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
PENANG, Sept 11 – The Penang government agrees with the questions raised by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad about the 1Malaysia Development Board (1MDB) and its massive debts. Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the Penang government was interested in the issue because 1MDB also bought land in
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 – Malaysians spend an average of five hours online daily, and three out of these five hours are spent on social media. And of the 19.2 million Internet users in Malaysia, 15.6 million of them are active on Facebook, said the 2013 Industry Performance Report published
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 11 – The leak of a Science paper in the ongoing UPSR examination involving nearly 500,000 students has cast doubts into the integrity of the examination board and Malaysia’s examination system, with one lawmaker calling for heads to roll for such serious breach. PKR’s Bayan Baru MP Sim
DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has apologised to the Sultan of Selangor for submitting only one name for the menteri besar position, while reiterating the party’s loyalty to the state monarch. Lim said he would discuss with de facto PKR leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim on the sultan’s decree that
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 ― The federal minister’s claim that Malaysian households make an average of RM5,900 monthly is a farce that does not represent the actual earning capacity of most Malaysians, an opposition lawmaker said today. DAP’s Bukit Mertajam MP Steven Sim said the figure is a result of
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 ― The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) revealed that the majority of contributors have less than RM50,000 remaining in their accounts at the age of 54, much lower than the RM120,000 recommended by the government. Malay language daily Berita Harian reported EPF chief executive officer Datuk Shahril Ridza Ridzuan
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 9 – The Sultan of Selangor was wrong to have decreed that Pakatan Rakyat (PR) submit more names to the palace for the menteri besar (MB) post, a constitutional expert said last night, adding that only God, and not humans, had absolute power. Dr Abdul Aziz Bari
GEORGETOWN, Sept 8 – A group of 51 Muslim non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have backed a memorandum to the police in Penang, calling for the arrest of Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng over his leadership of the state government’s Voluntary Patrol Unit (PPS). Calling their group the Islamic NGOs Front of
KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 6 – It seems that the fate of the Penang government now depends on the letters “m” and “b”. This came about after Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng was quoted by Bernama today as saying that the entire Penang government was willing to resign if the state Umno could
