Archive - 29 June 2013

This is to avoid threatening the health of students and teachers as an API of 200 indicated that the air level was already unhealthy.

Tourism Ministry is planning to acquire part of the 84-year-old Chinese primary school for a Kota Warisan building and a restaurant.

Break ranks with the BN and to vote against a move to amend the Islamic law on conversion of minors, MCA's Loh Seng Kok tells party MPs.

The explanation in Parliament that no chemicals were used in the ink proves the EC has misled the public, says DAP sec-gen Lim Guan Eng.

The announcement was made by Sabah Chief Minister Musa Aman, who is also Esscom chairperson, at a special appreciation parade.

Jonker Walk vendors lament the impending demise of the popular tourist spot, saying politicians are losing sight of the bigger picture.

JOAS' Jannie Lasimbang says the number of dubious IC holders in Beaufort, Tawau, Kota Marudu and Batu Sapi exceed the majority won by BN.

Its national treasurer Jaspal Singh says BN parties were not consulted on the bill and want it withdrawn until further discussion.

The PPP is putting off its 60th general assembly to hold it together with the elections for party office bearers scheduled before June 2 next year.

It is a non-issue because the Sarawak CM has denied making this statement, says senior MACC investigations officer Lim Bee Kean.

The haze that enveloped the country recently has eased off except for 12 areas including Bukit Rambai in Malacca.

EC should do away with an even number of state seats in eight states to avoid a hung state assembly, says DAP chairperson Karpal Singh.

UPDATED 5.05PM Lim Kit Siang asks if Idris Haron is doing a 'Rahim Thamby Chik on Bukit Cina' that earned the ex-CM brownie points.

UPDATED 7.35PM UK election laws are so strict that there has been no recent case of bribery committed, lawyer Azhar Azizan Harun tells Bar seminar.

UPDATED 2.55PM MACC cites numerous documents and many parties involved when asked why its probe is taking so long.

MP SPEAKS Nazri Aziz is right about it being ‘Jonker Walk', not ‘Jonker Drive'. You can't have a ‘walk' and a ‘drive' without somebody getting hurt.

Its veep Gan Ping Sieu says the stealth in tabling the bill is 'shocking' and that the amendment impinges on non-Muslim rights.

COMMENT 23 people have died in police custody since EAIC existed. All its commissioners must bear responsibility for not stepping in to address this issue.

The Catholic prelate argues that, if passed, the FT Islamic Administration Bill represents a rubicon on Islamisation.

A group of its members claim that their Nute union had failed to push TM's management to implement the retirement age of 60.

FREE YOURSAY ‘What happened to the cabinet's ruling that children should remain in their original faith of their parents until they reach 18...?'

FREE YOURSAY ‘The Malacca CM must be very confident that the state can do without the tourist dollar, local as well as foreign.'

FREE YOURSAY ‘Here we are calling on the home minister and IGP to resign for their transgression. Look no further as Najib...'

UPDATED 2.55PM Do not let any party misconstrue the laws for the interests of certain groups, he says when opening the 13th Selangor state assembly. [VIDEO]