Barisan Nasional will do well in the tenth state election expected anytime between now and June 2011. Rural and Regional Development Minister Datuk Seri Mohd. Shafie Apdal (pic) said he was confident of this based on feelings on the ground, particularly in the rural areas. “What I have gathered from the many places I visited [...]
The former protem Secretary of Sarawak United People Party (SUPP) Dudong Branch, Wong Chin Yong who quit recently was officially accepted into Democratic Action Party (DAP) as a life member on Sunday. The announcement was made by the State DAP central committee after a meeting at its office at Chonglin Park today. Sarawak DAP Chairman, [...]
According to Bernama, besides politics, Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak has another fervid passion — Facebook. Like millions of people around the world, Najib has joined the social networking website to reach out to the masses, more so Malaysians, hoping to lessen the political divide between the old and young generations. [...]
Telekom Malaysia Berhad’s (TM) internet service on Sunday has been disrupted by a damaged underwater cable circuit at the Asian American Gateway (AAG) at Lantau, China. A TM statement said with the damage at AAG which links Malaysia to the United States, customers surfing websites hosted in Hong Kong and the US would experience slow [...]
The Home Ministry will continue to monitor blogs and websites touching on the people’s sensitivities with the cooperation of the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). Its minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said the authorities were now collecting evidence to bring the culprits to book for touching on sensitivities involving race, religion and the institution [...]
A new hotel is already up at Medan Raya (or is it Assyakirin Commercial Center?) – across the street from Medan Jaya. It look like a decent hotel – probably three star. A banner hang at the top floor of the hotel said it is called “KEMENA HOTEL”. Unfortunately we don’t have much details yet. [...]
Huh.. now it’s Anwar’s own man offering MPs to BN to regain control of Penang. Fabulous! Disgruntled PKR MP Datuk Seri Zahrain Mohd Hashim has reportedly offered enough Pakatan Rakyat colleagues to Barisan Nasional as to empower it to make constitutional amendments, but his colleagues dispute he has the numbers. It is understood that the [...]
Malaysian Indians pierced themselves with hooks and skewers Saturday as they celebrated a Hindu festival hailed as a show of religious freedom after a spate of attacks on places of worship. Huge crowds of devotees converged on the Batu Caves temple, a spectacular limestone cavern on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur that is expected to [...]
JAKARTA — The Indonesian military is deeply involved in the trade in illegally felled timber that is destroying vast tracts of pristine forest near the Malaysian border, researchers said Friday. Their findings come days after the government revealed plans to ask foreign governments to contribute to a billion-dollar “green investment fund” to help it cut [...]
Borneo Resources Institute Malaysia (BRIMAS) executive director Mark Bujang rapped Dr Rundi today for the latter recent comment that implied landowners in the state were making unsubstantiated claims over temuda in the state as they can’t distinguished it from NCR lands. This according to Dr Rundi led to several landowners end up using opposition parties, [...]
