Archive - 4 April 2009

PKR: Mass defections from Kedah PPP

updated 3.34am The mass defections, which included People's Progressive Party VP V Nagarajan, meant that PPP has lost the bulk of its membership in Kedah.

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From vote-canvassing to Altantuya prayer session

Bkt Selambau With a couple more days to polling, candidates and their supporters are going all out to woo the fence-sitters.

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Vitriol unleashed against Anwar after lightning visit

Batang Ai Anwar was there for just half a day - a trip that enabled him to stump for votes in just two kampongs. That did not stop BN from issuing a leaflet deriding his credibility.

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GMI: ISA release a by-elections tactic

Don’t let the sweets fool you, says anti-ISA group GMI on the 'philanthropic' announcement made by the new PM to release 13 ISA detainees tomorrow.

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Nude pix issue makes its rounds

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Bukit Gantang A booklet attacking PAS for supporting PKR’s Elizabeth Wong over the intimate photo controversy rears its ugly head here.

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Najib slept at 3am on first day as PM

updated 5.45pm The new prime minister reveals that he did not sleep much on his first day as PM as he was watching Astro Awani’s analysis of his speech until 3am.

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Yong slams Putrajaya for rice subsidies discrimination

rice paddy padi beras sacks The value of the subsidies is a meagre RM8.4 million for Sarawak, RM12.9 million for Sabah and a whopping RM360 million for Peninsular Malaysia.

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PAS, PKR assess Najib's early moves

Are the decisions to release the 13 ISA detainees and revoke the temporary ban on two party newsletters signs of a more democratic Malaysia?

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Freedom for ISA 13 tomorrow

Police chief Musa Hassan said the 13 released ISA detainees will leave the detention camp tomorrow after all the documentation process are completed.

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Don't release and then arrest again, Najib told

anwar ibrahim and najib tun razak He told a Bukit Selambau rally last night that so long as the new premier does not abolish the Internal Security Act, the government could arrest anyone at will.

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Sapp chief: Build Sabah hospitals soon

The party will also continue to press for the fulfillment of the legitimate interests of Malaysians in Sabah under the party’s 'Eight-Point Declaration'.

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Mahathir, wife back in Umno

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updated 2.50pm The ex-PM is now back with Umno after a two-hour meeting with Najib at his official residence in Putrajaya this morning.

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Longhouse politics in Batang Ai

In a by-election in rural Sarawak, a win for the opposition would always be a miracle of sort; the playing field is tilted sky high. Then again, nothing is certain until the votes are in.

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Close fight in Batang Ai but BN likely to prevail

This contest will likely be decided by less than 300 votes either way but because of the resources which BN possesses, it will eke out a victory in this by-election.

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Waythamoorthy's stand divides Penang Hindraf leaders

The Hindu Rights Action Force chairperson’s open support for all Pakatan candidates in next week’s by-elections in the country met mixed reactions from two leaders in Penang.

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Crucial weekend to tight race

Bukit Gantang Though PAS' Mohd Nizar Jamaluddin is still the favourite to win in Bukit Gantang, the victor is likely to be decided by the weekend campaigning.

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Ageing Tajem hits campaign trail for PKR

Batang Ai Daniel Tajem, 72, had come to campaign in the Batang Ai by-election in response to Anwar Ibrahim’s request that he stump for Jawah Gerang.

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Disneygate: 'Get back every penny'

free ‘The people are not stupid and neither are the Selcat investigating team. Typical of Khir Toyo to blame others. I say get back every penny.’

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Go-Go girls: Zahid 'talking nonsense'

free ‘If he doesn't know much about the Chinese culture, then please shut up. I am a Chinese and I got very upset reading his statement. He is talking nonsense.’

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