Archive - 8 April 2015

UPDATED 12:50AM Wan Junaidi says this when asked about the Sedition Act amendments.

Deputy minister explains why the CPC Bill was pulled back by gov't today.

But it remains uncertain when the meeting at Yayasan Perdana took place

Ancap standards have been raised since some Proton cars were given 5-stars.

UPDATED 8.01PM He puts up his hand when Mahathir's name pops up in a question.

PAS Youth rejects persistent government inconsistencies in the implementation of the goods and services tax (GST).

Penang Institute research shows that their management experience is lacking.

Fixing of minimum sentence is an interference with judicial discretion.

UPDATED 6.33PM Fatehah Mustapa underperformed due to a 'ghost'.

Wanita MIC wants those allowed to impose this charge to be publicised.

This was discovered after the exercise was conducted by the consumer body.

She cites this when quizzed on the change affecting electronic media.

UPDATED 5.20PM The minister and Umno Youth chief wants PM to end his silence.

UPDATED 5.01PM Dep minister cites higher revenue when profit slashed by half.

Reading my timeline at 11.40pm was a mistake. I could not sleep after reading YB Rafizi Ramli’s justifications on Pakatan Rakyat’s missing in action (MIA) parliamentarians during the early morning voting on the Prevention of Terrorism Bill 2015.

UPDATED 6.07PM He also speaks against later-deferred CPC amendments.

If amendment to CPC is passed, sentences must be served consecutively.

The number of school buses there has declined from 130 to only 20 units.

We always pick people from the gov't to be assistant registrars, says EC chief.

Najib Abdul Razak says the loan was repaid to Maybank and RHB on Feb 13.

Pakatan MPs tried to delay the bill which brings back detention without trial.

UPDATED 5.33PM BMW says it's sponsoring the cars for use in Asean Summit.

Umno minister Rahman Dahlan takes a dig at Dr M in defence of Najib.

UPDATED 3.09PM 'If book on Altantuya book seditious, why not Dr M?'

PARLIAMENT Ahmad Maslan says it would rise to RM1,200 within five years.

UPDATED 4.16PM amendments to Sedition Act could be a 'total waste of time’.

Motorists were advised to expect delays while crews worked to mop up the glue.

The two from Kota Tinggi are found guilty by a Special Corruption Sessions Court.

Legislators from both the BN and opposition agreed to the motion.

Umno grassrooots leaders want a peaceful resolution to the Dr M vs Najib.

UPDATED 2.10PM The EC says this is a possibility and will be decided by Friday.

It wants bill on hudud implementation in Kelantan read at current sitting.

About 600 residents and owners are petitioning for the project to be stopped.

Gov't not regulating the prices of essential goods, says Teo Nie Ching.

Activists scoff at move to make the Sedition Act more potent.
 

UPDATED 1.45PM Twelve-day campaign period set, and polling day is on a Thursday.

He says there is a need for a specific law to check terrorist activities.

And the PCA, says law expert Syahredzan Johan, is the EO reincarnated.

Hashim Adnan says it was still relevant in Asian societies like Malaysia.

COMMENT This infringes on the rights of Muslims to practise their religion.

PARLIAMENT Minister did not specify if these were recent figures.

UPDATED 4.43PM Mistrust due to lack of transformation, says Wan Saiful.

Says a retired senior judge concerned by clamps on freedoms in the country.

FREE YOURSAY ‘Is it a case of do what I tell you to do, but don't do what I do?’

Fight against militancy must not come at cost of decreased human rights, it says.

FREE YOURSAY ‘Dr M is a person who does not mince or hold back his words.’

FREE   YOURSAY  ‘There is nothing complicated about it. Let the father decide...’

QUESTION TIME Indefinite detention, wider police powers. What gives?

FREE  YOURSAY  ‘IGP tried to outsmart himself and has now been badly cornered.’

COMMENT A wounded Najib is on track to outclass Mahathir in repression.

Franchises responding to consumers on social media say they must pay the 10pct.

Yes. Is Malaysia trapped in the fangs of serious troubles? Surely our neighbouring nations and especially the Asean fraternity are watching very closely given the on-goings that keep surfacing in spasmodic tides and keep increasing in intensity over time.

COMMENT The draconian Internal Security Act has all but been resurrected.

While history may look kindly at how former prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad led Malaysia over 22 years from the backwaters of Asia to be a major Tiger economy, all these achievements may now be wiped out by his traitorous betrayal of someone who had been a staunch ally all those years.