KUANTAN, 29 May 2009: A female student of a religious secondary school, near here, was arrested after admitting that she had dumped her baby boy near a house in Balok Makmur yesterday. Kuantan police chief ACP Mohd Jasmani Yusoff said the 16-year-old’s mother had brought her daughter to the Kuantan police headquarters around 11am. “The […]
Now PPP has two chairpersons in Penang
PENANG, 29 May 2009: The political crisis in the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) continues to deteriorate when its former Penang vice-chairperson V Nanda Kumar today claimed to be the party’s state chairperson while Datuk Dr Loga Bala Mohan is still holding the post. Nanda who held a press conference today said he was appointed by […]
Gerakan VP Huan to quit (Updated)
By Gan Pei LingUpdated 7.11pm, 29 May 2009 PETALING JAYA, 29 May 2009: Gerakan vice-president Huan Cheng Guan has decided to quit the party, Kwong Wah Yit Poh reported today. Huan told the Chinese daily that he was resigning because he was disappointed with the Gerakan leadership. He said he would submit his resignation in three weeks so […]
Freeze bank accounts of those in PKFZ fiasco
By Gan Pei LingCorrected on 31 May 2009 at 10am KLANG, 29 May 2009: The government should freeze the bank accounts of everyone implicated in the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) controversy, while those who are also holding government positions should be suspended pending the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) investigations into the scandal. DAP Klang member of parliament […]
Man hits wife with hammer over bad chapati
NEW DELHI, 29 May 2009: In another case of domestic violence, a man tried to kill his wife by battering her with a hammer and throwing her out of his first-floor residence for serving bad chapati. Sanjay Singh, who works as a photographer in eastern Delhi, was reported to have returned home for lunch yesterday […]
Radical change needed for new world order: Dr M
KUALA LUMPUR, 29 May 2009: There must be a radical change in values and cultures if the people are to see a new world order enhanced by the advances of the digital age or a digital age benefiting from a new world order, said Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad. The former prime minister said the world […]
Govt mulls amendment on the rules of high court
KOTA KINABALU, 28 May 2009: The government is mulling over the proposed amendment on the Rules of the High Court 1980 to enable court proceedings to be recorded digitally. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz said currently, all proceedings were recorded physically on paper but the proposal to have […]
One dead in Jaya supermarket collapse (Updated)
Updated 11.19pm, 28 May 2009 PETALING JAYA, 28 May 2009: Part of the building which once housed the popular Jaya Supermarket in Section 14/20 collapsed this evening, killing one worker and trapping six others. Two others were rescued and sent to the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC), Petaling Jaya OCPD ACP Arjunaidi Mohamad said. All […]
Chin Peng a British national, says historian
KUALA LUMPUR, 28 May 2009: Chin Peng, the former secretary-general of the outlawed Communist Party of Malaya (CPM), is not a Malaysian citizen but a British national, according to historian Prof Emeritus Tan Sri Dr Khoo Kay Kim. Khoo said Chin Peng, whose real name is Ong Boon Hua, was born in 1923 in Sitiawan […]
PKA chairperson to lodge report with MACC
PORT KLANG, 28 May 2009: Port Klang Authority chairperson Datuk Lee Hwa Beng said he will lodge a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) based on the audited report on Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) project and the operator of the project, PKFZ Sdn Bhd tomorrow morning. He said he would hand over the […]
