SINGAPORE, 27 Nov 2008: The Singapore High Court today sentenced three Singaporeans to seven to 15 days’ jail for wearing T-shirts bearing a picture of a kangaroo in a judge’s robes in the vicinity of the New Supreme Court Building last May. Muhammad Shafi’ie Syahmi Sariman and Isrizal Mohamed Isa were jailed for seven days […]
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Farish Noor’s book under investigation
By Zedeck SiewBook cover of From Majapahit to Putrajaya PETALING JAYA, 27 Nov 2008: A leading bookstore in Kuala Lumpur has stopped selling a book by Malaysian public intellectual Dr Farish Noor, pending an investigation by the Home Ministry. The entire stock of the book, From Majapahit to Putrajaya, was confiscated from Kinokuniya’s KLCC outlet on 15 […]
Give priority to retaining local workers
KUALA LUMPUR, 27 Nov 2008: Employers must give priority to retain their local workers if their businesses undergo downsizing during an economic slowdown, said Human Resources Minister Datuk Dr S Subramaniam. He said the Employment Act 1955 also bound employers to choose locals over their foreign counterparts. “Retrenchment should only be the last resort. But […]
ACA report against Penang govt
PENANG, 27 Nov 2008: The Tanjong Division Gerakan Youth today lodged a report with the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) over what it claimed was the Penang government’s hasty approval of a high-rise project in the World Heritage Site buffer zone in George Town, without the knowledge of Unesco’s World Heritage Committee. The division youth wing’s head, […]
Nazri Aziz rejects call for Malay rulers’ immunity
By Deborah LohKUALA LUMPUR, 27 NOV 2008: The Regent of Negeri Sembilan’s call for the immunity of Malay Rulers to be reinstated should not be taken seriously as the royal’s father, the state’s Yang Di-Pertuan Besar, was embroiled in a lawsuit. The Regent, Tunku Naquiyuddin Tuanku Jaafar, thus has a conflict of interest, Minister in the Prime […]
Govt does not provide political asylum
KUALA LUMPUR, 27 Nov 2008: The government does not plan to change the current policy and provide political asylum, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Deputy Home Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung said Malaysia had never given political asylum to anyone as it was worried that it would be used as an excuse for foreigners […]
Homemaker guilty of hurting Nirmala Bonat
Updated at 6.25pm on 27 Nov 2008 KUALA LUMPUR, 27 Nov 2008: Homemaker Yim Pek Ha was today sentenced to 18 years’ jail after she was found guilty by the Sessions Court here of three counts of voluntarily causing grievous hurt to her Indonesian maid four years ago. Yim, 40, a former air stewardess, was […]
No total ban on sale of alcoholic drinks in Selangor
SHAH ALAM, 26 Nov 2008: Selangor will not take the drastic action of totally banning the sale of alcoholic drinks as its residents are multiracial and multi-religious, said Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim. However, he said, the state government had decided to intensify enforcement to ensure that alcoholic drinks were not sold to […]
Reinstate immunity of Malay Rulers: Tunku Naquiyuddin
KUALA LUMPUR, 26 Nov 2008: The immunity of the Malay rulers should be returned to them if the nation wants to see them play a more crucial and assertive role in this 21st Century, the Regent of Negeri Sembilan, Tunku Naquiyuddin Tuanku Jaafar, said today. He said that if the rulers were to exercise their […]
Monitoring system on worker retrenchment needed
KUALA LUMPUR, 26 Nov 2008: The MCA has urged the government to create a monitoring system on worker retrenchment to ensure that local workers are not the first to be terminated by the private sector during an economic downturn. Deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek said in the event of retrenchment by the […]
