Live updates on results in: Bukit SelambauPKR’s S Manikumar officially beats BN’s S Ganesan with 2,403-vote majority. Bukit GantangPAS’s embattled Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Muhammad Nizar Jamaluddin wins with 2,789 majority. Batang AiBarisan Nasional has won with an increased majority over PKR.
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ISA will not be used arbitrarily: Najib (Updated)
(Updated 7:32pm, 7 April 2009) PUTRAJAYA, 7 April 2009: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said today his administration would not use the Internal Security Act (ISA) arbitrarily but would give importance to the principles of human rights and civil liberties. He said the ISA was undergoing a review to ensure that it incorporated several […]
Polling in all three by-elections closes
KUALA LUMPUR, 7 April 2009: Polling in the Bukit Gantang, Bukit Selambau and Batang Ai by-elections closed at 5pm today. In Sarawak’s Batang Ai state constituency, which has 8,006 voters, the vote counting began at the Lubok Antu Sports Complex Hall at 3.04pm. The vote-tallying centre for the Bukit Gantang parliamentary constituency, Perak, is at […]
Nga: Reports for reciting Quranic verse baseless
IPOH, 7 April 2009: Perak DAP secretary Nga Kor Ming regards the police reports lodged against him for reciting a verse from the Quran at a ceramah in Bukit Gantang last Saturday, as baseless. “Islam is Malaysia’s official religion while the Quran contains invaluable knowledge. The Quran teaches mankind to be fair and compassionate,” he […]
“The choice is mine now,” says Abdullah
PUTRAJAYA, 7 April 2009: Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said today his retirement will enable him to do the things that he did not have the chance to do previously. “The choice is mine now,” said the former prime minister, adding that he did not have any problem adapting to his new lifestyle. “I have fun […]
Two stop busload of BN polls canvassers
GURUN, 7 April 2009: The police are conducting an investigation on two men who had stopped a bus carrying polls canvassers in Kampung Bukit Lembu near here on the excuse that they are phantom voters of today’s Bukit Selambau state by-election. Bukit Selambau state by-election police media relations officer Supt Hamzan Darus said the men, […]
No plan to limit number of election candidates
KUALA LUMPUR, 7 April 2009: The number of election candidates will not be limited as such a move is not in line with the country’s democratic practice, said Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Seri Mohamed Nazri Abdul Aziz. He said that the number of candidates was not important as anyone could contest so […]
Former ISA detainee wants to focus on family
SANDAKAN, 7 April 2009: Francis Indanan, 41, one of 13 Internal Security Act (ISA) detainees released three days ago wants to focus on his family. “My priority is to make up for the three years lost when detained under the ISA. I missed my wife and five children so much and want to spend my […]
Vote-counting starts in Batang Ai
LUBOK ANTU, 7 April 2009: Vote-counting for the Batang Ai state by-election started at the sports complex hall here at 3.04pm. The first votes to be counted were those from the polling stations at Sesco Township Hall, Kerangan Mong Kemas kindergarten and the Batu Kaya Sacra Multipurpose Hall. It is learnt that as at 3pm, […]
Directors fined over Tabung Haji withdrawals
KUALA LUMPUR, 7 April 2009: Two Metrowangsa Asset Management Sdn Bhd (MAM) directors were fined RM200,000 each by the Sessions Court here today for abetting in the withdrawal of RM50 million from its Tabung Haji account. Ghazali Atan, 57, and Mohamed Abdul Wahab, 58, were found guilty of abetting in withdrawing the money from the […]
