KUALA LUMPUR, 10 Aug 2009: About 200 people from 70 non-governmental organisations (NGOs) gathered outside Menara Dato Onn here today, supporting Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin’s statement that labelled Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim a traitor. The Peninsula Malay Students Federation (GPMS) and Umno Youth carried banners displaying the […]
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Number of A(H1N1) deaths rises to 32 (Updated 7:30pm)
Updated 7:30pm, 10 Aug 2009 KUALA LUMPUR, 10 Aug 2009: Six more deaths from Influenza A(H1N1) were confirmed today, bringing the total number of cases in the country to 32. Director-general of Health Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said in a statement today that 203 new cases were reported, all of them locally transmitted […]
Punish parents of juvenile delinquents: Murugiah
PUTRAJAYA, 10 Aug 2009: Parents of juvenile delinquents should be held accountable and punished for crimes committed by their children, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk T Murugiah said today. He said this would act as a deterrent to ensure the parents monitored their children’s movements to prevent them from falling into bad […]
Permatang Pasir by-election on 25 Aug
PUTRAJAYA, 10 Aug 2009: The Permatang Pasir state by-election has been fixed for 25 Aug 2009 while the nomination will be on 17 Aug, the Election Commission announced today, Bernama reports. The eight-day campaigning period will be held during the fasting month of Ramadhan. The by-election is being held because of the death of the […]
Demonising demonstrations
By Deborah Loh“Demonstrations are done out of desperation and selfishness. The majority of the people are uneasy with such action …The majority of the people are rational and want important and basic matters to be made a priority by the government.” HOME Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, calling the 1 Aug 2009 anti-Internal Security Act (ISA) protest […]
Clamping down on students
By Zedeck SiewSPEAKING at the Muslim Students Leadership Convention on 26 July 2009, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said he wanted “to see student leaders with dynamic and healthy minds in terms of airing views and opinions”. “I just hope that you can uphold the principle of intellectual honesty in assessing and scrutinising certain issues which […]
Supporting detention without trial
By Zedeck Siew“Don’t just look to our country only. See our neighbours or other countries. They too have laws more or less like ours or more stricter [sic].” Defence Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, commenting on the need to retain the Internal Security Act (ISA), to “ensure economic and political stability”. He suggested that the Act […]
Raja Nazrin: Democracy does not mean mob rule
KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Aug 2009: “Democracy does not mean anything goes. It certainly does not mean mob rule,” the Raja Muda of Perak Raja Dr Nazrin Shah said. He said in any functioning democracy, there were rules as to how society was to be governed, and in Malaysia, the rules were enshrined in the country’s […]
Suhakam elected to human rights ICC
KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Aug 2009: The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) has been unanimously elected to sit on the International Coordinating Committee (ICC) of Human Rights Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. The election was made at the annual meeting of the Asia Pacific Forum of National Human Rights Institutions (APF) […]
Call on govt to speed up M’sia-Indon talks on maids
KUALA LUMPUR, 6 Aug 2009: The Malaysian Association of Foreign Maid Agencies (Papa) today called on the Home and Human Resources ministries to take follow-up action to speed up the negotiations between Malaysia and Indonesia on maids. Its president, Datuk Raja Zulkepley Dahalan, said this was because two meetings between the two countries to discuss […]
