Archive - 20 May 2014

Malaysia Airports says this is being fixed and KLIA2 is safe for use.

Dyana Sofya will be another Tunku Aziz, says Mohd Puad Zarkashi.

Of late much has been made of the racial origin of the DAP candidate for the May 31 Teluk Intan by-election. There is a whispering campaign that the DAP had sidelined Indian Malaysians by choosing a Malay candidate. Other critics point to the relatively youth of the candidate and perhaps the most strident voice from the BN is that Dyana is a compromise candidate to heal factional in-fighting.

TELUK INTAN Dyana Sofya's mom says she tried raising her like Mukhriz.

BUKIT GELUGOR Some 100 police and 48 military personnel will have early voting tomorrow.

It calls for greater accountability in political financing and a spending cap.

KINIBIZ It kills all hope that Proton will become an economically viable entity.

The security forces had found amulets at a skirmish area in Kampung Tanjung Batu last year.

Sister Julianna Lim was attacked outside a church on Wednesday morning.

UPDATED 5PM BUKIT GELUGOR Rival questions pics of muscular men on FB.

UPDATED 5.55PM TELUK INTAN Most voters here not on net, says Kit Siang.

River patrols and river blocks would also be intensified during the Gawai period.

‘We do not see photos of Ramkarpal in his swimming trunks,’ he says.

His lawyer says the PM will decide before he leaves the country tomorrow.

Dear Prime Minister

For the third time in the past 11 months, with effect from April 16, 2014, I was punished without even a hearing yet again for ‘Ingkar Perintah’ (failing to follow Wardens Orders). I was jailed in the ‘dark room’-designed punishment cell for 16 days in blatant contravention of Regulations 119 and read together with Section 121 of the Prisons Act 1995 which in effect allows for only one day of separation.

The minister may have jumped from SUPP to Teras but won't shine there, it holds.

UPDATED 8.22PM BUKIT GELUGOR Abu Backer had been waiting to meet Lim.

'I am staying put as I want to remain as Barisan Nasional MP.'

KINIBIZ This is dubbed ‘DRB-Hicom’s boldest move to transform Proton’.

UPDATED 6.34PM The Perkasa chief was sentenced to a day’s jail and RM20,000 fine.

UPDATED 3.09PM DAP reps respond to his criticism of Dyana lacking experience.

BUKIT GELUGOR Huan Cheng Guan also claims that his campaign was tacitly supported by many DAP members.

DAP MP Ariff Sabri says Umno lacks the moral authority to talk about this issue.

The Penang state assembly saw reps jousting over DAP's Teluk Intan candidate.

UPDATED 3PM TELUK INTAN Gerakan won't use the photo as campaign fodder.

COMMENT Privileged children of the NEP need to help preserve harmony.

'The EPF Act 1991 does not allow us to issue any bonds,' it says.

UPDATED 2.24PM Gombak Syariah Court says prosecution failed to prove case.

MH370 The move was in line with their commitment towards greater transparency.

UPDATED 1.50PM The MB will ask Kidex to have another town hall meeting.

COMMENT Why has DAP chosen Dyana Sofya, a Malay candidate?

She is a DAP candidate and backs the party's stand, says Salahuddin.

DAY 2 TELUK INTAN Quotable quotes and events as they take place.

'He oversteps the boundary of how much tolerance Malaysians can hold...'

Why do we need hudud in this day and age?

UPDATED 1.15PM They were charged over a 2008 anti-price hike rally.

The flight bearing registration number 9M-MUD has a giant panda illustration.

UPDATED 1.35PM Ibrahim tells Gerakan to use the photo as polls fodder.

In 2012, employers have stated that the cost of absenteeism was about RM100,000 per day and the additional costs of replacing absent workers and the total lost due to sick leave stands at RM9 billion or 1 percent of Malaysia’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of RM850 billion. In 2013, it was RM8.22 billion. That is certainly a huge significant cost on the economy.

It may seem funny. But it is certainly silly to the marrow, or shall we say, most frustrating. And it is even shocking. The fielding of Dyana Sofya Mohd Daud, a young woman lawyer, by DAP in Teluk Intan has got Umno really crying in the rain.

DAY 74 MH370 Updates and latest coverage as search for MH370 continues.

FREE YOURSAY ‘It is Umno Baru, Perkasa and Isma Malays who are the real bigots.’    

FREE YOURSAY 'One attracting a certain race, the other only accepting one race...'

FREE YOURSAY ‘Khairy, when you came into politics, you too were a newbie.’

His background sheds little light on how he developed his pro-Malay stance.

This is one of the grounds in the gov't's appeal of Nik Nazmi’s acquittal.

COMMENT He can withstand hyena’s attack. But it's the end if Ridhuan pounces.

UPDATED 2PM ‘We declared a state of emergency, it's not a coup,’ says a general.

It features a smiling Ibrahim standing in between Dyana and her mother.