Archive - 13 February 2014

Liow Tiong Lai says sentiment in Kajang polls unrelated to MCA being in the cabinet.

I am sure some of you, especially the Chinese community, endured a ‘#@$%^&*’ moment when you called for the bill after the reunion dinner or a food night out with family or friends on CNY day itself. Yes, most Chinese restaurants charge their customers an additional 20 percent or more of the total bill. This is what we at the National Consumer Complaints Centre (NCCC) call unscrupulous business ethics.

Those who reacted angrily to her video ‘fell into a trap’, says a party leader.

Khairuddin Khalid is also fined RM5.02 million on eight counts of soliciting and accepting bribes.

Mohd Fairus wants gov’t to step into developer’s demand for more money.

Ibrahim Ali tells the EC to amend its rules, alluding to PKR's Anwar Ibrahim.

The NUJ also opposes media manipulation by political parties.

Transparency International-Malaysia (TI-M) urges our Malaysian government, especially the International Trade and Industry Ministry (Miti), not to proceed with the signing of Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) until a consensus has been achieved with all stakeholders, especially since the agreement is likely to affect the live hood of all Malaysians.

This was done ahead of an award ceremony for 'Bakat Muda Sezaman 2013'.

The schools were in Beaufort, Keningau, Tenom, Sandakan and Nabawan.

'Actually, he (Abdul Taib) was quite surprised,' says Abang Johari Openg.

UPDATED 6.45PM So says the lawyer for the NGOs that made the offer.

PKR's Rafizi Ramli will also be filing a fresh report against the outgoing CM.

INTERVIEW After friends and relatives advised Lim Ching Miau to go into hiding.

UPDATED 4.35PM The group cry foul that they are victims of slander.

It says it is illicit funds obtained from sale of a building in San Francisco, California.

The levels at Sungai Selangor and Klang Gate Dams are at below 60 percent capacity.

Respond quickly, for chickens are slaughtered, tensions are rising, says PKR.

He says this because the ex-MB has expertise in rural development.

The boat was said to have wobbled when several flood victims panicked.

'Abdul Rahman should apologise as his tweets are more offensive than...'

It is jaw-dropping to read former Kajang state assemblyperson Lee Chin Cheh’s statement that he quit because Selangor needed the leadership of Anwar Ibrahim.

What about suspension of The Heat, rejection of printing permit for FZ Daily?

The ex-premier says Anwar is deliberately delaying the Sodomy II appeal hearing.

'Hopefully, this effort will get Allah’s blessings,' he says on his Facebook page.

Justice Nik Hasmat Nik Mohamad holds that there was evidence of negligence.

UPDATED 4.25PM He says the country enjoyed a total of RM38.7bil FDI last year.

UPDATED 3.30PM SM Mohamed Idris describes the meeting as a ‘sham’.

PKR's Ampang MP Zuraida Kamaruddin calls them ill-informed, impractical.

The students say they were already taught in class that celebrating V-Day is ‘haram’.

FREE MP SPEAKS 'The court didn't even consider arguments on FOI.'

A PKR leader says the Najib administration is becoming scared of its own shadows.

In his haste to blast the status quo for Malaysia’s ranking in the World Press Index 2014, DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang has forgotten that it is his own son, Lim Guan Eng, and other DAP members including Teresa Kok who have sued the media and activists for reporting issues that put them in a bad light. Shame on you, Lim Kit Siang, for clearly practising double standards.

'Not today, maybe some other time,' he tells reporters who sought his reaction.

PM's Office says so. Yet M'sia slips to record low in World Press Freedom Index.

Nearly 80 percent of more than 18,000 adults polled said they were happy.

ANALYSIS Will confrontation arise, since KL did not have a say on successor?

Sarawak has been spared the problems of Sabah because of the outgoing CM.

COMMENT Perhaps he believes that good things come to those who wait.

INTERVIEW Meaning, the ex-MCA chief adds, he won't stop taking jabs at his successors.

FREE YOURSAY ‘At least there is one area where M'sia is slightly better than S'pore.’

FREE YOURSAY ‘If UiTM can exist, what's wrong in having vernacular schools?’

The task force will monitor the quality of all rivers, says Chow Kon Yeow.

FREE YOURSAY ‘I disagree with Kok's video, but I disagree even more with...’

COMMENT Does male-dominant political sphere fear outspoken women?

COMMENT Will ‘new’ MB continue bid to reclaim control over Selangor’s water?

INTERVIEW Kok says she will not be cowed by the slap ‘bounty’.