KUALA LUMPUR, 29 April 2009: A mild tremor measuring 2.6 on the Richter scale was detected in Manjung, Perak at 9.35am today. A Meteorological Department statement said its epicentre was 11km north of Pulau Pangkor. Slight tremors were felt around the Manjung district but the department said there was no need for the public to […]
Archives for April 2009
Umno political bureau meeting postponed
KUALA LUMPUR, 30 April 2009: The Umno political bureau meeting, scheduled for today, has been postponed to Monday. Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor confirmed the postponement when contacted by Bernama today. The meeting will be chaired by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who is also Umno president, and attended by his […]
Sunny skies till September
KUALA LUMPUR, 30 April 2009: You will be glad April will be over soon as sunny skies are forecast from May till September. The Meteorological Department here said April was a torrid month as it was the inter-monsoon period coupled with the sun being overhead the Equator. The highest temperature recorded between 1 and 28 […]
Pakatan Rakyat courts Chua Soi Lek
By Deborah LohPETALING JAYA, 30 April 2009: MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has publicly admitted for the first time that he is being courted by Pakatan Rakyat parties. He has been turning the idea of defecting over and over in his mind ever since it was proposed following the sex video scandal that […]
Fairus contradictions
By Zedeck Siew“Of course we are busy, but we have to spend time to meet the electorate because they will understand if we are busy, but they cannot accept it if we don’t get down on the ground.” PARTI Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, reprimanding then Penang Deputy Chief Minister (DCM)1 and Penanti assemblyperson […]
Haram-ing of spaces
By Zedeck SiewTHE celebrated theatre practitioner Anne James is a perennial learner. “I can be a student forever,” she says. In 1983, after a long tussle with the Ministry of Education to secure leave (James was a schoolteacher), she went to Northwestern University to work on a Masters in Performing Arts for three years. James remembers that […]
Short and sweet
By Cindy ThamFor sale: baby shoes, never worn. Ernest Hemingway ONE short story. Six words. (Pic by asifthebes / sxc.hu)Writer Ernest Hemingway once bet US$10 that he could write a complete story in just six words. He won the bet, with the terse but morose tale of a pair of baby shoes. […]
Cabinet’s conversion decision opposed (Updated 12.35am)
By Shanon Shah(Updated 30 April 2009, 12.35am) KUALA LUMPUR, 29 April 2009: The coalition of Muslim non-governmental organisations known as Pembela has described the cabinet decision against unilateral conversion of minors as “knee-jerk” and “lacking in sense”. “The decision only temporarily alleviates the anxieties of one party, but creates more anxieties and questions for other parties,” Pembela […]
Motion to remove Perak speaker received
IPOH, 29 April 2009: The Perak legislative assembly secretary, Abdullah Antong Sabri, today confirmed that his office had received a motion last week to remove V Sivakumar as speaker of the Perak state assembly at its sitting on 7 May. He also confirmed that he had posted letters to all the Perak state assemblypersons on […]
Limited time for Suhakam to avert downgrading
NEW DELHI, 29 April 2009: The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) is racing against time to prevent the organisation from being downgraded by an international human rights regulatory body on 3 May. Suhakam chairperson Tan Sri Abu Talib Othman said, the Accreditation Sub-Committee of the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion […]
