Archive - 23 April 2017

Now to put things back to its original perspective - and that should bring to mind that the 30 percent reservations for bumiputra is a reasonable privilege and assistance given to help boost up their standards of living, wealth and status in Malaysia - let alone to help the bumiputra catch up with the ‘successes’ of the Chinese Malaysians and Indian Malaysians in the rat race, who were then moving at a faster pace and well ahead in almost every field throughout the nation.

A six-year-old boy died of heatstroke after he was trapped in a van parked under the afternoon sun for several hours in Rawang.

This is for likening the name of his deceased father to an animal.

'Our revolutionary forces are combat-ready to sink a US nuclear-powered aircraft carrier with a single strike.'

Kamalanathan comments on the teacher who threw a chair at an eight-year-old, causing head injuries.

UPDATED 8.37PM | The 11-year-old, who is now in a coma, had his legs amputated to avoid infection.

COMMENT | Waythamoorthy pens seven-point letter to Asri after his controversial poem.

Gov't has helped with housing, roads and a school, BN leader reminds voters.

It is to go up from 48 sen to RM1 for every 1,000 litres of water used by domestic users after 35,000 litres a month.

Some RM150 million in cash and goods seized last year, but he is appointed to party post in CM’s constituency.

Especially gangsterism involving them, Deputy Home Minister Nur Jazlan says.

UPDATED 8.15PM | 'It has nothing to do with elections, although I won't prevent it if Indians want to support BN.'

The Umno sec-gen agrees with Khairy, except that his reasoning appears to be different.

Mother tongue education is important, DPM says at celebration of Ugadi, the Telugu New Year.

Tengku Adnan says opposition reps in associations of traders are driving the prices up.

FT Ministry is allocating the sum for people’s housing and public housing projects in the federal capital.

This is with the formation of a high-level committee between the two nations, he says.

However, except for a few, most traders follow the new ruling, despite being unhappy about it.

The minister relies on a line from the holy book in response to Asri's poetry pow-wow.

UPDATED 3.20PM | Old parties don't be stingy, new parties don't be greedy, says Saifuddin Nasution.

UPDATED 2.35PM | This is part of opposition's strategy to contest as one coalition in GE14, adds the Harapan sec-gen.

Survey Najib cited is meaningless as sharp price increases of goods and services are our burden, says Syed Ibrahim.

UPDATED 3.29PM | Don't be like DAP in criticising Islam, a PAS ulama tells a certain member.

Sultan of Kelantan, Sultan Muhammad V, will assume office as the country’s 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

'No matter what the reason, we will not let it happen,' says Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi.

Voting this time is seen as the most unpredictable in living memory, and it will also be key for the fate of euro zone and EU.

The suspects include two previously remanded over another murder case.

MALAYSIANSKINI | He tried selling his art once, no one wanted it. Now brands are lining up to get him on board.

UPDATED 12.23PM | The mufti says he has always been fair to all religions, and asks 'what they really want'.

Police claims the comments on Facebook are offensive to the Johor royalty.

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

YOURSAY | ‘BN is worried of young and intelligent Malays and they are trying to ‘kill’ Zairil and Dyana politically.’

Yet another blueprint for the Indian Malaysian community is to be announced on Sunday April 23, 2017. This blueprint is the prime minister’s initiative to give hope to the Indian Malaysian community in return for their vote. Unfortunately, the bureaucrats do not seem to be involved in the design and implementation of this plan. Private individuals, NGOs and some businesspersons have provided input and rolled out the blueprint.

YOURSAY | ‘Abu Bakar Bashir, a radical Islamist from Indonesia, was given sanctuary by the gov’t earlier.’