Archive - 18 November 2015

Permatang Pauh PAS has already severed ties with the PAS state rep for backing Pakatan Harapan.

The PM says it's possible the trade agreement will be signed there in early February.

The spokesperson said Jho Low's rep is already in contact with MACC.

He says if TPPA was bad, why several countries want to be part of it?

The family also asks for privacy to mourn their loss.

[INTERACTIVE] This is the story of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, according to the Belgian interior ministry.

I had mistakenly put his name instead of Suboh Md Yassin In a parliamentary question.

PARLIAMENT | Deputy foreign minister says its introduction is an early preventionary measure.

Move is to improve the language's proficiency within society, says CM.

Local press reports that he may still be alive if kidnappers could have agreed on ransom money split.

UPDATED 9.25PM | PARLIAMENT | Deputy foreign minister says the move was done to seek clarification over his statements.

The PAS deputy president says such a stand may be PM's way out from further explaining the RM42m issue.

Penang CM says it's shocking police not going after individuals wanted by the MACC and Bank Negara.

Should aim to have women at the highest posts, not just decorative pieces, says Penang CM.

A doctor says the device itself, without the liquids, can be used to inhale illegal substances.

UPDATED 9.21PM | Possible action against Wong Chen for wrongly linking Goldman Sach's Yusof Yaacob to 1MDB.

A Lung Foundation of Malaysia trustee points to a better way which has a higher success rate.

COMMENT | PAC chief’s ‘cari makan’ remark will set tongues wagging.

Pahang-owned firm first started out as a tech company but is now going into the oil palm business.

Minister Joseph Kurup says the plan basically had been approved by the gov’t.

Paying tithe through an agency ensures more equitable distribution, he says.

Hasan Arifin denies his quip meant ‘earn a living’ as reported earlier. [VIDEO]

UPDATED 5.59PM | The framework will be announced at the coalition's first convention on Jan 9, says Wan Azizah.

It’s a crying shame that we still continue to experience bad flash floods and slope slides all over the country, even as we seek developed country status by 2020.

The Yeo Bee Yin-Wong Kah Woh battle of words will take place at the party HQ on Friday.

PARLIAENT | This shameful conduct makes it clear he is not independent, says Gobind Singh. [VIDEO]

They were unable to carry out policies of Pakatan Harapan government, says Penang deputy chief minister.

He claims those in these posts are afraid and hence the RM2.6 billion issue remains unanswered.

An MCMC report shows the increase was due to the growing number of broadband users.

UPDATED 5.15PM | The retired admiral's remarks are simplistic and unfair, says PKR president.

But if needed, it can assist Synerflux, the firm picked to manage recruitment of 1.5m workers.

UPDATED 5.12PM | We would all stand to benefit from a system that teaches in English and Malay, says ex-minister.

UPDATED 4.21PM | Rafidah Aziz believes that bigger Muslim countries should handle the matter.

UPDATED 4.27PM | Dewan Rakyat sat for only 61 days last year, compared to British House of Commons' 162 days.

While Malaysians are struggling to free themselves from the shackles of cost of living, we are all shocked and deeply saddened by the recent Paris attack.

UPDATED 4:34PM | Philippine military doctors will conduct DNA tests to determine if this is the head of the Malaysian hostage.

UPDATED 10.59PM | PARLIAMENT | He says this jokingly when grilled on why Najib won't be called to testify over 1MDB. [VIDEO]

UPDATED 6.04PM | Hasan says it's based on the auditor-general's interim report, but auditor-general didn't probe RM2.6b donation to PM.

The death penalty is state-sanctioned murder and unique in its cruelty, says Lawyers for Liberty.

KINIBIZ | GLCs should be as far removed from politics as possible to reduce grey areas.

Special police forces launch op to catch one of the suspects in attacks.

It’s a shame Sabahans no longer feel safe in their homeland, says DAP sec-gen Lim Guan Eng.

UPDATED 3PM | After being released on bail, the former Umno Batu Kawan vice-chief says he will fight to the end.

