ABDULLAH Ahmad Badawi berbual dengan (dari kiri) Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin; Gabenor Bank Negara, Tan Sri Zety Akhtar Aziz; Ketua Setiausaha Negara, Tan Sri Sidek Hassan; Menteri Kewangan Kedua, Tan Sri Nor Mohd Yakcop dan Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna, Datuk Mohd Shahrir Samad selepas mempengerusikan mesyuarat pertama Majlis Membanteras Inflasi Negara di Putrajaya semalam. fotoBernama 

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KUALA LUMPUR: Selepas tiga hari Menteri Besar Selangor menjamin air percuma mulai bulan ini, Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor Sdn Bhd (Syabas) hari ini menolak terma-terma dan syarat-syarat pembayaran yang dijanjikan oleh Kumpulan Darul Ehsan  Berhad (KDEB) bagi pihak kerajaan negeri berhubung pemberian 20 meter padu air percuma mulai 1 Jun.
Ketua Pegawai Eksekutifnya, Datuk Ruslan Hassan berkata, setelah [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: A spate of withdrawals hit the US$200,000 Singapore Open badminton championships, which will begin today at the Singapore Indoor Stadium with the qualifying tournament.

Taufik: The third seeded Indonesian withdrew yesterday.
Men’s singles second seed Kenneth Jonassen of Denmark and third seed Taufik Hidayat of Indonesia withdrew from the tournament yesterday. Singaporen Kendrick [...]

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has announced cost cutting measures to save the government two billion ringgit this year. Other measures include freezing the creation of new posts, cutting down on functions at hotels, and curbing purchases of assets like cars, furniture and computers.

KUALA LUMPUR: Tan Chun Seang and Kuan Beng Hong are the two Malaysian singles players who made it to the main draw of the US$200,000 Singapore Open badminton championships.
National championships runner-up Chun Seang defeated Indonesian Andreas Adityawarman 23-21, 21-16 in 32 minutes in the third round of the qualifying tournament at the Singapore Indoor Stadium [...]

PUTRAJAYA: The entertainment allowances of ministers and deputy ministers will be slashed and their paid holidays will now be limited to local and Asean destinations.
These as well as several other steps, including a freeze on new government posts and assets purchase, would save the Government RM2bil.
The slashing of allowances and limitation on paid holidays take [...]

PUTRAJAYA: Those who renewed their road tax in April and May and are eligible for cash rebates can get the payment from all post offices beginning Saturday.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said although the Government had announced that cash rebates could only be collected beginning July 1, it had decided to bring forward [...]

SLIM RIVER: A man died and the driver was critically injured when a Butterworth-Kuala Lumpur express bus carrying 26 people turned turtle and landed in a ditch on the North-South Expressway near here.
The rest of the 25 passengers were also injured in the 4.13pm incident on Wednesday that occurred at the 384th kilometre of the [...]

KLANG: The free water deal for Selangor consumers may not materialise as concessionaire Syarikat Bekalan Air Selangor (Syabas) and the state government are unable to come to an agreement.
Syabas chief executive officer Datuk Ruslan Hassan said in a statement that the company and state investment arm Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Bhd (KDEB) could not agree on [...]

A MALAY father has received numerous compliments from relatives and friends for choosing a traditional Chinese wedding card for his daughter who is getting married, reported Nanyang Siang Pau.
Some of the guests even said they would follow what he did.
Jamadi Abd Aziz, the 58-year-old village head of Bukit Kangkar in Johor, sent out the cards [...]