JOHOR, Sept 21 – The Johor government will set new guidelines for buyers of affordable houses in the state to prevent them from selling their properties within a five-year period. Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Mohamed Khaled Nordin said the condition would be imposed to avoid buyers from making easy profit. “The
KUANTAN, Sept 25 – The Pahang Education Department today denied that the death of a UPSR candidate was due to stress following the leakageof examination papers. Its director, Rosdi Ismail said the death of Norsabrina Shahrulnizam, a standard six pupil of Sekolah Kebangsaan Wira on Tuesday was caused by diseases and has nothing
TUMPAT, Sept 25 – Barisan Nasional maintained its hold at the Pengkalan Kubor state constituency seat after winning the by-election with a 2,635 majority. BN candidate, Mat Mat Ail Razi defeated PAS’ candidate Rosdi Wan Wan Ibrahim and independent candidate, Ismail Bukhary Izat Bukhary. BN obtained 9,960 votes, followed by PAS with 7,335
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 – Malaysia Airlines faces the prospects of being sued for flying over war-torn Ukraine, which led to the downing of flight MH17, says an Australian news portal today.The Boeing 777-200, en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur crashed in Ukraine in pro-Russian rebel-held territory on July 17,
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 – There are no two ways about it. The Selangor menteri besar imbroglio has been dragging for a few months but political expediency does not mean naming a person just to end the impasse. Incumbent MB Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim now leads the caretaker government, a
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 – A few hundred people demonstrated in Shah Alam today to show support for the Selangor Sultan ahead of Tuesday’s expected swearing-in of the state’s new menteri besar, Malaysiakini reported. It said the group, which calls itself Gerak Daulat, gathered at Section 16 in Shah Alam wearing
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 – Reports have been lodged over purported leaks in the Tamil and Maths papers for the UPSR examinations, days after the authorities confirmed that the Science and English tests papers have been compromised. Some 500,000 students sat for the national primary six examinations. The English and Science
PENANG, Sept 21 – Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng wants Putrajaya to explain if it is going ahead with its highly-publicised affordable housing project in Penang through sovereign wealth fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) which has been reportedly saddled with debts of RM38 billion. Lim said the federal government must come
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 21 – Umno Youth remains optimistic that it would be able to persuade 1,000 young voters to return and vote in the Pengkalan Kubor by-election in Tumpat on Thursday. Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin said today they have identified about 1,000 of the about 5,000 young voters who
UNITED STATES, Sept 24 – U.S. President Barack Obama called for united action to confront violent extremism as he addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, after a second day of U.S. airstrikes in Syria. Airstrikes were carried out overnight Tuesday into Wednesday against five more targets: four in Iraq
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – If Putrajaya won’t repeal the Sedition Act now, it should at least amend it immediately to prevent the 1948 law from being abused for political interests, Prof Dr Abdul Aziz Bari said today. The constitutional law expert said although Putrajaya had promised to repeal the law
WELLINGTON, Sept 20 – Counting was underway Saturday in a cliffhanger New Zealand election with conservative Prime Minister John Key tipped for a narrow victory in a campaign dominated by allegations of dirty tricks and spying. Polling booths closed at 7pm (0700 GMT, 3pm MYT), 10 hours after 3.06 million registered voters began
GEORGETOWN, Sept 20 – Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng today said the Penang government’s surplus budget is not derived from sale of state land, as revenues from such sales are channelled to development of public and affordable housing. He said the state managed to record a total surplus of RM252.8 million
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – Malaysia needs the Sedition Act to ensure the safety of the Chinese and Indian communities, said a Malay rights group. Perkasa president Datuk Ibrahim Ali said it was untrue that the colonial-era law was enacted to protect the interests of the Malay community. “Actually, the Sedition
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – Malaysian women have it better than their Singaporean sisters when it comes to representation at the workplace, according to the Gender Diversity Benchmark for Asia 2014 (GDBA 2014). Malaysia ranked fourth among six Asian markets, GDBA 2014 said. The lead sponsor of the report is Bank
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said he could not just stand by and follow the conduct of its partners in Pakatan Rakyat during the Selangor Menteri Besar crisis. He said instead, the party had its own principles and beliefs that determined how it dealt
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu, who has been attacked by party members for supposedly leading a campaign against his party president, rebuffed such claims today by telling how he had campaigned for Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang in the general election. Mohamad, better known as Mat
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – PKR’s choice for the Selangor menteri besar has not changed and the party denied reports today that opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim had given the nod for deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali to assume the state’s top post. Referring to The Malaysian Insider report titled “Anwar nod for
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 20 – The police have recorded a statement from lawyer Edmund Bon who is being investigated for sedition for saying that non-Muslims are not subject to fatwas or the shariah court. His lawyer Amer Hamzah Arshad said Bon was questioned by police from the Kepala Batas district police
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 19 – Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 cabin crew Shaikh Mohd Noor Mahmood was supposed to be on flight MH370, which disappeared enroute to Beijing last March 8 and is still missing, but a twist of fate put him on a different flight on that unfateful day. What
