Archive - 9 April 2015

Murder motive, Jho Low, family fortune and new jet not raised during interview.

The prime minister adds that it is healthy to have a difference in opinion.

MB promises forum on Khalid's sacking if Khalid attends assembly sittings.

He reiterates that he took a religious oath that he didn't know the murdered woman.

The Customs Dept says this after retailers choose to stop selling prepaid cards

PARLIAMENT The Baling MP says this about non-Muslim MPs visiting mosques.

The Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih 2.0) condemns the shameful passing by Parliament of the Prevention of Terrorism Act (Pota).

Former MACC panel member Robert Phang testifies this in Rosli Dahlan’s RM50 mil suit.

UPDATED 5.59PM The interview on 'politics and economy' will be aired late tonight.

It is just about five years to 2020.

A developed Malaysia by 2020 is only a dream. It is a mere vision in the minds of Malaysians. It was a mission which needs to be fine-tuned. Can Malaysia achieve the status of a developed nation by 2020?

UPDATED 5.41PM High commissioner says changes 'make a bad law worse’.

COMMENT Their backers were upset with absenteeism during Pota vote.

PARLIAMENT He defends former PM, says his democratic right to criticise Najib.

PARLIAMENT ICAO’s report said the cargo had nothing to do with the matter.

UPDATED 5.01PM He asks PM’s backers if they agree with 1MDB's RM42bil debt.

UPDATED 5.44PM It is improper to use the Sedition Act on him, says Musa.

We - Civil Society Organisations of Sabah and Sarawak - hereby urge a thorough renegotiation of the federal constitution if Kelantan insists to enforce its Syariah Criminal Code II (1993) 2015.

DAP rep says this is because many places not accessible to the disabled.

Let the current leadership do what they believe is best for the nation, DPM says.

This is the first major energy industry merger in more than a decade.

The bill is to amend the Syariah Court Act, to pave the way for hudud in Kelantan.

UPDATED 5.34PM 'Malay-majority seats reduced by Dr M after 1999 polls.'

UPDATED 4.50PM Last minute changes made after protests by BN and Pakatan MPs.

The much-despised and repressive consumption tax the goods and services tax (GST) is finally here to drain our pockets further.

The decision differs from DAP Youth, which will not campaign with PAS Youth.

Selangor MCA's attempt to mock DAP on hudud took a comedic turn.

UPDATED 2.45PM Azmin claims 60 division chiefs met AG to push for Sedition Act changes.

PAC has urged the gov't to have a complete audit on the findings.

But the photo of himself holding the sultan’s hand courts comedic responses.

Many people's idea that the court would be completely powerless is a misconception.

UPDATED 7.12PM Mat Sabu, Hannah reply to outcry on MPs' absence at Pota vote.

UPDATED 1.21PM Speaker throws out motion to defer debate.

Jamil Khir Baharom says this has to happen before it can be implemented.

COMMENT Ideological supremacy cannot be the basis for a democratic gov’t.

COMMENT Need to re-look into the total health services for the next 20 years.

Masagos Zulkifli will be promoted to full minister as minister in the PM’s Office.

COMMENT Will they be professional in enforcing latest security amendments?

UPDATED 1.55PM If cops' budget too tight, Mahfuz says he will help.

COMMENT Despite good people in place, the environs is responsibility of all.

COMMENT All we can do is plant the seed and hope the tree will grow someday.

FREE YOURSAY ‘Ex-dictator wants to push the fake transformer off...’

Despite arrest in a 2004 betting raid, minister says alleged kingpin has no record.

FREE YOURSAY ‘PM Najib has played dumb on many other crucial occasions.’

Patahiyah says she was unprepared when ambushed over Tg Bungah project.

Pastors say hudud is a fundamental breach of the 1963 Malaysia Agreement.

FREE YOURSAY ‘With this law passed, Umno is going to rule forever.’

Gobind says conflict of interest for cops to probe their own conduct.

COMMENT Anybody else, for example Zunar, you’d be looking at jail time.

GST has trapped them in bind with abuse from buyers and six percent extra cost.

FREE YOURSAY ‘Being absent and not voting against Pota is gross dereliction of duty.’

The price for a plate of char kwai teow or rather a popular wok fried noodles with clams/mussels, an egg plus pieces of sliced fish paste, a few prawns and bean sprouts (ngar chow) or kow chow, sold in coffeeshops has gone up again with the introduction of the goods and services tax (GST) since the last time when the government hiked petrol prices.

UPDATED 2.00AM PARLIAMENT PSM rep tells deputy speaker this insults the House.