Soon Li Tsin

updated 5.40pm The MCA chief has declined to comment on a sex video scandal which surfaced in Johor two days ago that allegedly involves a national leader from the state.

In an about-turn, the Internal Security Ministry has allowed the Catholic weekly to continue to print without any condition, after earlier threatening to revoke its licence in a row over the word 'Allah'.

In yesterday’s landmark judgment, potentially explosive issues such as jurisdiction, conversion and custody of a child were raised but confusion reigns.

Father Lawrence Andrew revealed the Internal Security Ministry had sent a directive that the weekly’s BM section will be effectively abolished when the new permit is issued.

It took more than an hour for the judgment to be read in court. The majority decision was delivered by Nik Hashim, while Abdul Aziz delivered the minority decision.

updated 8.30pm However the Federal Court three-member panel threw out R Subashini case on a legal technicality - that her divorce petition was 'premature and invalid'.

The fate of whether an Indian Hindu wife can seek justice in the civil courts - despite her Islam-convert husband initiating divorce proceeding in the syariah courts - will be known tomorrow.

Anwar can show candy and draw 4,000 spectators but showing candy alone will not settle problems of the Indian community, says the MIC strongman.

The suit concerns the import ban on Indonesian books containing words of ‘Allah’ inside and the ‘illegal’ seizure of the church’s Sunday school materials.

It’s all about preventing confusion, claimed the deputy internal security minister.

updated 6.26pm The duo in their capacity as transport minister allegedly gave written undertakings that the government would absorb any financial liabilities of the troubled Port Klang Authority.

The attorney-general had over-reacted by bringing the attempted murder charge and other charges against the Hindraf 31, said opposition leaders.

updated version Six of the group - five of them university students - were freed of all charges and the rest have pleaded guilty to causing mischief and illegal assembly.

The de facto PKR leader said while he supported Hindraf’s demands, he disagreed with some of the organisation’s wild rhetoric.

Technicians, lorry drivers, students, odd-job workers - they are the 31 individuals currently in Sungai Buloh prison for alleged attempted murder of a cop.

Charge the Hindraf leaders in open court or release them unconditionally, said several organisations and political parties who kept up the pressure on the government.

updated version However, the PKR de facto leader said the additional evidence will only be reviewed “when the time is right”.

Both parties need more time to sort out documents after a minor mix-up involving documents.

updated version N Gobalakrishnan is accused of using criminal force to intimidate police officers and breaking public property during a gathering at the Batu Caves temple on Nov 25.

Lawyers for three Hindraf leaders discharge themselves from appearing in a stay application against the reinstatement of the Klang sedition charge as their client was not brought to court by the police.

updated version Possibly for another sedition offence, this would be the third sedition charge faced by the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leader.

updated version The Shah Alam High Court rules that a Sessions Court judge had erred in law and misdirected herself when discharging the three Hindraf leaders based on a 'defective' charge sheet.

Lawyers for the three have also written to Chief Justice Abdul Hamid Mohamad to appoint a Court of Appeal judge to preside over the revision hearing.

S Arumugam also claims to suffer from blurred vision as a result of the incident during the Hindu Action Rights Force rally.