updated 6.30pm
V Thirunama Karasu tells the inquiry of his brother alleged close ties with more top judges, whose names were mentioned for the first time today.
0Lingam tape inquiry updated 7.50pm The PKR de facto leader and the social reform movement have declined to withdraw remarks deemed to be in contempt of the royal panel.
0000Lingam tape inquiry The embattled lawyer alleges that the Malaysian Bar legal team’s lead counsel Robert Lazar had sought his help to be made a Court of Appeal judge.
0PKR leader Anwar Ibrahim releases another five-minute clip. This time senior lawyer VK Lingam implicates former chief justice Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah. [VIDEO INSIDE]
0updated 7.40pm Two other PKR leaders and the two ‘secret witnesses’ offered by Anwar will not be called in to testify as well but the commission allows some of the evidence produced by Lingam’s brother.
0updated 9.15pm The media and public are barred as the commission members hear submissions from lawyers acting for former deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim and lawyer VK Lingam’s brother Thirunama Karasu.
0Lingam tape inquiry VK Lingam says this when asked why he admitted to being the person in the photos but not the explosive video clip which was taken at the same occasion.
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updated 9.04pm
'My house is my castle. I am the king there. I can talk whatever rubbish in my house as long as I don’t get drunk outside and misbehave.'
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0He said that in 2004, there were high expectations that a ‘lot of things would be changed but I can’t change everything’. [VIDEO INSIDE]
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In an attempt to get a date with the commission, the PKR de facto leader says he has new evidence to bring before the inquiry. However, he was told to write in first.
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updated 9.30pm
Loh Gwo Burne confirmed that he had recorded it with a high-end camera and also identified lawyer Lingam as the person in the footage.
0After three-weeks of anguish, Ngiam Tee Keong is relieved that he can claim the remains of his wife following a dispute over her alleged conversion to Islam. [VIDEO INSIDE]
0After having just completed his three-year suspension from his Umno division post for money politics, Astaman Abdul Aziz is back with a vengeance. [VIDEO INSIDE]
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Lingam tape inquiry
Confidential letters between former chief justice Mohamed Dzaiddin and ex-prime minister Mahathir shed some light on the way and manner judges are appointed or potential candidates discarded.
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news analysis
Will Dr Koh Tsu Koon take his predecessor’s advice to head the Penang BN in the next general election or represent Gerakan at federal level?
0Fresh from their successful seat talks in Penang, DAP and PKR leaders would now have to use all their political know-how to seal similar amicable solutions in the other two contentious states.
0MCA Youth leader Ling Hee Leong continues to level criticism against the party president over his handling of the Dr Chua Soi Lek sex scandal.
0The party also decides to appoint a Chua Shoi Lek ally to assume the Johor state chief post in an acting capacity.
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updated 8.40pm
The MCA today added to the rising temperature of the election fever by postponing its party polls due to start in March to three months until after the general election.
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The ex-MCA president’s son and the Youth No 2 has criticised party leaders over their handling of the sex scandal involving the former VP Dr Chua Soi Lek.
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He accuses his political enemies of orchestrating the release of a video showing him having sex with an unidentified woman in a hotel room.
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