KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 – Shares in Selangor’s new water company will be offered to residents, said its outgoing Menteri Besar today, in response to concerns that the master agreement he signed to restructure the water industry compromised the public’s interest. Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim, who was criticised for signing
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 – The current sedition blitz by Putrajaya hung over a forum on Malaysia’s future with the organisers asking for no media coverage today. Global Movement of Moderates (GMM) chief executive officer Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah said the current climate in the country was unfortunate, leaving many people in
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 – PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu said a group which left during his officiating speech at the Youth wing’s assembly today could have just been going to perform their prayers. He said there was nothing untoward about the group’s actions nor did it indicate a lack of
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 – Barisan Nasional (BN) is determined to increase its majority of votes in seven polling districts in Pengkalan Kubor in the state by-election on September 25, according to the BN by-election director Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed. He said the Umno Youth, Wanita and Puteri wings have been
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 – Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has told a Malay non-governmental organisation of his fear that Barisan Nasional (BN) will lose in the next general election if Datuk Seri Najib Razak continues as prime minister. Mohd Ridzuan Abdullah, the president of Ikhlas, an NGO representing Malay traders and
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 — Even as the government is flexing its muscle against individuals who dare question the status quo, Datuk Saifuddin Abdullah assured Malaysians today that no issue is “too sensitive” to be discussed. Speaking to reporters after the first “Masa Depan Malaysia” (Malaysia’s future) round of discussion
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 – Malaysian Airline System Bhd (MAS) has renewed the contract of its managing director and chief executive officer, Ahmad Jauhari Yahya (pic). In a filing with Bursa Malaysia this evening, MAS said Ahmad Jauhari’s contract would be extended for one year, with effect from September 20, 2014
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 18 – Petronas together with Deftech and Phoenix International consortium will deploy a GO Phoenix Mother Vessel and the Pro Synthetic Aperture Sonar, or ProSAS, which will be towed to join the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said the
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 – Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today called the leaks of the UPSR examination papers “shameful”, saying that the incident is not acceptable, as education in Malaysia has been recognised as one of the best in the world. “It is an embarrassing incident. It still happened even after
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 – “Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah will see what happens during the muktamar before deciding which assemblyman in Selangor enjoys the support of the legislative body. “I have been informed that the Sultan will only make a final decision on the Selangor menteri besar after the muktamar,” a
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 – The remains of two children of couple Ariza Ghazalee and Tambi Jiee who were killed in the MH17 crash in July, will be accompanied by seven of the teenagers’ cousins from Kuala Lumpur back to Kuching on September 18. This was revealed by Ariza’s elder sister,
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 – Malaysia needs to do more to have a system of federalism which entails the division of power between the federal government and states instead of a unitary system where power is centralised, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said today. The opposition leader said there was a common
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 15 – Police have obtained a four-day remand order against four men, including a Penang primary school headmaster, who are being probed under the Official Secrets Act in connection with the leak of the UPSR examination papers. The other suspects are two teachers from Penang and an insurance
PHILIPPINES, Sept 14 – A strong typhoon slammed into the rice-producing Philippine northern region today, cutting power and communications lines and forcing people to flee to higher ground, national disaster agency officials said. Packing central winds of 130 kmh and gusts of up to 160 kmh, Typhoon Kalmaegi made landfall
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 17 – The top chief of PAS’S wing of scholars wants Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim to remain as Selangor Menteri Besar as the latter is innocent of the charges levelled against him. Datuk Ahmad Yaakub, who is acting chief of PAS’s Dewan Ulama, also gave two other
UNITED STATES, Sept 13 – President Barack Obama said yesterday the goal of an international coalition he is helping to form is to “ultimately snuff out” the type of extremism demonstrated by Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. It is a “sobering time,” said Obama at a Democratic fund-raising event
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin told parents unhappy with the UPSR examination paper leaks that he, too, was disappointed with the situation, as his 12-year-old granddaughter was expected to resit the examination. “My own granddaughter is taking the UPSR. She is the first grandchild, the eldest,
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has shown that he lacks the will to stand up to extremists by failing to fulfil his promise to repeal the Sedition Act 1948, DAP said today. Party secretary-general Lim Guan Eng said Najib’s promise to repeal the colonial-era
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – For the last five years since her brother’s death, Teoh Lee Lan has worn little else but black in public. And she has been carrying her dead brother Teoh Beng Hock’s memory with her, literally, wherever she goes. Dressed in her usual attire of a
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – Airlines would have avoided flying over Ukraine long before Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down if information about missiles in the area had been passed on, the boss of Emirates has suggested in a BBC report. Sir Tim Clark told the BBC there had
