KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 7 – In the past few days, Malaysian social media users in favour of the Sedition Act have flooded Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s Facebook page, with requests that he not repeal the colonial-era law, which they say safeguards Islam, Malays and the royal institution. The posts
GEORGETOWN, Sept 6 – Media practitioners in Penang today urged the police to work with the press to uphold justice and to stop attempts by certain politicians to infringe on journalists and suppress the truth. They also called on the police to drop all charges against a Malaysiakini journalist who
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 – Penang got another warning about its unregistered Voluntary Patrol Unit (PPS) from Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi last night. “Ini Zahid Hamidi tahu? (This is Zahid Hamidi, you know?)” he said in his speech at the Bukit Bendera Umno division delegates’ conference
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 – PKR and DAP had asked PAS to approach Umno veteran Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, after both failed to convince him to join their parties, said Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang. “The first to meet Tengku Razaleigh was PKR. Not us, they invited him to join PKR,”
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 – Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi wants to meet the reporter whom he claimed had misreported his “arrogant” comment last week. Zahid said if the reporter from the English daily The Sun has the guts, the reporter would go see him and explain
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 – Global business magazine The Economist has questioned Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s credentials as a reformer in the wake of a blitz on opposition politicians, an academic and a journalist using the colonial era Sedition Act. Repealing the dreaded Internal Security Act and embracing
TANGKAK, Sept 5 — Umno members should not remain quiet when principles concerning the party’s struggles such as on the royal institution, special privileges of the Malays and the Islamic religion are being questioned by certain groups, said Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin. On the contrary, he said,
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 5 — Police should arrest the state government leaders including the Penang chief minister if they insist on continuing the crackdown on the volunteer patrol unit (PPS) here, Lim Guan Eng said today. Saying his administration will not succumb to what he described as “bullying tactics” that
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 – A group of Islamic university undergraduates staged a protest outside the Home Ministry in Putrajaya today and threatened to organise a street demonstration to protest the continued use of the Sedition Act 1948. Gabungan Mahasiswa Islam Se-Malaysia (Gamis) president Abdul Malik Abdul Razak said a
GEORGE TOWN, Sept 4 – The onus is not on state governments to identify land for the federal government’s low-cost housing projects as it is the responsibility of the federal government to do so, says Penang Country, Town Planning and Housing committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo. Jagdeep was responding to Urban Wellbeing,
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KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 5 – While the National Young Lawyers Committee (NYLC) of the Bar Council has embarked on a year-long movement to get the Sedition Act repealed, some have questioned whether such a campaign is effective. The NYLC last night launched its ‘Mansuh Akta Hasutan’ (Eradicate the Sedition Act) campaign,
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 – The Malaysian Press Photographers Association (MPPA) has called for action to be taken against the individual who assaulted a press photographer at the Nirvana Memorial Centre on Tuesday. Its president, Zainal Abdul Halim, said photographers were not “punching bags” but were duty bound to report every
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GEORGETOWN, Sept 4 – Malaysiakini journalist Susan Loone was arrested in Penang today over her article on an interview with state exco Phee Boon Poh and the mass arrests of the state’s Voluntary Patrol Unit (PPS) on Merdeka Day. George Town District police chief ACP Mior Faridalatrash Wahid confirmed the
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 3 — Motorists using class 1 vehicles who pay toll via PLUSMiles card, Touch ‘n Go or SmartTAG at the Batu Tiga and Sungai Rasau toll plazas can enjoy a toll rebate of up to 30 per cent until the end of the year. PLUS Malaysia Berhad
3 September 2014 – Women are crucial partners in peacebuilding and must be guaranteed the safe political space, including a seat at the “negotiating table,” to participate in all steps of post-conflict reconciliation and recovery processes, stressed high-level United Nations officials today at a Headquarters event. Chair of the UN
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 4 — Barisan Nasional had previously formed an entity similar to Penang’s volunteer patrol unit (PPS) when crime was high in Selangor, former New Straits Times (NST) chief editor Datuk Abdul Kadir Jasin has said when commenting on the outfit facing a police crackdown. The veteran journalist wrote in
PETALING JAYA – More than 4.27 billion litres of treated water – enough to fill more than 1,700 Olympic-sized swimming pools or keep Perlis going for 53 days – are leaking out of Malaysia’s ageing pipe system every day. Experts warn that more will be wasted unless drastic measures are
GEORGETOWN, Sept 3 -Police have launched an investigation against a news portal and its Penang-based reporter – the latest probe following a slew of sedition and criminal defamation charges filed against opposition leaders and a vocal law professor. State police chief Datuk Abdul Rahim Hanafi (pic) said Susan Loone, a
