BN component parties rallied behind Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi following SAPP president’s no-confidence move against him. However, any action against SAPP would only be decided after the party’s supreme council meeting.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Police grappled with protesters in Bangkok on Friday as thousands of demonstrators marched through the Thai capital in an attempt to force the five-month old government from power.

A supporter of the People’s Alliance for Democracy shouts anti-government slogans in Hat Yai, June 19, 2008. Thousands of Thai police backed by water cannon [...]

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Many Hollywood celebrities who had supported Hillary Clinton are rallying behind Barack Obama, pledging money and star power to the Democrat’s U.S. presidential bid before a big fundraiser next week.

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama greets actor Robert De Niro (L) at a campaign rally in East Rutherford, New Jersey in this [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi menjelaskan beliau menyifatkan Datuk Yong Teck Lee sebagai tamak kerana Presiden Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) itu lebih tertarik dengan tawaran yang diberikan Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, yang berkemungkinan jawatan tinggi berbanding kedudukan ditawarkan Barisan Nasional.
“Saya dah tahu beliau mulakan macam-macam tindakan semasa saya pergi ke Sabah. Saya mahu berjumpa [...]

ABDULLAH Ahmad Badawi bersenyum ketika sidang media selepas mempengerusikan mesyuarat tergempar Majlis Tertinggi Barisan Nasional di Kuala Lumpur petang tadi.
KUALA LUMPUR: Dewan Tertinggi Barisan Nasional (BN), yang mengadakan mesyuarat tergempar kira-kira tiga jam petang tadi, memutuskan untuk tidak mengambil sebarang tindakan ‘disiplin’  ke atas Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) sehingga ia menerima pendirian rasmi parti itu.
Malah, BN juga memutuskan untuk [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Tindakan Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) yang menyatakan pendirian hilang kepercayaan terhadap Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi tidak mungkin berjaya menggugat kedudukan beliau sebagai Perdana Menteri.
Bekas Perdana Menteri, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad berkata, suara SAPP sahaja tidak cukup untuk menjatuhkan Abdullah.
“Mereka (SAPP) tak mungkin berjaya, jumlah mereka kecil sangat. Buat undi tak percaya pun tak [...]

(Mutakhir) PETALING JAYA: Majlis Tertinggi Barisan Nasional (BN) mengadakan mesyuarat tergempar petang ini khusus untuk membincangkan tindakan Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) semalam yang mengisytiharkan parti itu hilang kepercayaan terhadap Perdana Menteri dan mahu menyokong usul tidak percaya ke atas Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Mesyuarat bermula pukul 2.30 petang di Menara Dato Onn, Kuala Lumpur.
Tiada wakil SAPP dalam mesyuarat itu.
Terdahulu, Presiden [...]

JOHOR BARU: Bentayan state assemblyman Gwee Tong Hiang was thrown out of the assembly hall yesterday for defying a house rule to wear official attire and songkok.
He was asked to leave after failing to adhere to the 50-year-old protocol requiring all 56 assemblymen to wear the official uniform.
Speaker Datuk Ali Hassan said at 9.30am that [...]

PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu has exposed his own deep racist sentiments by sympathising with Hindraf, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said.
The former prime minister said that by calling for the release of Hindraf leaders, Samy Vellu was supporting a group who represented racist Tamils who still looked to their old masters – the [...]

Selangor’s hitman Safee Sali will play a vital role against Kedah.
KEDAH may be the favourites but Selangor coach Dollah Salleh believes his men are more than capable of denying the northern side a second successive FA Cup title at Shah Alam Stadium tomorrow.

A win for Kedah will mean having defended the second of [...]