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
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 16 – Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin (pic) today reminded Malaysians to preserve the nation’s unity. He said the people should take pride in that the unification of the states of the peninsula with Sabah and Sarawak had created a unique, harmonious and fast-developing Malaysia. “Every
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – China’s industrial production growth slowed sharply to 6.9% in August, its lowest level for more than five years, official data for the world’s second-largest economy showed today. The figure, which measures output at factories, workshops and mines, marked an abrupt slowdown from the 9% year-on-year
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – A veteran PAS leader in Penang has told members who disagree with the ulama faction to leave the Islamist party, which is in the midst of an internal crisis. Former state PAS leader Mohamed Nordin Mohd Nor, speaking for a group of unhappy party members supporting
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 12 – The Selangor Palace is clearly peeved by what they see as insolent and defiant conduct by two of the Pakatan Rakyat coalition parties – for refusing to supply more names for the Sultan’s consideration for the post of Menteri Besar (MB). To many, the obdurate
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – PAS is exploring the possibility of retaining Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim as Selangor menteri besar (MB) as a means of resolving the impasse in the state. Selangor deputy speaker Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad said PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang raised this possibility
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – Putrajaya has lost the moral ground and the right to call Malaysia a democratic country, after the sedition probe against lawyer Edmund Bon, said Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan. “What democracy is Putrajaya preaching and talking about if lawyers cannot even give their opinion?” she said when
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – A Royal Commission of Inquiry should be established to investigate the recent leakage of UPSR examination papers, which affected almost 500,000 students, said veteran DAP leader Lim Kit Siang. Lim said it was time a full-scale investigation be conducted into the frequent leaks involving national
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 13 – The remains of several more Malaysian victims of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) flight MH17 have been identified after undergoing an identification process in Amsterdam, said Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein (pic). “After being verified by the Dutch, the remains will be repatriated. In Amsterdam, the
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
