Archive - 21 December 2013

ANALYSIS Liow Tiong Lai will have slightly more backers in the new MCA central committee, but the rival faction seems keen to help out for now.

How could the few trample on the many?

The bosom buddies are now the top two leaders of MCA, while former president Chua Soi Lek's son is one of four VPs.

'I hope and pray that the new leaders can win back support from the Chinese community and work to serve them.'

A total of 496 foreigners illegally employed as security guards were detained in an integrated enforcement operation last month.

The government is studying new highway toll rates to ensure they do not give unreasonable profits to concession companies and burden the people.

Residents of decades-old Kg Tai Lee want more than the court ordered RM10,000 as compensation to quit the land.

The group Geramm will take their anger to cyberspace, wear red on Fridays and start a petition to free the news weekly The Heat.

This is part of the party’s efforts to get back to its basic struggles, says the legal and human rights bureau chief.

2,352 or 98.66 percent of the 2,385 delegates eligible to vote had registered, making it the highest ever turnout in the party's history.

The family had written for permission three weeks ago for Uthaya, the eldest son, to see his ailing mother, only to be denied.

The PM laments how the public allegedly swallowed opposition claims that Bangladeshis had been roped in to vote in GE13.

UPDATED 3.14PM MIC deputy chief S Subramaniam and his MCA counterpart both say a simple-majority system for BN decisions is out of the question.

Chinese educationists Dong Zong insists it has not 'misunderstood' the blueprint and points to how it marginalises vernacular schools.

Lawyers for Liberty gives a 101 lesson on how the public prosecutor should represent the state and the people, and not Umno.

Umno's Perlis youth chief flays MCA Youth for the latter's bravado in demanding an end to 'extreme' statements.

Umno sec-gen Tengku Adnan Mansor denies comparing women with housing property, claiming that he a victim of media spin.

The PM jokes about MCA's flaccid morale - that it has members, 'but it's like, the flesh is there but the spirit is weak.'

'While the 2013 general election was the mother of all general elections, the lies regarding the Bangladeshis are the grandmother of all lies.'

UPDATED 2.49PM Soi Lek directs the plea to PM Najib who was present for the 60th MCA assembly's opening today.

FREE YOURSAY 'He now acts as the public prosecutor who is also the government's legal adviser and protector of the public interest.’

FREE YOURSAY 'There is an old saying, some old-time political wisdom: 'Caesar's wife must be above suspicion'.'

FREE YOURSAY ‘Why am I not surprised? The authorities will do anything to cover their tracks and make them look good.’

FREE YOURSAY 'Umno-BN has already lost control of the non-Malays and cannot allow further deterioration of control on the Malays, otherwise it will be finished.’

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