Archive - 1 September 2019

UPDATED 11.15PM | In response, Najwan Halimi tweets that being a leader isn't about 'helping cronies'.

LETTER | True democracy is of the people, for the people and by the people.

UPDATED 10.35PM: Ex-Umno vice-president adds report on him being investigated not true.

UPDATED 8.15PM | In response, Ramasamy asks if the minister wants Harapan leaders to be sycophants.

Maal Hijrah celebration brings the message of a developed country with strong unity.

'We can only deliver our promises step-by-step,' says minister.

'We are not asking for higher take-home wages; we are only asking for a real wage.'

A more multi-faceted approach would make such programmes more impactful, it says.

Weeks of demonstrations have turned into the biggest sustained protest movement since 2013.

UPDATED 3.52PM | Organisers urged the public to overwhelm road and rail links to the HK International Airport.

COMMENT | Poverty lines are not about survival alone, and even 'absolute poverty' lines need to be dynamic.

LETTER | Pumping in more subsidies and welfare benefits will not solve poverty.

COMMENT | I’ve lost count of DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang’s doomsayer remarks over the past few months.

'New M'sia' is mere rhetoric, he says, as little has changed since Harapan took over from BN.

Sultan Nazrin takes aim at leaders on both sides willing to stoop to such lows to gain political mileage.

LETTER | Read Zakir Naik's apology, and see if he qualifies for the 'to err is human' maxim.

UPDATED 9AM | Police fire round after round of tear gas, while protesters take cover behind umbrellas.

The masked suspect tried to attack a police officer with his 74cm sword.

Police say the active shooter was shot dead in an Odessa cinema complex.

The dam is a water source for the people of Simpang Renggam, Layang-Layang and Northern Pontian.

FAM sec-gen Stuart Ramalingam says the money is from MFL's broadcast rights and the teams' deposits.

A man believed to be an Afghan national was arrested after the attack in Villeurbanne.

Police say the suspects expressed regret for the error and said it was unintentional.

Boris Johnson has pledged to take the UK out of the EU on Oct 31 with or without a deal.

ADUN SPEAKS | The crux of the problem in M'sia is its structurally corrupt, ossified institutions.

COMMENT | One of my best friends died in a motorcycle accident 16 years ago - I haven’t ridden one since.

COMMENT | The discourse has been dominated by frustration over non-Malay communities’ refusal to integrate.

YOURSAY | ‘The apple does not fall far from the tree. Notice the arrogance in Nooryana Najwa's response?’

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