Agnes Sandanam, who suffers from end-stage heart failure, had her wish fulfilled.

MP SPEAKS | Reinstate the mammogram and HPV vaccination programmes.

UPDATED 3.10PM | Yapeim says in police report the NGO got its documents ‘purposely to twist the facts and truth’.

Tan Seng Giaw says he was following live report on likely US-Russia anti-IS cooperation, after the Paris attack.

Last year around November, the Penang Society of Advancement of Tamils (PSAT) organised an international conference on Tamils with the sub-theme of ‘in search for an identity’. One of the topics that were discussed was the extent of human rights violations in Sri Lanka and why the international community was dragging its feet in terms of investigation and punishing those responsible for crimes against humanity.

UPDATED 6.26PM | The home minister attributes the decline to the implementation of Poca.

COMMENT | Like a pressure cooker, it will either ‘implode’ within, or ‘explode’.

UPDATED 4.17PM | PKR's Rafizi says an foreign firm is offering RM2 bil more than the asking price, and may look to recoup this.

However, Zahid refuses to say whether mandatory sentence would also be removed for other offences.

'We call upon authorities to take action against those who have perpetrated this savage and barbaric act.'

Sahabat Alam Malaysia (SAM) finds the response from the rural and development minister on the serving of turtle eggs at a function in a restaurant in Sabah baffling.

Gerakan Penang chief Teng Chang Yeow says he was shocked his remarks had been seen as racist.

As residents and voters in Bandar Cheras, we would like to commend Abdul Khalid Ibrahim on his daring decision to vote in support of the federal Budget yesterday.

UPDATED 1.15PM | Umno sec-gen says this on Sepang grassroots leaders' call for Najib to resign.

Asked if he will order police to arrest the 1MDB and SCR executives, he tells reporters to ask the police.

He praises High Court's decision to grant bail to the duo, after finding the sabotage charge is not under Sosma.

UPDATED 4.10PM | High Court grants stay as case is related to the former Umno member’s suit against the party.

UPDATED 1.35PM PARLIAMENT | Putrajaya should pick qualified contractors in stable financial position, says PAC. 

He wants to explain to NOW director Akmal Nasir the definition of the word 'patron'.

COMMENT | ‘Sooner or later, these students the country failed to educate will come back to get you, me, us.’

UPDATED 11.40AM |  They also urge the government to ban “Uberteksi” and “Grabcar” applications.

Ready for open debate with anyone on his claim, including the PAS election director, he says.

UPDATED 11.41AM | PARLIAMENT | Parliament only expresses sympathy with the family of the hostage beheaded by Abu Sayyaf.

Husam says this after Hadi challenged him to utter talak (religious oath) to prove his allegations.

UPDATED 10.26AM | High Court orders case to be tried in Sessions Court and allows duo bail.

Salahuddin Ayub says pitting his leadership style with the party chief is ‘most mischievous’.

They said the deal will make us more competitive, Najib adds after meeting US business leaders.

China will give top priority to our ties, PM says after meeting President Xi Jinping in Manila.

Hanizan Mohamed Radzi is conferred the Special Category Award by Spad.

He says this in a tweet following a report Bernard Then had been killed.

YOURSAY | 'We don't want an opposition that keeps bickering.'

Some reps hold up placards asking, ‘MB Inc is for whom’ and demand issue be debated.

MB Khaled urges all parties to come forward to help the state in this aspect.

PARLIAMENT | The deputy minister says this involved foreign transactions and witnesses.

PARLIAMENT | Joseph Entulu Belaun says there is a quota for the post.

Prolonged scandals afflicting Najib make him a liability, so leave before BN is rejected in GE14, they say.

YOURSAY | ‘Hadi is becoming more and more like an Umno politician.’

YOURSAY | ‘The main task of the new AG is to stymie the investigations on 1MDB.’

PARLIAMENT | Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki of the PM’s Dept declares funds used were from businesses generated by Yapeim.

So let’s start acting that way.