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KUALA LUMPUR, 18 Sept 2008: The Transport Ministry wants the multiple enforcement agencies under the various ministries to work with greater synergy to improve public transportation services, said Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat. "This area (enforcement) we need to synergise more. Currently we still lack a single line of command in enforcement. "We […]

PENANG, 18 Sept 2008: The Bukit Bendera Umno division will file an appeal to the Umno Supreme Council (MT) to retract the decision to suspend the former division head, Datuk Ahmad Ismail, from all party posts for three years. Division secretary Ismadi Abu Bakar said although technically Ahmad was no longer the Bukit Bendera Umno […]

PUTRAJAYA, 18 Sept 2008: The Home Ministry is monitoring the situation and keeping tabs on opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim before taking any action, says Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar. He said it was important to safeguard the country’s peace and security. He also urged members of the public not to speculate on […]

KOTA BARU, 18 Sept 2008: The Magistrate’s Court here ordered blogger Syed Azidi Syed Aziz, or better known as Sheih “Kickdefella” to be remanded for two days beginning today. Magistrate Tengku Amalin A’Ishah Putri Sultan Ismail Petra issued the order to enable police to investigate the 38-year-old under the Sedition Act. Syed Azidi’s wife Bariah […]

KUALA LUMPUR, 18 Sept 2008: Twenty-seven people were fined RM1,000 in default three weeks jail each by the Sessions Court here today after they pleaded guilty to failing to disperse during an illegal assembly organised by the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) in the city centre last year. They committed the offence near the MIDF […]

Syed Hamid said the Act is still in the drafting stage PUTRAJAYA, 18 Sept 2008: The Race Relations Act that the Home Affairs and the Unity, Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministries will be drafting will be guided by the Federal Constitution which states that all persons are equal before the law. Minister of Home Affairs […]

KOTA BARU, 17 Sept 2008: Police today arrested blogger Syed Azidi Syed Aziz or better known as Sheih "Kickdefella". Syed Azidi’s wife Bariah Ishak said her husband was picked up from their house in Demit, here at 5.05pm. She said three plaincloth policemen came in a dark-tinted white Pajero and told her that they were […]

REMBAU, 17 Sept 2008: Member of Parliament for Rembau Khairy Jamaludin today offered himself to contest for the post of Umno Youth chief. The deputy chief of the movement told reporters at the Rembau Community Service Centre that he had received feedback from the grassroots who wanted him to vie for the top seat in […]

KOTA KINABALU, 17 Sept 2008: Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) today pulled out of the Barisan Nasional (BN) ruling coalition to become an independent party. In announcing this after chairing the party’s supreme council meeting at its headquarters this afternoon, its president Datuk Yong Teck Lee said SAPP would be an opposition party but would not […]

PUTRAJAYA, 17 Sept 2008: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said today that Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has now become a threat to the economy and national security. The Prime Minister said Anwar’s actions had not only affected political stability but also economic stability. "As a result of his actions, certain fund managers had […]