Archive - 23 April 2010

UPDATED 12.20am The highly revered religious figure gives PKR's Zaid Ibrahim the 'all clear' but slams Umno for stooping to personal attacks.

Pakatan and BN are slugging it out in a final push to win the hearts of the settlers there who hold the key to their victory - or defeat. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Perak PKR has incriminating evidence of cash-for-condemnation and defection offers.

The PM's doctored photo appeared on his blog three years ago but police now want to finish investigations by month's end.

PAS has today demanded those behind the satirical US cartoon show 'South Park' apologise to Muslims worldwide over its portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed.

In Malaysia, fame is a weapon that divides the country.

It found the arrest of five lawyers outside the Brickfields police station to be in violation of human rights and held two top police officers responsible.

YBK and two others today filed a defamation suit against Khalid Ibrahim and the exco over statements they made last February.

In the seemingly no holds barred hustings, the memory of the late political aide is being invoked in the attempt to garner votes.

He wants the PM to reveal the contents of his late night chats with two MPs formerly from PKR in Washington.

UPDATED 6:57PM A newly-released survey suggests that slightly over a third of Malay voters believe BN will win in Hulu Selangor.

BN's P Kamalanathan and PKR's Zaid Ibrahim are wasting no time and taking no chances in attracting the voters, with both upping the ante.

She is said to have forwarded a complaint on a talkshow which was rocked by the resignation of its producer.

The BN skeletons are skipping out of the closet as Khalid reveals how Felda settlers have lost out.

Malaysia said it has arrested and deported several leaders of the Sri Lankan separatist Tamil Tiger rebels over the past few months to prevent them setting up a hub in the country.

‘We are now projecting a much higher forecast of 8.0 percent this year, the strongest since 1996,’ says AmResearch.

With analysts predicting a photo finish for Hulu Selangor, BN and Pakatan leaders are leaving nothing to chance.

free 'Those working in ntv7 will tell you that the management has become very draconian since PM's ascension to office.'

The Selangor government under the PKR, PAS and DAP leadership has failed to deliver on a number of promises made in the last two years, MCA president Dr Chua Soi Lek said today.

Some High Chapparal villagers have turned distant campaigners for the BN candidate with barbed accusations aimed at the Pakatan.

Rais Yatim is confident that Felda settlers will vote for the BN candidate during the by-election.

UPDATED 1.40pm DAP advisor Lim Kit Siang today declared that an internal survey showed PKR’s Zaid Ibrahim is trailing.

Thai riot police faced down thousands of anti-government protesters Friday after grenade attacks left one woman dead and scores wounded in the latest bloodshed of the escalating political crisis.

Aussie MP Michael Danby dismisses Rembau MP's gay and pro-Israel jibes as ‘schoolyard’ tactics.

UPDATED 5.43PM The court acquitted the duo on corruption charges without their defence being called.

By election campaigns and Maika Holdings buy back offer are among the assorted news headlined today.

Selangor exco Xavier Jayakumar has accused P Kamalanathan of being a 'phantom voter' in the Sungai Siput constituency.

Palanivel is working around the clock for the party’s cause in Hulu Selangor.

Dirty politics is the order of the day in Malaysia, and to secure a win, the rakyat will always be taken for a ride by these unscrupulous politicians.

Britain's election race tightened after the second party leaders' TV debate failed to produce a runaway winner, increasing the chances of a hung parliament.

UPDATED 1.10PM He has filed his appeal over the Syariah High Court’s dismissal of his qazaf (bearing false witness) application. [VIDEO INSIDE]

Going into the last lap, Anwar takes the fight to BN, with verbal jabs left and right.

US Vice President Joe Biden has said that China will sign on to new UN sanctions on Iran, and predicted new measures to punish Tehran's nuclear program could be agreed by the end of this month.

Surau and mosques are still being used by Pakatan Rakyat to woo support from the Malays voters in Hulu Selangor.

free What’s happening in Hulu Selangor today? Quotable quotes, planned events and unplanned incidents as they occur in P94.

He tells Hulu S'gor voters that only BN can assure them a better life. [VIDEO INSIDE]

free 'Kamalanathan seems quite satisfied to talk about providing food, clothing and shelter. An NGO can do that job there more effectively...'

COMMENT BN uses its brute majority in Parliament to railroad a motion that teemed with insolence.

free 'The Great Debate is nothing but a farce, further signifying the sheer lack of ingenuity the current regime has.'