GOMBAK: Private investigator P. Balasubramaniam’s house in Taman Pelangi here has been broken into but police have yet to ascertain whether anything was stolen.
According to a neighbour, M. Eswary, a Form Four student, she noticed the back grille gate of Balasubramaniam’s house was ajar at 2.30pm yesterday.
“I went to inspect and found the gate and [...]

GEMAS: A policeman has lodged a report against all his colleagues including his superiors allegedly over dissatisfaction on how the monthly bribes from those operating illegal activities was being distributed.
In retaliation, one of his superiors, a sergeant, lodged another police report against the policeman, a lance corporal, for allegedly selling station property to scrap dealers.
A [...]

PUTRAJAYA: Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan and Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail, who have been accused by Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim of fabricating evidence in his 1998 “black-eye” incident, were called in to have their statements recorded by the Anti-Corruption Agency on Friday.
The IGP arrived at the ACA headquarters here at around [...]

LONDON: Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez has warned Dutch winger Ryan Babel that playing in the Beijing Olympics could wreck his first-team prospects.

Babel has returned from an ankle injury faster than expected and is now in contention for a place in Netherlands’ Olympic squad for the Games in August.
If the 21-year-old is selected he will miss [...]

MADRID: Real Madrid have offered E20 million to sign Hamburg midfielder Rafael van der Vaart for five seasons, Spanish sports daily Marca reported yesterday.

The report comes one day after rival sports daily AS reported that the Spanish champions’ cross-town rivals Atletico Madrid had offered E15 million for the 25-year-old Dutch international.
Real Madrid and the Dutch [...]

PARIS: Kenenisa Bekele (pic) heads to the Beijing Olympics as the defending 10,000m champion and world record holder in both that event and the 5,000m, but sadly for running fans he has ruled out a double.

The tight schedule in what is expected to be a steaming hot Beijing and a clutch of tough-running rivals [...]

Datuk Mohamed Khalid Yusuf says the new ruling does not apply to eateries in hotels

PETALING JAYA: The government is “returning” some RM500 million into the pockets of people who eat at restaurants.

This follows the decision to impose the five per cent service tax only on eateries with an annual RM3 million turnover from [...]

ALOR STAR: A group of 19 non-governmental organisations has launched a signature campaign against Menteri Besar Azizan Abdul Razak’s plan to log timber in the Ulu Muda forest reserve.

Sahabat Ulu Muda II plans to collect at least 10,000 signatures before submitting them to Azizan and Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Spokesman for the group, [...]

BOTH top party posts must be left uncontested at the Umno general assembly scheduled for December.

Umno divisional leaders were clear that this was the message by their party president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi about the smooth transfer of power to his deputy Datuk Seri Najib Razak in mid-2010.
A special briefing [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak yesterday urged all Umno members to support the transition plan and continue to support his “boss” Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as president of Umno and prime minister.

For the first time, deputy president Najib addressed the 1,000-odd delegates at a special party meeting after Abdullah had spoken to them.
“It [...]