Archive - 13 April 2010

The private detective who has given conflicting statements regarding the Altantuya murder is believed to lying low outside Malaysia.

The MIC election machinery is moving in full gear now in identifying the Indian voters in Hulu Selangor said party vice-president Dr S Subramaniam.

MIC president S Samy Vellu has threatened legal action against a news portal for publishing a report that he said was highly mischievous.

Selangor will soon be the second state after Penang to implement an open tender system for all government procurement.

The finance ministry has created oligopolies controlling all forms of supplies and services to all government bodies thereby enriching only a select few, reveals an MP.

With less than 48 hours before BN announces its candidate, there appears to be rift between MIC and Umno.

The Court of Appeal will fix another date to complete hearing an appeal against a landmark judgment involving native customary rights in Bintulu.

His officers have to make ‘split-second decisions’ when fired upon by criminals, he argues.

UPDATED 8.45PM The one-year contract signed between the government and Apco amounted to a whopping RM77 million. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Yayasan 1Malaysia says the formation of an interfaith relations working committee is a good move.

DPM Muhyiddin Yassin today denied news reports that he had dubbed the cabinet-established interfaith committee as "small fry".

Party wants its parliamentarians to embrace new technology to stay in touch with younger voters.

Minister in the PM's Department Jamil Khir Baharom will organise a meeting to brief muftis of the new inter-faith committee.

The group, headed by G Thanagaran, said they were forming a new MIC branch for the Kampung Padang Buluh-Padang Tembak in the Kulim-Bandar Baharu area.

The Selangor Menteri Besar said the BN controlled federal government has been using federal institutions as well.

Telecommunication companies (Telcos) do not store data of SMS, MMS and video conferencing, to safeguard privacy of customers, the Dewan Rakyat heard today.

Australia's competition watchdog accuses MAS of allegedly colluding to fix the price of a fuel surcharge and a security surcharge applied to air cargo.

It's been four months, the Home Ministry has yet to release the book on the tenure of former premier Mahathir Mohamad.

Two brothers and their friend charged with torching the Metro Tabernacle Church AG will go on trial in the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court on July 6 and 7.

"The ministry feels it will be better for security firms to employ Rela members since they are trained, disciplined and able to handle weapons."

Ten sets of nomination forms for Hulu Selangor by-election on April 25 have been sold, Selangor EC director Dzulkifli Ab Rahman said.

The young actor, who has been remanded for an alleged drug offence, is in good health, says a commissioner.

The Orang Asli community is growing weary of outsiders and will most likely only trust their own people. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Here's a simple way to decide whether one is Malaysian.

PARLIAMENT UPDATED 5.25PM He escapes being referred to the powerful rights and privileges committee for verbal abuse of fellow-MP M Kulasegaran.

COMMENT By using certain principles, it can be understood why so many different interpretations of religion exist.

UPDATED 3.35PM Members of the cabinet-established interfaith committee refuses to meet today.

Zaid Ibrahim's likely opponent, meanwhile, has served Hulu Selangor for 17 years.

MACC has expressed hope that Dr Pornthip Rojanasunand will testify as scheduled during the Teoh Beng Hock inquest.

Bukit Koman villagers want answers from Ng Yen Yen on the use of cyanide in gold-mining operations near their village in Raub.

The newspapers focused on Najib's historic meeting with US President Barack Obama and that Thailand's ruling party is facing dissolution.

UPDATED 1.48PM PKR will field former law minister Zaid Ibrahim in the Hulu Selangor by-election, setting the stage for a 'clash of the titans' with BN's G Palanivel. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Checks have begun into a claim that a religious leader told followers to consume his saliva during a lecture in a mosque in Selangor.

COMMENT The DPM’s straddle on the interfaith panel is far less convincing than the one on his Malay identity not overshadowing his Malaysian one.

Najib agreed in talks with Obama that the global community should send a 'clear signal' to Iran over its controversial nuclear programme.

free 'Pornthip is being blackmailed. If she comes to testify in Malaysia, her work in southern Thailand is threatened. It is not...'

free 'What the DPM is now saying is contrary to the government stand.'

Obama called the 47-nation summit in Washington, the biggest hosted by a US leader since 1945, to try to secure loose materials in military and civilian stockpiles worldwide within four years.

The stand-off between Red Shirt protesters and the government continued on the bloodstained streets of Bangkok Tuesday, as Thailand's foreign minister offered an olive branch for change.

The pilots of a plane that crashed and killed Poland's president had received explicit weather warnings before they attempted to land at a fog-bound Russian airport, investigators said Monday.