishah Ahmad says that was the only reason for Proton’s absence that she was aware of and it was not related to cost factors.

UPDATED 4.23PM DAP's Klang MP Charles Santiago reveals that a report in a Vietnam business magazine suggests this.

Exco member Abdul Malik Kassim says it was better for the religious officers to be accompanied by the police when on their controversial raids.

Despite calls for a boycott, Najib flies to Colombo for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.

We have the right to take disciplinary action on any employee who contravenes his or her employment contract, says the airline.

A passenger train hit a herd of around 40 elephants that was crossing the line in the Chapramari sanctuary in West Bengal.

The spotlight will be on the contest for president between incumbent sec-gen Abdul Halim Mansor and president, Mohd Khalid Atan.

UPDATED 4.20PM Though the bus operators are called 'Genting', they have nothing to do with Genting Bhd.

According to an NGO, there is an ulterior political motive at work behind the move to make history a compulsory pass subject.

How do we ‘historicise Malaysia’?

The Hindu Sangam says for all requirements to be met, each temple requires five acres of land, which the gov't does not give.

Division chief Abdul Ghapur Salleh says the Wanita division would convene a special meeting and election on Saturday to fill the 14 posts.

Education director-general Abd Ghafar Mahmud says the overall performance is up by 0.04 of the National Grade Point Average.

Kulai MP Teo Nie Ching says Securities Commission must protect minority shareholder rights and not make a mockery of capital market regulations.

KINIBIZ Did he rise from a humble Kedah kampong to one of the richest men in M'sia through 'hard work and dedication'?

UPDATED 2.10PM This is in opposition with others which are ‘cringingly obsequious’ in backing the US, says Wikileaks.

UPDATED 3.55PM Boycotting the bloc voting, some Pakatan reps tore their motion papers, one made a paper airplane.

UPDATED 4.10PM The iconic Penang Hill will see new development projects including a RM270mil cable car system, if the state gov’t has its way.

UPDATED 4.15PM Speaker Pandikar Amin has denied that he is not open to criticism and says channels should be used.

Hundreds of Penan in Murum have been shut-in by armed police for over a week, 27 human rights NGOs say, and they want the PM to step in.

Less than 24 hours after Zacharevic's mural was whitewashed away by the city council, the Lego figures reappear, as stickers.

UPDATED 3.45PM The Sabahan, set to hang for drug trafficking, gets his sentence reduced to life imprisonment and caning.

DAP says the home minister in his parliamentary reply contradicted an Umno executive on use of the police in the party polls.

FREE VOXPOP 'A case of one Malay is reaping off the shares of other Malays, endorsed by the party championing Malays.'

FREE YOURSAY 'I wonder why he deemed the meeting as a plot against the AG, which he was fast to deny. Is there any mention...?'

Why is this so, when swift action was taken in the first statutory declaration made by late private investigator P Bala, he asks.

FREE VOXPOP ‘After all the 'bantuan' giveaways since the last general election, they certainly need to recoup their costs.'

FREE YOURSAY ‘The amount of money spent could easily hire a 'freelance government' to manage Malaysia, and it would probably do a better job.'

Hindraf de facto leader P Uthayakumar's family and lawyers cry foul after being disallowed from meeting him in court.

The airline is to hold a domestic inquiry against flight attendant union president Ismail Nasaruddin for ticking off the MAS chief.

COMMENT The MP is likely to serve a six-month suspension for trying to expose as myth the BN-appointed Pandikar as Parliament's impartial referee.

'Without your support in Sarawak, the BN gov't would have sunk to the bottom of the sea,' says UPM's Jayum Jawan.