Archive - 15 January 2014

Idris Haron says the state receive a letter by the ICJ on this last year.

Police will wait for the AG's Chambers’ decision to charge participants or not.

Umno sec-gen says party rejects acts of violence as means to solving problems.

Ahmad Maslan says it should also decide on stern action against errant traders.

The kangkung joke has spilled over from cyberspace to the streets of Bukit Mertajam.

Supt Mancha Anak Laga says each team was positioned quite far from each other.

It wants an RCI set up as the last resort to find the truth in the RM12.5 billion fiasco.

Khalid Ibrahim says the state will eventually have managing powers.

He says he was more inclined to writing ‘pantun’ (quatrains) than poems.

KINIBIZ CIMB Group’s private placement is better than most. Why the price fall then?

Influential daily WSJ warns that the 'Allah' row may not help Umno in the long run.

The cartoonist will deliver a keynote speech at the University of Louisville.

UPDATED 5.50PM The state gov't has given the company a year to upgrade.

He should be brave enough to offer solutions for the Allah issue.

It would be unwise to restore the Internal Security Act (ISA).
Of the many features of the ISA, it was detention without trial which had evoked widespread condemnation, because it allowed incarceration without independent judicial evaluation of evidence, it was regarded as an affront to the rule of law and a violation of the principle of justice. Many Malaysians therefore welcomed the announcement by Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, on Sept 15, 2011 to abolish the ISA.

'Clear the air' as barring the word has far-reaching implications for Sikhs.

UPDATED 6PM Think tank Ideas outlines four measures that the gov't can adopt.

The sex video had featured a man that was said to resemble Mustafa.

Commissioner James Nayagam says the complex is poorly maintained.

Ernest Zacharevic, famed for contentious murals, to launch first solo show.

UPDATED 5.50PM 'Since Azmin accepted the decision, the exco did so as well.'

Market-goers want to know if the price of the vegetable has really gone down.

FREE A panel discussion on Thursday focuses on this key challenge.

'Oblivious to the extent that even the PM's younger brother needed to step in.'

Parents adamant on sending children to original site rather than to new premises.

UPDATED 4.55PM The prosecutor says only a judge can determine that.

'The period for objection is until March 31,' says Ahmad Phesal Talib.

They blame state authorities for a Health Ministry ruling on food handling.

'Justice has finally been done for our client, an innocent woman,' says an attorney.

It says it is committed to the fight and takes a recent survey findings seriously.

CFM says the escalating tension is due to the absence of any clear direction.

A special committee will be formed to manage the murals and other artworks.

The Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini famously once said of the Iranian Revolution; it is not about the price of watermelon, a popular fruit in Iran. This indicated that the Ayatollah’s politics were aiming at loftier goal, and economic hardship was even to be tolerated to achieve it.

Has operational control been given to Syed Mokhtar's Seaport Terminal?

Noor Jan, 57, was detained yesterday at the Anjung Batu Jetty in Umbai.

UPDATED 2.40PM The Federal Court will now hear the application on March 5.

This is over Anwar Ibrahim's interview with the BBC two years ago.

However, the Tuaran police chief says no one was reported injured.

The prime minister's vegetable faux pas has made it to international news.

There would be no Malaysia without Sabah and Sarawak, he reminds Putrajaya.

COMMENT It took Rafizi Ramli to admit that the ambiguity is unsustainable.

UPDATED 6.10PM The Sodomy II investigator is found unfit for admission to the Bar.

COMMENT The prime minister fails to conceal growing divisions in Umno.

TI-M says the law already allows for this, it only requires a bit of creativity and courage.

UPDATED 2PM The Australian politician was barred from entering Malaysia.

It will be on the scale of Bersih protests, warns Pandan MP Rafizi Ramli.

G Palanivel says no minister or deputy minister had been punched before.

FREE YOURSAY ‘Islam has deteriorated into a religion that is scared of its own...’

FREE YOURSAY ‘That’s the only way to stop them from using ‘Allah’.’ 

FREE YOURSAY ‘At the end of the day no one owes us anything. We must be ourselves.’

FREE YOURSAY ‘It is the most useful weapon Umno has in its arsenal.’

FREE COMMENT The jewels of the campaign are in the individual stories.