KUALA LUMPUR: Kerajaan akan membawa satu usul yang berhubungkait dengan isu kenaikan harga minyak dan barangan serta langkah untuk menanganinya pada sidang Parlimen esok, kata Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Perdana Menteri berkata, usul tersebut akan dibawa oleh Menteri Perdagangan Dalam Negeri dan Hal Ehwal Pengguna Datuk Shahrir Samad sebaik selesai sesi soal jawab.
“Saya tidak mahu [...]

KOTA KINABALU: Ketika tercetus drama politik di Sabah berikutan pengumuman Parti Maju Sabah (SAPP) bahawa mereka akan meneruskan langkah mengusulkan undi tidak percaya terhadap Perdana Menteri, Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) memperhebat kempen mempamer kekuatan.
Ia mendakwa 10 Ahli Parlimen Sarawak telah dibawa ke seberang laut dalam usaha menyekat mereka daripada meninggalkan Barisan Nasional (BN) untuk menyertai [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi berkata, kerajaan telah memutuskan untuk menolak cadangan kenaikan gaji 100 peratus pegawai kanan GLC, termasuk Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB), Datuk Seri Che Khalib Mohamad Noh.
“Cadangan untuk kenaikan gaji itu telah dikemukakan oleh GLC tetapi tidak diluluskan oleh Kementerian Kewangan,” katanya.
Beliau berkata demikian kepada [...]

Police are concerned that text message scams have become as serious as scratch-and-win scams
Remember that text message. If you ignored it you made a wise decision. Those who took the offer ended up losing up to RM1.2 million. SONIA RAMACHANDRAN and AUDREY VIJAINDREN call attention to the issue

AT least one report [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, SUN:
The government has agreed to implement a dual pump system at fuel stations in border areas to ensure foreigners do not buy fuel at subsidised prices.

Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said that under the system, local citizens could purchase fuel at subsidised prices while foreigners at current market [...]

Tambun became a ghost town yesterday when all the shophouses and houses were vacated for the bomb detonation. — Pictures by Ikhwan Munir and Muhaizan Yahya
IPOH: The anxious one-week wait by 4,000 residents in Tambun ended yesterday when a live 454kg World War 2 bomb was detonated on the banks of Sungai Pinji, [...]

Dmitri Torbinski and Andrei Arshavin scored in the second half of extra time as Russia powered into the semi-finals of Euro 2008 with a deserved victory over Holland in Basle.

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Dutch striker Ruud van Nistelrooy celebrates his 86th minute equaliser to force extra-time in their quarter final against Russia.
Ruud van Nistelrooy had taken the match into [...]

UEFA officials could be forced into an emergency meeting should Turkey’s injury crisis deepen ahead of their Euro 2008 semi-final against Germany on Wednesday.
Coach Fatih Terim had only 15 available outfield players for their dramatic victory over Croatia, three of whom will be banned for the clash in Basel after picking up their second yellow [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: The police will be calling up Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin to investigate his allegations in a recent statutory declaration, which touched on purported facts related to the ongoing Altantuya Shaariibuu trial.
Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan said the three individuals named in the document filed at the High Court here [...]

CEBU, Philippines (Reuters) - More than 700 people were missing on Sunday after a Philippine passenger ship capsized in a typhoon that has killed scores and left a trail of destruction across the archipelago.

A relative of a ferry passenger cries as she awaits the latest news inside the office of Sulpicio Lines in the port [...]