PETALING JAYA, 13 Nov 2008: The Real Estate and Housing Developers’ Association (Rehda) Malaysia will seek judicial review of bumiputera housing quotas if state governments continue to impose new rulings on developers. Rehda president Datuk Ng Seing Liong said this would be the last resort if the issue could not be resolved with the respective […]
Archives for November 2008
Helping the Malay poor
By Michael Jeyakumar DevarajON 11 Nov 2008, the Prime Minister’s Department answered a question about income distribution that I had submitted before the start of the current parliamentary session. The reply was read by Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department SK Devamany, who gave the following figures based on a 2007 Statistics Department survey of households: The […]
Fear
By KW MakSupporter wearing a “Free RPK” t-shirt. THE arrest of 23 people who participated in a peaceful candlelight vigil on the night of 9 Nov 2008 in Petaling Jaya has resulted in uproar and indignation. The vigil was meant to protest against the Internal Security Act (ISA) and to commemorate the first anniversary of the Bersih […]
Arming our writers
By Kathy Rowland(© Agata Urbaniak / sxc.hu) ONE of the unexpected outcomes of the recent presidential election campaign in the US has been a sharp rise in gun sales. Demand for firearms and other related paraphernalia went up by 15% in October. There is a fear that president-elect Barack Obama will institute gun controls when he assumes […]
Tee Keat consolidates power
By Ng Boon HooiPETALING JAYA, 12 Nov 2008: The MCA’s surprising new line-up is party president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat’s way of consolidating power, political observers said. Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall chief executive officer Tang Ah Chai said the new line-up reflected Tee Keat’s unique style of leadership as a lone-ranger in the MCA. […]
Selangor police chief confirms Ronnie’s detention
SHAH ALAM, 12 Nov 2008: Selangor state executive councillor for local government, research and development, Ronnie Liu, was detained at his office at the Bangunan Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah at about 2pm today. Selangor Police Chief Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar, when contacted this afternoon, confirmed Liu’s detention with regard to the case of obstructing […]
Ex-CJ forsees common law-syariah court merger
PUTRAJAYA, 12 Nov 2008: Retired Chief Justice Tun Abdul Hamid Mohamad forsees the possibility of a merger of common law and syariah courts in Muslim-majority countries. He said this would harmonise common and syariah law principles to deal with the issues of conflicting laws and jurisdictions arising from inter-faith cases. “The same judges may be […]
“Welfare fund not for ISA families”
IPOH, 12 Nov 2008: The Perak government should not use the RM2 million allocation under the People’s Special Welfare Fund to help the families of Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees. Instead, former Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Tajol Rosli Ghazali has told his successor Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin and the 10 Pakatan Rakyat state […]
Dr M: Anyone who’s Bangsa Malaysia can be PM
PUTRAJAYA, 12 Nov 2008: Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said everyone could be Malaysia’s prime minister as long as the person is of Bangsa Malaysia and acceptable to all Malaysians. The former prime minister said that in this country, the law provided that anybody could become prime minister although the person must be the leader of […]
Court rejects Manoharan’s habeas corpus bid
KUALA LUMPUR, 12 Nov 2008: Kota Alam Shah assemblyman M Manoharan has failed for the third time to get out of the Kamunting detention centre, after the High Court here today dismissed his application for a writ of habeas corpus. Justice Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah said the grounds given in Manoharan’s affidavit did not fall […]
