Archive - 13 October 2016

Spiritual leader Hashim Jasin says he regards PAS-DAP ties as beyond reconciliation.

The Pakistanis were arrested while participating in an annual ceremony of Ashura.

The PM’s Department officer says Proton is now being managed professionally.

UPDATED 9.50PM | The palace did not give a reason for his death. He was 88 years old.

Permaisuri Raja Zarith Sofiah notes there has been much speculation on who will be next Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

Eight crocodile attacks were recorded from January to September 2016.

The lorry driver had been retrieved from the vehicle and sent to the Sungai Buloh Hospital.

He won for creating ‘new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition’.

Race-based BN component parties not qualified to demand for explanation.

My heartiest congratulations to the MIC Youth chief, C Sivaarrajh, for coming up with I-Padu. The fact that the willingness to be audited is coming from a MIC leader itself is very impressive and was surely one that was not expected by many of us. Bravo, our society needs more youngsters like Sivaarrajh to be on the front lines.

Kit Siang expresses shock as the bill is set to be tabled in Parliament again.

Works Minister Fadillah Yusof should be held accountable for the gross delay in the Petra Jaya Hospital project.

UPDATED 7.10PM | Without mentioning names, PM takes a swipe at Mahathir and Anwar.

The Consumer Association of Penang (CAP) urges the urgent implementation of price controls on pharmaceutical drugs. As stated by Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Hamzah Zainuddin in a local daily, “Malaysians have been paying excessive prices for pharmaceutical drugs due to an absence of government control.”

Ex-MCA president filed the application to strike out the PM's defamation suit.

Incentives could be related to R&D, to help promote knowledge development.

Mokhzani says he has been asked to leave the post which he held since 2003.

The millionaire faces 32 charges under the GST Act.

Human Rights Watch likens second report on freedom of expression in M'sia to a 'bad movie sequel'. 

Swiss investigators believe this much of 1MDB-linked funds flowed through Falcon Bank.

The Education Ministry apologises for the delay, he adds.

The party will decide today whether to accept the ex-Umno senator who submitted his application to Muhyiddin.

Azam Baki says the commission had lodged a police report on the video clip. 

UPDATED 4.34PM | Arman Che Othman pleads not guilty to all 13 counts, involving RM125,200.

Gov’t trying to put Internet genie into the bottle and go back to the times of print media control, says HRW.

Nasrudin's lawyer says client has paid Guan Eng RM10,000 costs.

At 1.30pm, ship tracking website shows Equanimity cruising just 16km off Port Dickson.

Umno's Zahidi is the adviser of Penang Front Party, Padang Besar MP and Risda chairperson.

It says Penang CM's is managing the island's economy poorly, suggests he needs a mentor.

The Federal Court makes this ruling today in the case of an ex-cop detained under the ISA.

Last week many of us saw the news on social media, a parang-wielding Malay youth robbed two women at a neighbourhood security post. Now the police are looking for a 17-year-old Malay boy. Like many, I am shell-shocked, seventeen is really young for a person to commit such a brazen crime.

He was alleged to have stabbed her at Menara Jade, Bukit Indah on Oct 4.

Salleh Said denies ex-PM's claim that the government wants to kill Proton.

Almost a year ago, we moved into our new home in a new residential area in Sungai Buloh, Selangor.

Claims are for circulatory system diseases, cancer, respiratory conditions and gastro-intestinal diseases.

Voting by the nine royal rulers tomorrow will be by secret ballot.

UPDATED 8.15PM | They hand over the objections to the Selangor EC headquarters in Shah Alam.

This comes as the royal household announces King Bhumibol’s blood pressure has dropped again.

Siti Kassim was sending aid to her clients who are blockading logging in Gua Musang.

'I cannot stand to see him suffer with his pain alone without me being by his side,' says Suhaida Mohamad.

NGO presents this to Penang CM in protest at Komtar, says he should do these first, before supporting Bersih 5.

Taiwan is going all out to tap the burgeoning Muslim tourism market of 117 million travellers.

Irmohizam Ibrahim says political funds disbursed must be audited and recorded.

This is in response to two women claiming in an NYT article that he had groped and kissed them without their consent.

UPDATED 1.45PM | He adds: 'Far more is at stake for Malaysia than just my personal freedom.'

This is because the McDonald's mascot runs the risk of being mistaken as a prankster.

The deradicalisation programme is to counter terrorism and rehabililtate extremists.

They include construction of roads, says the DPM.

UPDATED 12.50PM | Order is given after DPP informs court that AG has accepted representations by the accused.

Education Ministry announces this after Labuan Matriculation College students left penniless without allowance.

To allow syndicates to run gambling, prostitution, drugs and loan shark activities unchecked, says Musa Hassan.

Under the mutual legal assistance procedure, there are 13 situations where the attorney-general can do so.

One solution is to go cashless.

YOURSAY | ‘If we miss this opportunity, we will be cutting our nose to spite our face.’

YOURSAY | ‘People who have no walking disabilities do not need to use crutches.’

Implications of Budget 2017, GST and the Companies Act on Businesses in Malaysia

This is why he is wary of joining Bersatu, despite his respect for Mahathir.

Time to invest in leaders who can lead justly.

INTERVIEW | This in response to his comments that those not well-versed in BM be stripped of their citizenship.

Indeed Malaysians await with pregnant hope for the ultimate redemption of justice in Malaysia. The question we must address as a nation desirous of exemplary values, ethics, principles and above all as a true and moderate nation whose official religion is also Islam, is, will the Malaysian government and machinery under the leadership of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak choose to blatantly ignore or embrace the world opinion and support given to Anwar Ibrahim?

Oct 6, 2016, last Tuesday, marked a paradigm shift in strengthening Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor’s (Jais) efforts to curb syariah crimes such as ‘khalwat’ (close proximity) or indoctrination of deviant teachings.

Sept 28 marked the Global Day of Action to Access to Safe and Legal Abortion.

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

YOURSAY | ‘When the time comes for their withdrawal of the pension fund, there may not be any money left.’