Archive - 1 December 2013

Penang CM Lim Guan Eng says it is necessary to recognise the significance of the opposition leader in the state assembly.

UPDATED 7.40PM Chow Kon Yeow has topped the Penang DAP committee elections and is likely to be retained as their leader.

The Makkal Sakthi Party wants to see a Tamil secondary school, to which DPM Muhyiddin Yassin could only offer a non-committal response.

Despite the FT Minister's assurances, Teresa Kok urges ratepayers to continue filing their objections or the new rates will be gazetted.

After listening to so many complaints and abuses, Wan Ahmad Wan Omar looks forward to relax a bit and address his mental fatigue.

COMMENT The PKR veep finds Khalid Abu Bakar's warning of the possible arrest of Mariam Mokhtar shocking and ironic.

DAP secretary general Lim Guan Eng condemns BN for its ability to continue to stay in power despite 'scandalous and shameful behaviour'.

FREE YOURSAY 'IGP, I thought of asking you to pick someone your own size but Mariam is so much bigger a person than you are.'

S'gor state assemblypersons and the state's chapter of PAS have contributed RM22,000 for Malaysiakini's 'Buy a brick' campaign.

Developers have reportedly destroyed ancient ruins in Kedah that have been a major tourist draw, but the state claims ignorance.

Religious scholar Mohammad Kazim Elias, named as a supreme council member, says he has never left PAS, despite rumours he had been sacked.

The Jelutong MP, who was criticised for hurling abuses at MPPP staff, expresses his regrets at the Penang DAP confab.

The PM said two years ago, he talked about bigger allowances for MPs but Pakatan objected. 'Now they are just enriching themselves'.

UPDATED 1.01PM The MIC chief says matriculation for Indians must be filled up lest the gov't be blamed for 'Janji tak Ditepati'.

FREE VOXPOP 'It defies logic to cut the subsidies for essentials like food and petrol but zero action on IPPs.'

FREE YOURSAY 'It's not the duty of the gov't to make people more religious. The gov't can't guarantee safe passage to heaven anyway.'

COMMENT Who is comrade Bala - the man who convinced three women to leave their families for three decades.