DEWAN RAKYAT, Thurs:
After 16 torrid days and at the conclusion of its First Meeting of the First Session of 12th Parliament, the Dewan Rakyat quivered, rocked and steadied as never before. Its dominion is now brimming with a new look and outlook, festering with verve and panache as MPs exchanged barbs and insults, animalistic [...]

China and Taiwan announced on Thursday they would quickly resume talks that have been suspended for more than a decade, in the latest sign of a dramatic thaw in tensions between the rivals.
The agreement to gather in Beijing in two weeks came a day after Chinese President Hu Jintao met the head of the island’s [...]

Sabah’s Muhd Ibnu Kasim (left) tackles Kedah‘s Mohd Faiz Subri during their match yesterday. Pic: HAIRUL ANUAR ABD RAHIM.
KEDAH and Selangor laid down a marker for the gold medal in contrasting styles with opening day wins in the football competition of the Malaysia Games at the Gong Badak [...]

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said an announcement on how this would be done would be made when the time was right.
“Foreigners will definitely have to pay the full price when we make the announcement and (when we) enforce it immediately,” he told a press conference in Parliament here yesterday.
Abdullah said some people [...]

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah leaders are expecting some “goodies” from Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi during his two-day visit to the state from Saturday to attend the national-level Tadau Kaamatan or Harvest Festival celebrations.
Among the announcements Abdullah is expected to make is the abolition of the controversial Department of Federal Development Sabah (JPPS), set [...]

NOT WELL: Some of the trainees waiting at the hospital. NST PIX: Imran Makhzan SETIU:
NOT AGAIN! SIXTY-FOUR National Service trainees from the Barracuda camp, here, were rushed to the hospital for food poisoning, today, barely a week after eight trainees were reported to have suffered the same fate.

Out of the [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, THURS:
Two more former senior leaders of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) today applied to join Umno by handing in their application forms to Umno deputy president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

The two applicants were former PKR Permatang Pauh division head Anuar Shaari and former national Keadilan Youth exco member Khairul Anuar Ramli.
In [...]

PUTRAJAYA, WED:
Contrary to what its critics claim, Malaysian Indian non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are with the MIC and not working against the largest Indian-based political party in the country.

Federal Territories Deputy Minister and MIC Information chief Datuk M.
Saravanan said some quarters were saying that Indian-based NGOs were not supportive of the MIC and [...]

PUTRAJAYA: The monorail project in the federal administrative capital, on hiatus for the past few years, is likely to be revived.

KUALA LUMPUR: Rising food prices, including that of milk, cheese, eggs and vegetables, pushed the inflation rate in April to three per cent a year, the highest in 15 months.