Siva Sithraputhran

The Kedah MB has a familiar face, even if he lacks the charisma, provocative rhetoric and razor-sharp political skills of his father.

UPDATED 9.58PM Tomorrow's rally will be the beginning of a 'fierce movement' to clean this country from election malpractices, says Anwar Ibrahim.

On Sunday, Anwar has his best - and seemingly last - chance to complete a comeback from beaten-down prisoner to leader of his country.

'We don't know the cost yet,' says Defence Minister Zahid. But industry sources said it could run into billions of dollars.

Bar Council president Lim Chee Wee says the threat by Perkasa's Ibrahim Ali should result in charges under various laws.

It's a staggering move to dam waterways by 2020 for cheap energy - and turn the poorest state into an industrial hub.

If the ETP ends up largely relying on state funding, that could pressure Malaysia’s public finances, which have been weakening.

A handout says signs of homosexuality in boys may include preferences for tight, light coloured clothes and large handbags.

The surplus fell well short of a median forecast for a RM9.1 billion surplus given by a Reuters poll of 17 analysts, and was the lowest since April 2002.

The government had opened spending taps with an election looming that could be the closest in the country’s history.

For many it looked like politics, not water, was behind the problem - a measure of how tensions are running ahead of GE13.

ANALYSIS A ratcheting-up of inflammatory language and violence has shocked even seasoned observers in the run-up to polls.

The handful of demonstrators seems an unlikely obstacle to plans by Lynas Corp to build its RM2.5 billion plant.