IPOH, 15 March 2009: The Ipoh City Council (MBI) has demolished a marble plaque put up by Pakatan Rakyat (PR) assemblypersons to mark the controversial state assembly emergency sitting on 3 March. Perak Local Government Committee chairperson Dr Mah Hang Soon, from the Barisan Nasional (BN), said the marble structure was removed this morning as [...]

IN many ways, it was a privilege to be in the US when 9/11 happened. I was a journalist on a fellowship at the University of Maryland, College Park when the World Trade Centre came crashing down in an unexpected terrorist attack on American soil [1]. The privilege of being in the US then was [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 10 March 2009: The Dewan Rakyat has rejected a motion by the DAP to debate the denial of entry to Pakatan Rakyat (PR) assemblypersons into the Perak Darul Ridzuan complex to conduct an emergency state assembly sitting. The motion was filed by Nga Kor Ming (DAP-Taiping) on 4 March, but was rejected in [...]

IPOH, 6 March 2009: The Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition in Perak will plant five trees near the tree under which the emergency sitting of the state legislative assembly was held on 3 March. Pantai Remis assemblyperson Nga Kor Ming said the tree-planting ceremony would be held at 11am to commemorate the first anniversary of the [...]

ON 3 March, Datuk Seri Azalina Othman Said ridiculed the idea of meeting for serious deliberation beneath a tree. Yesterday, on 4 March, Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar followed in her dubious footsteps. The Perak representatives’ decision to hold an emergency assembly sitting under a tree on 3 March, he said, had made [...]

IPOH, 5 March 2009: Police are looking for six men identified to have taken part in an illegal assembly in front of the Perak Darul Ridzuan building here on Tuesday. Perak police chief Datuk Zulkifli Abdullah said the six were identified from photographs obtained from the media when police cordoned the area to prevent the [...]