“Please, I help you, you help me. That way we have a very fair and happy relationship….It won’t cost you anything to give us what we want. We will do what we should to give you what you want. And you know what I want.” Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak handing over federal funds [...]

“If there is a need to appoint one, I would suggest non-partisan ulama, like Datuk Seri Harussani Zakaria.” KULIM-Bandar Baru Member of Parliament Zulkifli Noordin names the Perak mufti as his candidate of choice to lead Pakatan Rakyat. Zulkifli, no stranger to controversy, was responding to a blog posting by Datuk Zaid Ibrahim. Zaid had [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 1 July 2009: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Member of Parliament (MP) for Padang Serai, N Gobalakrishnan, received two SMS death threats early this morning. Gobalakrishnan Gobalakrishnan, who is also PKR supreme council member, said the first SMS came in at 12.47am while he was asleep, while the second came in at 6.48am. The [...]

“Ministers and functionaries, people connected to the government, they’re doing their job.” THEN-Election Commission (EC) chairperson Tan Sri Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman, shortly after the 2007 Machap by-election. He was commenting on the morality of development promises by Barisan Nasional (BN)-aligned government officials to voters before the polls. Abdul Rashid said that allocations, given out [...]

ALOR SETAR, 8 April 2009: Former Kedah executive council member V Arumugam, who returned from India today, said he had left the country because of threats on his life and that of his family, as well as the pressure on him to leave the party. “I fled to Mumbai alone to seek peace of mind [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, 2 MARCH 2009: MIC presidential aspirant Datuk M Muthupalaniappan claimed today that certain quarters in the party were using threats and underhanded tactics to ensure that he did not obtain the 50 nominations needed to contest the MIC top post. He said some leaders in the party were threatening the branch chairpersons not [...]