KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 – Lawyer Edmund Bon is the latest to be investigated under the Sedition Act for saying that non-Muslims are not subjected to fatwas or the Shariah court. Bon broke the news by tweeting from his handle @edmundbon that his firm Bon Advocates received a call from a police
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 – Putrajaya is still mulling whether to keep the Sedition Act or replace it altogether, saying it has yet to draft any new law despite the Prime Minister’s promise two years ago, and again last week, to repeal the colonial-era law. The Prime Minister’s Office said
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 – Malaysians on social media have taken Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad to task over his labelling of Malays as “lazy” yesterday. They have also highlighted the double-standards in the use of the Sedition Act, with some questioning if the former prime minister would be charged for criticising
GEORGETOWN, Sept 14 – The Chinese community believes that Twa Peh Kong blessed the people with health and prosperity, and the Twa Peh Kong temples are places of worship commonly found in urban and rural areas in Malaysia. However, not all Twa Peh Kong temples at various places in Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 – DAP parliamentary leader Lim Kit Siang has lauded Minister in the Prime Minister’s Datuk Seri Idris Jala for speaking out against the sedition charge against a University Malaya law lecturer, and asked if others in the Cabinet were bold enough to speak out against Putrajaya’s current
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 – Four more Malaysian victims of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH17 have been positively identified by forensic specialists in the Dutch city of Hilversum, Datuk Seri Liow Tiong Lai said today. The Transport Minister said that Dutch authorities have so far given the approval for two of
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 – Four teachers have been arrested by police in connection with the leakage of UPSR examination papers which has affected more than 470,000 students. City Criminal Investigation Department chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Gan Kong Meng confirmed the arrests of the four, aged between 30 and 54. The
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 – The Home Ministry is vetting through the membership list of Penang’s Volunteer Patrol Unit (PPS), which has been pronounced illegal by the Inspector-General of Police, to identify those who can still operate for community policing bodies recognised by the Federal government. Home Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 – Police are scrutinising the Malaysian Examination Board’s standard operating procedure (SOP) in their investigations into the “leaks” in this year’s primary school Year Six examination (UPSR). The leaks concerned the English subject, Papers 1 and 2, and Science, Papers 018, 028 and 038. Kuala Lumpur
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 – Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will be chairing a special meeting tommorrow to scrutinise the Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) used for preparing the papers of the UPSR examination. Muhyiddin, who is also Education Minister, said the meeting, which would be held in Putrajaya, would
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 – Umno, which is the backbone of the government, needs new thinking and courage to act firmly in order to remain relevant in this information commmunication technology (ICT) era, said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. The Umno deputy president said party members must be in
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 14 – Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad defended his criticism of Malays, admitting that he was ashamed that they had been left behind by the forward-thinking Chinese community. Malaysia’s longest-serving prime minister said the Malays were still lazy, citing the gender imbalance at institutions of higher learning where
GEORGETOWN, Sept 14 – Opening speech by Lim Guan Eng, the Chief Minister of Penang and Chairman of Penang Green Council during the launching of XOX Penang International Green Carnival 2014 at Esplanade on 14 Sep 2014: A very good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to welcome
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 – Police have interviewed three people and recorded their statements in connection with the leak of UPSR or Year 6 examination papers. City Criminal Investigation Department chief Senior Assistant Commissioner Gan Kong Meng said no arrests had been made yet although police reports have been lodged.
THAILAND, Sept 12 – Thailand’s coup leader and premier Prayut Chan-O-Cha will visit Myanmar on his first official overseas trip, an official said Friday, as the junta seeks to strengthen ties with its former military-ruled neighbour. Prayut will travel to Myanmar “as soon as possible”, deputy foreign minister Don Pramudwinai
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 – Following the leakage of Science and English papers in the UPSR examination, DAP today expressed fears that the Pentaksiran Tingkatan 3 (PT3) assessment might suffer the same fate as papers for the national exam are downloaded in schools. DAP Serdang lawmaker Dr Ong Kian Ming
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 – Police and the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission have identified several individuals responsible for the leak of the UPSR examination papers. Education Minister II Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh told a press conference today that both police and MCMC had identified several “hot spots” where the
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 – The High Court has given the Inspector-General of Police seven days to locate Prasana Diksa and return the girl to her mother, M. Indira Gandhi, who is embroiled in a custody battle with her ex-husband. Judge Lee Swee Seng, who allowed Indira’s mandamus application, said
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 – The goods and services tax (GST) system must be executed transparently and efficiently, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said in denying the prime minister’s claim that he had agreed to impose the GST while he was finance minister more than two decades ago. The opposition leader
