Archive - 1 August 2016

His body will be buried after Zohor prayer on Wednesday at the Bukit Kiara Muslim Cemetery.

'It’s just a rumour,' he says in a text message. 

'It affects Singapore’s reputation as a financial centre. It is not doing the right thing,' says former premier. 

The telco teams up with ride-hailing platform Grab to allow players to book a free ride to play the game.

'I think that in nearly all religions there is always a small fundamentalist group.'

Deputy Minister Kamalanathan says the total showed an increase compared to 2014.

Motion should be tabled by state opposition chief, says Guan Eng.

He says the appointment came with responsibilities to ensure continuity of transformation.

He says this as a reminder to all Umno members attending divisional delegates meetings.

The suit is in connection with Mara’s property dealings in Australia.

UPDATED 7.35PM | The MP is investigated under the Communications and Multimedia Act.

UPDATED 7.09PM | Finance Minister II dismisses it as 'inconsequential'.

The Umno man says the whole episode was just to distract the people from the probe against the Penang CM.

UPDATED 6.48PM | AG says the matter is still under investigation by the authorities here.

The postings implied PM's wife had inappropriately cozied up to the ruler.

UPDATED 6.40PM | 'If you want to give the money to us, we want to hear,' says AG Apandi of 1MDB-linked case.

Former PM says only stupid people don't know who 'Malaysian Official 1' is.

A forest department team was dispatched to trap the leopard but it escaped.

PKR president however describes the cancellation of the snap election as the 'right decision'.

UPDATED 5.12PM | Opposition Leader to get time to speak, Rights Committee to review reps' assets.

“When a woman’s features are beautiful, she’s bound to have shortcomings and there are bound to be others who will be jealous of her and not like her. This is just like the GST.”

The US AG is well within her rights and the issue of sovereignty does not arise.

This is how much Malaysians spend on their food, says Finance Minister II Johari Abdul Ghani.

COMMENT | Pakatan Harapan wants gov't to honour Conference of Rulers and put Act on hold.

UPDATED 6PM | Azalina responds to queries on whether gov't will send legal aid to the duo.

Lately we have come to notice that there are more and more police reports being made against individuals which sometimes seem to be outrageous and ridiculous to say the least.

Save Malaysia Stop Lynas says questions on safety, waste disposal not answered since 2012.

RM142m in taxes will be collected this month to cover for gov't subsidies, claims Rafizi.

The BN Backbenchers Council website cites a blogger saying Anifah denies it's his business.

UPDATED 5.18PM | No agreement reached; both parties will meet again next month, says the minister in charge of law.

Today, Aug 1, 2016 marks another milestone for our country for sailing through uncharted waters of political turbulence, corruption lawsuits as well as the implementation of the controversial National Security Council (NSC) Act 2016.

The accountant who previously helmed Malayan Banking Bhd also reorganised Telekom Malaysia Bhd.

Dzulkifli Ahmad also seeks cooperation from the anti-graft body in facing the 'daunting challenge' of fighting graft.

Emails of some 90 officials from three ministries have been subject to hacking attacks.

The water company had earlier rejected a takeover offer of RM250 million.

UPDATED 4.12PM | 'Uphold right to peaceful assembly - do not make disparaging remarks on protesters,' Suhakam told.

I asked the officers in my organisation on who they call to complain about road conditions along the Federal Highway near Seri Setia (at the former Motorola exit heading towards Klang). Agencies such as Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL), Petaling Jaya City Council (MBPJ) and the Public Works Department (JKR) have been bandied about.

Nazifuddin's appeal dismissed - he's to make payment as guarantor of a company that had defaulted.

They say the proposed rally on Aug 27 is not a threat to national security.

This has been subject to delays due to a dispute over Ankara’s crackdown.

North Korea has more than 8,000 law graduates, according to an official 2008 census.

UPDATED 12.19PM | Raja Bahrin asks how Umno's deputy Youth chief can prove this, since not even MPs have access.

At the St Maria church in Rome, the imams entered the sanctuary and sat down in the front row.

Bill to allow EC to carve out new constituencies to be tabled at the state assembly.

Azlan Man says he has never issued any such statement as claimed by a blogger.

COMMENT | Seeing the top two MACC men bundled out does not augur well for the future.

Arriving at its HQ in Putrajaya at 8am, he was welcomed by MACC’s top officials.

UPDATED 12.15PM | CCCC says it has no knowledge of claim made in Sarawak Report.

The rights watchdog slams the law, saying it gives authorities unchecked and abusive powers.

Perak DAP chief Nga says his party’s decision to scrap polls ups one on BN.

Former defence minister Yuriko Koike beats her challengers with more than a million votes.

YOURSAY | 'Concentrate on good governance, serve the rakyat well, and be rewarded in GE14.'

Something handy to instill fear in you.

COMMENT | What mattered was a decision was made, and the rakyat have won this battle.

It will hold talks with the automotive industry, banks and housing developers, says its chairperson.

Seven generations won't be able to spend riches made by Muhyiddin while in Umno, Razlan Rafii says.

YOURSAY | ‘I would go with the known devil for the sake of this nation.’

KINI ROUNDUP | Key headlines that you may have missed yesterday, in brief.

YOURSAY | ‘Malott has successfully highlighted the tragic comedy called Malaysia.’

Nadem Hashemi, the director of the Centre for Middle-East Studies of the University of Denver, has labelled Malaysia as a failed nation because of its failure to live up to the expectation of fighting radical Islam. This disheartening remark was made by the US-based scholar during his talk in the seminar entitled ‘The IS Crisis and the Spread of Radical Islam’ recently in UKM.