MUAR, 31 May 2009: Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is to meet the Registrar of Societies (RoS) tomorrow or on 2 June to find who the legitimate president of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) is. He said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, just before flying off to South Korea today, had asked […]
Fifth H1N1 flu case in Singapore
SINGAPORE, 31 May 2009: A 22-year-old Singaporean woman who returned from the United States on 29 May became the fifth person in the city-state to contract the A H1N1 flu. The republic’s Health Ministry said today the woman, who was in Vermont and New York from 13 to 28 May, arrived here on the All […]
Residents behind collapsed supermart vacate homes (Updated)
Updated 7.37pm, 31 May 2009 PETALING JAYA, 31 May 2009: Eleven of 12 families living in double-storey houses along Jalan 14/15 behind the collapsed Jaya Supermarket building here have moved out as instructed for fear over the unsteady building structure still standing. Petaling Jaya police chief ACP Arjunaidi Mohamed said today the 11 families had […]
Govt to improve guidelines for demolishing buildings
KUALA LUMPUR, 31 May 2009: The government proposes to review the guidelines on demolishing buildings to ensure that they are clearer and are observed by all the parties concerned. Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today the improvements would depend on the report from the Housing and Local Government Ministry and Petaling Jaya […]
PKFZ measures will be “in best interest of the people”
SHAH ALAM, 29 May 2009: Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat says that any measure taken to address problems relating to the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) will be done in the best interest of the people, even if it affects his own political career. “I am going to unfold (all the strategies and […]
Building collapse: fourth body retrieved
PETALING JAYA, 29 May 2009: The death toll from the collapsed building which was formerly the Jaya Supermarket in Section 14, here has risen to four. The fourth victim, who was identified as Anuaruddin, 38, was taken out from the rubble at 4.07pm today. The body of the first victim was retrieved from the site […]
Kayveas not eligible to hold position
PUTRAJAYA, 29 May 2009: People’s Progressive Party president (PPP) Senator Datuk M Kayveas had been fined RM5,000 in 2005 and as such, he is not eligible to hold the post, said a group of party members who lodged a complaint with the Registrar of Societies (RoS) today. The group’s spokesperson, Dr N A Shanmuganathan said […]
Khairy’s Penanti remark “made in his own capacity”
By Deborah LohKUALA LUMPUR, 29 May 2009: The Umno leadership has dismissed the remarks by its Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin urging Penanti voters not to vote as a statement made in his own capacity. Party president Datuk Seri Najib Razak said Umno’s position was not to get involved in the Penanti by-election in any way, since Barisan […]
Umno gets tough with tainted office bearers
By Deborah LohUmno to toughen stance against corruption KUALA LUMPUR, 29 May 2009: Umno office bearers who are charged in court will be suspended from their party positions until proven innocent, the party’s supreme council (MT) agreed in principle today. Toughening its stance against corruption and negative public perception about the party, the MT decided that it […]
MIC wants SPM ruling reviewed
KUALA LUMPUR, 29 May 2009: The MIC has requested the Education Ministry to review its ruling on allowing students to take a maximum of 10 subjects only in the Sijil Peperiksaan Malaysia (SPM) examination. MIC president Datuk Seri S Samy Vellu said that following a series of meetings with Indian Malaysian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and […]
