The 2004 election was based on expectations, this one is based on the prime minister's performance in the last four years, says a political analyst.
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Exports for 2007 reached RM605.1 billion from RM589 billion in 2006, while imports grew to RM504.57 billion in 2007 from RM480.5 billion the year before.
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The idea is to help rehabilitate prisoners before they re-enter society.
000This announcement comes as the country prepares for national elections in which the spiralling cost of basic food items will be a major issue.
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The environmental damage wrought by the timber companies that are cutting swathes through the rainforests is not the only challenge faced by the nomadic Penan.
00Budget airlines, led by AirAsia, began flying the route today, ending 30 years of dominance by the national carriers.
00Mahathir previously said he made a mistake in picking Abdullah, and should have opted for influential deputy prime minister Najib Abdul Razak.
0Agreement by Singapore and Malaysia to free up the sector is long overdue and will result in huge spin-offs not just for the tourism industry but also for the wider economy, said analysts.
0In the most recent case, an elderly ethnic Chinese man was buried as a Muslim last week after his Buddhist family lost a battle with Islamic authorities who said he had converted.
0Mahathir, a contemporary of Suharto during their long terms in power, says that accounts the former Indonesian leader killed some 500,000 people after taking power in 1965 were "absolute nonsense".
0Twelve of the 56 have been released but the remainder - including Malaysiakini journalist Syed Jaymal Zahiid - are expected to be charged with illegal assembly today.
0The death of former Indonesian president Suharto was a great loss to the region, Malaysia's Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said Sunday.
0As well as the stockpile of essential goods, which will include rice and cooking oil, the government is to set up a National Price Council to prevent irregularities like hoarding and panic-buying.
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'Foreign investments, we have lost. Growth, we have lost. Attractiveness, which is key to an emerging market, is lost. Not to China and India, but to Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia because of our obsolete policies.'
0Malaysia, the chair of the 57-nation OIC, the world's largest grouping of Muslim nations, called on the international community to force Israel to lift the blockade immediately.
0He said laws were required to curb social ills like public kissing between young couples, and to protect women from being groped while queuing up.
0There were signs that they (the Malays) were preparing to come out so we had to tell them, 'Look, don't make the situation any worse', says Najib on why ISA was used.
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