Archive - 30 December 2013

Tenaga Nasional Bhd is to spend RM1 million from its zakat funds nest year to repair 20 houses of the poor throughout the country.

Dr Chua Soi Lek's maiden post on his new blog takes aim at Pakatan Rakyat states for raising the cost of certain services.

UPDATED 9.30PM This new policy is among 11 new measures that the government plans to undertake to reduce public sector expenditure.

Communication minister describes as a needless act and a waste of time the plan for a protest on the night of Dec 31.

Explaining the decline in spirituality.

The Kelantan Syariah Court in Jalan Pasir Mas-Salor in Kota Baru was broken into yesterday.

Two MCA leaders say Kuantan Wanita Umno chief Zaiton Mat is narrow minded and does not respect freedom of expression.

The suspension is temporary, the Home Ministry says, and is in accordance with the Printing Presses and Publications Act.

Its president, Khalid Atan, says almost 5mil private sector workers were now earning just about RM30 above the poverty line of RM870 per month.

'Their leader, Anwar Ibrahim is almost 70-years-old, but yet Pakatan Rakyat still acts immaturely,' says the tourism minister.

UPDATED 5.40PM 'If people topple the government- democracy. Government grinds the people - autocracy,' he tweets.

UPDATED 5.39PM Four NGOs feel Malaysiakini should not be promoting the Dec 31 Turun rally but should dissuade the public from attending instead.

‘Maybe Kuantan Umno Wanita chief Zaiton Mat can afford price hikes, but majority Malaysians still cannot afford it’, says MP Zuraida Kamaruddin.

Najib’s latest post promoting Visit Malaysia Year 2014 soon became a discourse about price hikes among over 900 comments posted there.

A week after the Sentul village was bulldozed, the deputy minister in the PM's Dept says it should have been made a heritage site.

UPDATED 5.25PM KL deputy CPO Amar Singh says he was only talking about the risk of bombings that may be done by others.

UPDATED 5.05PM Norian Mai says in contrast to the Arab Spring, the culture and scenario in Malaysia is different.

Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu says the Public Works Department was clearing the roads of the piled up rubble to make them passable again.

UPDATED 4.40PM Family and friends claim social activist Mohd Zul Raidy Ahmad Tarmizi is being probed under the Penal Code and Security Offences Act.

Residents of heritage village Kg Chitti remind Malacca gov't of pre-election promise on development adjacent to their site.

The CM is initiating legal action against Chant Awareness adviser Jimmy Lim, news portal FMT and its reporter over its Dec 6 report.

UPDATED 4.50PM He says in the GST draft law first tabled in 2009, no measures were put in place to prevent price hikes.

UPDATED 4.25PM For the sake of public interest, PM’s stepson Riza Shahriz should disclose the financiers behind his rise in Hollywood, says PKR.

 

The coalition will take to the streets of the capital to express their grievances against the taxation system.

UPDATED 5.45PM Gerakan Youth chief Tan Keng Liang warns organisers that injuries to the public and media should not recur.

MP SPEAKS It is not morally right to impose hikes on the people when the government continues to waste and leech public funds.

UPDATED 6.30PM He files a police report against four pro-Umno blogsites he says first published an email on bombing threat.

N Surendran says the existing MACC Act already gives it power to crack down on those displaying 'unexplained wealth'.

The M'sian Employers Federation says the rising costs included the minimum wage policy and the increase in retirement age limit.

Diana Danielle asks if there is anyone who likes price hikes and requests them, if they have any extra money, to pass it to her.

UPDATED 1.25PM MACC hails the proposal to probe Rosmah Mansor's family, but says it needs the power to do so.

UPDATED 2PM Sec-gen S Arutchelvan says the job of the police is to maintain peace, not decide on our rights to assemble to protest price hikes.

He tells the opposition and rally organisers to put an 'immediate end' to the rally, which he insists is aimed at toppling the gov't.

COMMENT Fear of the police is pervasive among refugee and other communities of foreign workers, and extortion is very common as well.

FREE VOXPOP 'Little does the regime realise that through such unjust repression, it has unwittingly rendered greater publicity...'

A group calling itself Lightup Borneo is moving into the interiors of Sabah and Sarawak, bringing to the people what they seek most - electricity.

FREE YOURSAY 'It just goes to show Umno has been in power for far too long. As a result they think it is their right to govern the country and nobody should question them.'

Dr Afif Bahardin says joining the ‘Buy a brick campaign’ is the party’s way of showing its support for the portal’s coverage and content.

Meanwhile, intermittent and sometimes moderate rain are expected to occur in several districts in Sarawak until tomorrow.

FOCUS The people have to pay more, the government says, because necessary short-term pains are the key to long-term fiscal health.

FREE YOURSAY 'Amar Singh, did your intelligence also reveal that some of the organisers would be coming in tanks and jet fighters?'

FREE Readers say the price hikes cut the deepest, while the 'Chinese Tsunami' hit hard too. But Rosmah is never far from the spotlight.