KUALA LUMPUR, 25 June 2009: The government did not extradite Singapore Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) militant leader Mas Selamat Kastari to the island state due to “security reason”, Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said today. He said Mas Selamat, who was captured in Johor in April this year after escaping from a high security prison […]
Archives for June 2009
11 new H1N1 cases detected
PUTRAJAYA, 25 June 2009: Eleven Influenza A(H1N1) cases were detected from yesterday until 8am today, comprising eight imported cases and three local transmissions, Health Minister Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said. He said of the eight imported cases, five were Malaysians while the rest were Irish, Australian and Philippine citizens. Of the three local transmissions, […]
Lim denies DAP membership condition for aid
PENANG, 25 June 2009: Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has denied allegations that elderly folk in the state were asked to fill aid forms with the condition that they were DAP members. Lim Lim, who is also the party’s secretary-general, said his party had never laid down that condition, and that the forms also […]
Kelantan Umno Youth lodges report against Nik Aziz
KOTA BARU, 25 June 2009: Kelantan Umno Youth has lodged a police report against PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat for likening Umno to a deviationist teaching and communism. State Umno Youth chief Anuar Safian said the remarks uttered by Nik Aziz on Sunday,14 June were seditious and could lead to tension […]
Soi Lek: More maids run away than are abused
By Gan Pei LingPETALING JAYA, 25 June 2009: MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek has described the government’s decision to give domestic workers a mandatory weekly off-day as a “knee-jerk reaction”. He said Malaysians should not “overreact” to cases of abused domestic workers, claiming that there were only around 50 reported cases of abused domestic […]
Kit Siang wants Tee Keat referred to privileges committee
By Zedeck SiewKUALA LUMPUR, 25 June 2009: DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang has submitted a motion to refer Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat to Parliament’s Privileges Committee. “This is for misleading Parliament in his eight-minute ministerial statement on the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal on 22 June (2009),” Lim said in a press conference […]
“PR needs to formalise its coalition”
By Shanon ShahPETALING JAYA, 25 June 2009: Pakatan Rakyat needs to, among others, form a shadow cabinet in order for Malaysia to start having a two-party system, a political scientist said. Monash University Sunway Campus’s Prof Dr James Chin said Pakatan Rakyat (PR) had to first formalise itself as a coalition before talk about Malaysia having a […]
Supporting shorties online
By Cindy ThamThe 2008 winner, Nazim Mohammed Esa (Pic courtesy of BMW Shorties) AS the BMW Shorties enters its third season, it is throttling up its use of the internet to promote the annual short film competition aimed at nurturing young filmmakers in Malaysia. One telling sign is the range of social media tools on the BMW […]
Learning to be Malaysian
By Deborah LohKARIM Raslan‘s father was Raslan Abdullah, who founded Bank Bumiputra Malaysia Bhd in the 1960s. Karim describes his father as a “typical product” of the New Economic Policy. The late Raslan, who died in a car crash when Karim was seven, was close friends with then Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak and other Umno elites. […]
MACC conducted three investigations into Ali Rustam
By Zedeck SiewKUALA LUMPUR, 24 June 2009: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) conducted three investigations into Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam’s alleged involvement in money politics. “The MACC conducted two investigations into certain parties that were allegedly involved in the giving of bribes for the purpose of nominating Ali Rustam as Umno deputy president,” said Minister in the Prime […]
