Archive - 22 November 2017

This is following the decision by the Speaker to give the marching order to a BN rep during today's sitting. 

The 48-year-old woman had befriended the suspect on Facebook and later stayed in a hotel with him. 

'As long as Najib continues to burden the people, this campaign will continue,' says Amanah Youth chief.

PARLIAMENT | Tourism minister says any such ban by MAS would be unconstitutional. 

Those with radical ideologies are using social media to instigate acts of terrorism, said the deputy minister.

The court will decide on Dec 21 whether to permit Ezam's request, as he is facing striking out applications from all the defendants.

'The legal advisors will need to study this. If we want to revive it, it will be a major issue,' says Chong Sin Woon. 

'We are not English, we are Malaysian and it will be unsuitable if English was used as a medium of instruction in national schools.'

The prime minister said the decision was made at the request of President Michel Aoun. 

The new weekly price for RON95 and RON97 will be RM2.30 and RM2.58 per litre respectively.

Sultan Ibrahim says the crisis involving Malay leaders will cause a split among Malays and weaken them.

The minister explains his absence from Parliament on Monday, during the bloc vote for Budget 2018.

LETTER | Bersatu and its chairperson should stop pressuring ROS to approve its registration.

They claim the disproportionate number of voters in their constituencies is in violation of the constitution.

PAHANG DUN | Tengku Zulpuri Shah says he is willing to absorb blows and not retaliate.

Application by Mkini Dotcom Sdn Bhd and two editors is to strike out a suit by PM and Umno executive secretary Ab Rauf Yusoh.

Cheah Kah Peng is one of the 'PKR 5' who earned the ire of the CM for abstaining from voting on Umno motion. 

The prime minister's wife says she only intends to support her husband.

UPDATED 7PM | PARLIAMENT | Tan Kok Wai sees red over a deputy minister's remark concerning gambling operators in his constituency.

COMMENT | Parallels between Najib and Mugabe suggest that M'sia has become Southeast Asia's Zimbabwe.

Parti Bersatu Sabah lashes out at Warisan president for alleging BN leaders kept mum on Christian rights.

'We realise that they are poor, and it is unjust of us to shut out their source of livelihood,' Najib says.

Vell Paari points to Moody's rating of India following the implementation of GST and direct assistance programmes.

Zahid says working with Aseanapol and Interpol to track detainees who reportedly enterered M'sia.

Border guards were only steps behind their fellow soldier who managed to escape to the S Korean side.

Khalid Ibrahim is unperturbed by Puncak Niaga's RM14 billion suit against him and his successor.

UPDATED 8.32PM | Budget was passed with 52-51 vote, but opposition claims it has a list of names to prove it was actually a tie.

COMMENT | 'What makes people despise niqabs and burqas, when they defend the right to wear hijabs?'

The MyKMU.net portal also compares Mahathir's sacking of Anwar to Najib dropping Muhyiddin from the cabinet.

Norzula Mat Diah is ordered out of state assembly for repeatedly interjecting exco member’s speech.

This is aimed at preventing the abuse of the cryptocurrency for criminal and unlawful activities.

UPDATED 2.30PM | Tran Thi Mai claims trial to two counts of bribing an MMEA director.

Maimunah Sharif insists that the officers were "just doing their jobs" in accordance with council's bylaws.

Teo Nie Ching asks why MCA did not take on Mahathir, Muhyiddin and Anwar when they were in the government.

COMMENT | PM's visit to Anwar in hospital has spawned speculation that a deal's in the offing. It's rank implausible.

Prosecutors claim Ahmad Syafi Husam was caught with 200 'pil kuda'.

Police say nobody was injured in the Sunday morning incident.

S Arutchelvan notes the similarities between the two nonagenarians.

Bank Negara says one thing, but cabinet does another with luxury development freeze, says Tony Pua.

Most voters believe that Harapan has been running the state fairly well, reports Channel NewsAsia.

The company claims that the Selangor gov't is 'vicariously liable for the acts of Khalid and Azmin.'

UPDATED 7.44PM | KL's Bandar M'sia project not hit by cabinet's development moratorium, says Mohd Amin Nordin.

Prosecutors are demanding life sentence for Serbian general accused of ordering Srebrenica massacre.

Umno MP owes Malaysian women an apology over 'derogatory comment', says Heng Seai Kie.

Mnangagwa is long seen as possible Mugabe successor.

SPECIAL REPORT | The Sarawakian diaspora believes that switching voting addresses will cost them native rights.

UPDATED 11.10AM | Two employees fired after company disclosed it paid hackers to keep secret a massive breach last year.

Minister argues against those who peddle the idea of changing the government as a 'fix-it-all'.

YOURSAY| ‘Why do you need office space equivalent to the size of five football fields?’

Such meetings between Malay potentates present good optics to their political bases.

Many know how vital their business reputation is, but few understand how to enhance it through storytelling .

The 30 politicians who have pledged to declare their assets have done something monumental.

YOURSAY | ‘I suggest we create a Ministry of Men's Sexual Wellbeing.’

'The most important thing today is to bring about change. We don't want to become like Zimbabwe,' the DAP veteran adds.

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

Celebrations break out after parliamentary speaker announces Mugabe's resignation.