Archive - 14 September 2016

Satirists may be our lost jesters now found.

Khaled Nordin says Umno must focus on strengthening Islam as its agenda.

It is just propaganda to poison the minds of the rakyat, and Nov 19 date will be pushed back, he predicts.

It alleges there has been no investigation, and the hospital even tried to obstruct the autopsy process.

Shamsul Iskandar suspects politicking the reason the cow is still alive.

Anita Yusof rides solo on a motorcycle for 370 days, crossing over 40 countries.

Noh says his ministry will take proactive measures to ensure that money lending facilities are not abused by license holders.

The PM will attend, and the sports minister promises a big do with a surprise at KLIA.

This is on a unified stand on abortion for mothers infected with Zika.

However its president S Subramaniam says truce called, angry exchanges between BN component parties to stop.

It can be used as an explosive by fishermen to catch fish, while terrorists use it to make bombs.

The time has come for the Malaysian government to make Malaysia Day on Sept 16 a National Day in the genuine sense of the term for all Malaysians and not just in Sabah and Sarawak.

He is expected to recover within weeks, says his wife.

Bersih has just announced that Nov 19 is the date for Bersih 5. The very line-up of Malaysians of various ethnic origins at the press conference in the meaningful, striking but once outlawed yellow T-shirts is enough to charge up the rakyat’s hope for a better nation.

Five of the elephants were already dead when wildlife officers found them on Saturday.

The fatwa is aimed at discouraging the clearing of land using slash-and-burn methods.

When one witnesses wrong being committed and remains silent, this tent amounts to condoning what is wrong. Both silence and continued association reveals an inability to stand up for what is right and so many well-educated and intentioned individuals continue tolerating the obvious wrong.

This could make the theory that the pilot crashed the airliner intentionally into the ocean less likely.

COMMENT | Here are the five demands of the Bersih 5 rally.

The crowdfunding itself manages to collect RM89,160 from 133 supporters.

If the Zika virus can get a strong foothold in squeaky clean Singapore - although it is possible that the infection was transmitted by travellers as Singapore is a tourist and commercial hub - one shudders at what will happen in Malaysia especially in the urban areas, which are a haven for mosquitoes due to the insanitary and untidy conditions.

Lasimbang charged with failing to give a 10-day notice for KK leg of Bersih 4. Similar charge against Bersih chair quashed recently.

He says Siti Noor Iasah Mohamad Ariffin had done well despite missing a medal.

As a result, former Perak MB Nizar is expected to get RM250,000 in a defamation suit.

It looks like public interest in the virtual phone game is not about to wane anytime soon.

Muhammad Basri of the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen was captured in the town of Poso.

UPDATED 4.50PM | Kimberley Motley says this after Home Ministry approved a meeting with Anwar.

Anti-graft NGO C4 says it will work with other NGOs for a proposal on such a law for the gov’t to study.

This is because the exercise may influence outcomes of up to three general elections.

COMMENT | Numbers don’t truly represent the real matrix of happiness for the citizenry.

Vell Paari says it's a form of terrorism to destroy the nation.

The foundation is being investigated to make sure it’s complying with New York laws.

They and single mothers are prone to fall to such syndicates run by foreign men, Bukit Aman says.

Do Malaysians really care about sharks? Outside of Steven Spielberg-made or inspired films, or wedding banquet pièce de résistance (main dish, or, perhaps “I can’t resist this piece”), how do we look at these magnificent creatures?

UPDATED 3.40PM | Gerakan Merah to hold butt exercises in front of Maria Chin's house.

On PM Najib's suit against the news portal’s publishing of readers’ comments on the Terengganu MB imbroglio.

UPDATED 3.13PM | Proposal they be given moneylending licences is not for them to offer housing loans, it says.

This after it was reported Ambank officers facilitated fund transfer from 1MDB.

COMMENT | My advice to Anwar: Listen not to the forked tongues of ‘trusted colleagues’, but hark the wise admonition from your daughter Nurul Nuha.

UPDATED 2.39PM | 'Bersih believes that not protesting is not an option,' says chairperson Maria Chin.

This comes less than a week after the elected village chief was jailed for corruption.

In March incident, door of A330 aircraft was damaged when it struck an aerobridge.

COMMENT | Suggesting it should be a priority reflects a terrible tendency amongst town and city planners for grandiosity, tokenism.

It shows gov’t’s willingness to build the country and quell grouses of the grassroots, says Sabah minister.

Nurul Nuha says Mahathir must own up to the 'trumped-up' sodomy and corruption charges against Anwar back in 1998.

MP SPEAKS | Exposing the agreement will assure the public that they are not being cheated by the gov't concessionaire.

Kimberley Motley says in Afghanistan she would never have been denied access to her client.

‘Its problem is that the ultra-Malays are in charge now.’

Its president, Mah Siew Keong, says the remaining 10pct would be finalised next month.

A poll of 1,700 jobseekers reveals that 80.6 percent of them face difficulty finding employment these days.

The health minister says they were detected in Miri and in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur.

YOURSAY | ‘Johor has awakened today by calling an apple what it is - an apple.’

COMMENT | It is no longer cronyism and nepotism, but kleptocracy that M’sians have to face.

Apandi is slammed for dancing with ministers, but predecessor Abu Talib Othman says judge him on his job performance.

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

The law was rightly upheld in these cases, says former UN special rapporteur Param Cumaraswamy.

YOURSAY | ‘Like all Umno people, 'shame' isn't part of her vocabulary.’

YOURSAY | ‘Great returns await, since DBKL pales in the shadow of MO1's 1MDB.’

While he believes its possible effects need to be studied, Khalid Ibrahim argues the minister's plan could work.