31 Jan 2012 - 5:56pm
GEORGETOWN: The Election Commission (EC) is to drop 42,025 doubtful names from the electoral rolls after verifying only 26 active voters during a two-month display of 42,051 names which ended today. EC chairman Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof said only 50 people or next-of-kin came forward during the period to verify the status of as many...
31 Jan 2012 - 5:04pm
KUALA LUMPUR: While criticisms on Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's support for "all efforts to protect the security of Israel" continue to mount, the Perdana Global Peace Foundation put in perspective that it was such efforts that had led to the genocide of Palestinians....
31 Jan 2012 - 1:35pm
KUALA LUMPUR: Prominent blogger Datuk Ahirudin Attan and Datuk Seri Kalimullah Hassan ended a five-year high-profile court battle today, three weeks after the latter, who was a close associate of Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, proferred an "unreserved apology" to Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Ahirudin, who runs the popular Rocky's Bru, one of...
30 Jan 2012 - 4:15pm
KUALA LUMPUR: Deputy minister of Women, Family and Community Development Datuk Heng Seai Kie challenged Pas leader Azman Shapawi Abdul Rani to prove his claim on the existence of a “prostitutes and transvestites association” in Kuala Lumpur that received annual funding from the ministry.
“I challenge them to give us the proof. Failure...
30 Jan 2012 - 4:10pm
KUALA LUMPUR: Academic Dr Abdul Aziz Bari said two Pas leaders - Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak and Datuk Mustafa Ali - were uttering nonsense when they censured him for urging Pakatan Rakyat to punish Azizan. The first to receive the thick end of the professor’s tongue was Azizan, who is Kedah Mentri Besar and Pas Kedah commissioner, for...
30 Jan 2012 - 12:18pm
Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad on news that an American soldier had received a light sentence after agreeing to a plea deal on charges of killing 24 civilians in Iraq: US law allows for plea bargaining between the prosecutors and the accused person. Through this the soldier agreed that he would plead guilty if the...
30 Jan 2012 - 11:25am
KUALA LUMPUR: Anwar Ibrahim lied. That is the verdict of veteran journalist and blogger Jailani Harun, who took aim at Anwar's attempt to clarify controversial remarks he had made in a recent Wall Street Journal interview.
In the WSJ interview, Anwar was quoted as saying, "I support all efforts to protect the security of the state of Israel...
28 Jan 2012 - 1:41pm
KUALA LUMPUR: Pas secretary-general Datuk Mustafa Ali has censured former International Islamic University Malaysia lecturer Prof Dr Abdul Aziz Bari for demanding disciplinary action against Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak. Abdul Aziz had also stated that Azizan should leave Pas and join Barisan Nasional for his...
27 Jan 2012 - 8:33pm
Kuala Lumpur: Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has come under fire from several bloggers for his 'protecting the security of Israel' comments in an interview with the Wall Street Journal.
Anwar, who was recently acquitted by the Kuala Lumpur High Court from a charge of sodomising his personal assistant had reportedly said in...
27 Jan 2012 - 9:11am
KUALA LUMPUR: Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) de facto leader P.Uthayakumar has come out with blazing guns against Pakatan Rakyat for taking advantage of Hindraf's cause without any genuine interest to solve the problem of poor Indians in the country....
