Monday, July 22, 2013

Australia puts bounty on people-smugglers

Australia said Sunday it would pay rewards of up to Aus$200,000 (US$180,000) for information leading to the conviction of people-smugglers, as it defended its tougher approach on asylum-seekers. Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on Friday announced...

Alvivi : Stop the public LYNCHING

The decision of the AG to charge Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee marks the half-way point in the public lynching of these two young people. What were they guilty of? A moment of unthinking madness;...

Former Indonesian VP denies speaking to Berita Harian

Former Indonesian vice-president Jusuf Kalla, said to have mediated a deal between top Malaysian political rivals to respect the outcome of the May 5 general election, has written to an UMNO-owned daily denying he had...

Americk takes Ops Scorpene back in time to the night of the Altantuya murder

SUARAM's latest Ops Scorpene fundraiser turned out to be a thriller, thanks to a scintillating talk by Americk Sidhu, the lawyer for the late P.I. Bala. Guests who attended listened with pin-drop silence as Americk...

'16:16' in Terengganu will ensure ruling BN serve the people

There will be no change of government if PAS wins the Kuala Besut by-election, resulting in an equal split of total state seats i Terengganu, said PAS's by-election campaign chief Husam Musa. As such, Husam...

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

The indelible ink supplier is SPR friend?

Pandan parliamentarian Rafizi Ramli today claimed that the supplier of indelible ink to the Election Commission (EC) is businessman Mohd Salleh Mohd Ali, who allegedly secured the contract through direct negotiation. Citing a source from...

Bung accuses DAP of sponsoring Alvivi

Kinabatangan MP Bung Mokhtar Radin today accused DAP of sponsoring sex blogger duo Alvin Tan and Vivian Lee – better known as Alvivi – in producing a Ramadan greeting image of them having pork dish...

Sabotage in Kuala Besut may lead to '16-16'?

A mobile text message from a local UMNO leader in Kuala Besut calling on BN supporters to vote for PAS’s candidate Azlan Yusof caught the attention of PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu, who said an...

Alvin and Vivian told to surrender

Malaysia's Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Khalid Abu Bakar has asked a pair of controversial sex bloggers to surrender themselves to the Kuala Lumpur police. Mr Khalid said the police wanted to investigate Alvin...

PR sues EC-7, seeks to declare GE13 void

Pakatan Rakyat today named seven members of the Election Commission in a lawsuit over the body's biased conduct of the May 5 general election. The seven are EC's top duo Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof and...

Friday, July 12, 2013

Perak’s Stolen Election: The Second Time Round

Many Malaysians are aware of the first time when the people of Perak had their state election results in which they had chosen the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition to govern the state overturned by trickery...

Thursday, July 11, 2013

Businessman vs engineer in Kuala Besut

PAS is fielding a popular local businessman in its quest to wrest the Kuala Besut state seat in Terengganu from BN at the July 24 by-election. Azlan Yusof was announced as the party's candidate by...

To repeal or not? Cabinet torn apart over Sedition Act

Conflicting statements and claims by ministers over the government's promise last year to repeat the Sedition Act have now threatened to split prime minister Najib Razak’s cabinet. Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had defended the...

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

UMNO in trouble, says former UMNO chief propagandist

Former group editor of UMNO's New Straits Times A. Kadir Jasin said UMNO members were currently in dilemma over the no-contest call for the party’s top two posts in the upcoming party election. “To the...

Stop the flip-flop and start repealing draconian acts

PAS has urged prime minister Najib Razak and his administration to to display courage in repealing draconian laws enacted by the British colonial government, in response to latest confusing statements from government leaders. "Najib must...

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