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PPP expels former president SI Rajah

December 11, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, 11 Dec 2008: The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) today expelled former party president SI Rajah for making a statement calling on Datuk M Kayveas to step down as PPP president. The PPP Disciplinary Board, which met today, took the decision to expel the veteran as he had no right to issue the statement […]

PPP will not leave BN

December 10, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 Dec 2008: People’s Progressive Party (PPP) advisor S I Rajah said today the party would not leave the Barisan Nasional (BN). “I met the BN chairperson and the secretary-general at the Parliament House today, and gave them an assurance that PPP would not leave the BN coalition,” he said in a statement. […]

Two JI members among six ISA detainees freed

December 10, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 Dec 2008: Six Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees, including two Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) members, have been released from detention, Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said. He said that the six were freed as they no longer posed security threats to the country. Five of them — comprising two Thai nationals […]

Why Malaysia needs the ISA

By Wong Chin Huat

December 10, 2008

Corrected on 10 Dec 2008 at 10.00am Police negotiating with protester wearing “Mansuhkan ISA” headband outside Masjid Negara, 13 Sept 2008 (pic by Lainie Yeoh) NO, your eyes do not fool you. Nor have I been visited by Special Branch officers and “turned over”. I was at the Petaling Jaya Civic Centre car park Sunday […]

Govt won’t amend or repeal ISA: Syed Hamid

December 2, 2008

PUTRAJAYA, 2 Dec 2008: The Internal Security Act (ISA) will not be amended or repealed despite threats by certain quarters, Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said today. He said the legislation was being used with prudence and fairly and it was not misused. ISA would only be used when there was a need […]

MCA supports PPP on amending ISA

By Deborah Loh

December 1, 2008

KUALA LUMPUR, 1 DEC 2008: MCA has picked up on the People’s Progressive Party (PPP)’s call to amend the Internal Security Act (ISA), saying that it was part of reforms the Barisan Nasional (BN) should undertake. MCA central committee member Wong Nai Chee said amending the ISA was critical to ensure people’s confidence in the […]

Police unbiased in arrests of protestors: Syed Hamid

November 26, 2008

PUTRAJAYA, 26 Nov 2008: Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar came to the defence of the police today, saying they were unbiased with regard to two public gatherings in Kuala Lumpur 23 Nov. Syed Hamid said the police were impartial when they detained several supporters of an anti-ISA campaign in Ampang Jaya, Ampang, while […]

Detained anti-ISA demo participants released

November 24, 2008

PETALING JAYA, 24 Nov 2008: Nine people including several political leaders who were detained by police yesterday for participating in an illegal assembly to protest against the Internal Security Act (ISA) at Dataran Ampang Jaya in Pandan Indah, Ampang, have been released on police bail.  Selangor police chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said all of […]

BN’s power play

By Ng Boon Hooi

November 20, 2008

IN George Orwell’s novel Animal Farm, there’s a line about how all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. The same could be said about the component parties in the Barisan Nasional (BN). The BN is made up of 13 disparate parties — five based in the peninsula, and the rest […]

“Utusan will become very irrelevant”

By Zedeck Siew

November 19, 2008

JOURNALIST Said Zahari was a seminal force in Utusan Melayu during its heyday as an independent publication. He led the paper’s 1961 strike in protest of a takeover bid by Umno, which resulted in him being banned from entering Malaysia. The ban was only lifted in the 1980s. A consummate man of letters, Said has […]

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