MOHD. NAJIB Tun Razak (kiri) mengucapkan tahniah selepas mengumumkan Arif Shah Omar Shah sebagai calon Barisan Nasional mencabar Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dalam pilihan raya kecil Permatang Pauh di Seberang Jaya malam tadi. - foto The Star oleh MUSTAFA AHMAD

(Dikemas kini) BUKIT MERTAJAM: Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Seberang Jaya, Datuk Arif Shah Omar Shah dipilih untuk mewakili Barisan Nasional (BN) bertanding dalam pilihan [...]

PETALING JAYA: Angkatan Keadilan Insan Malaysia, (AKIM) melahirkan keyakinan memenangi pilihan raya kecil kerusi Parlimen Permatang Pauh 26 Ogos ini.
Presidennya, Hanafi Mamat berkata, parti yang dipimpinannya itu akan memperoleh sokongan yang padu terutamanya daripada ahli-ahli PAS kerana teras perjuangan mereka adalah mahu menegakkan Islam dan memerlihara hak orang Melayu.
“Kami yakin akan memperoleh sokongan yang padu daripada pengudi di [...]

BUKIT MERTAJAM: Lebih 1,000 pegawai dan anggota polis Pulau Pinang akan bertugas sepanjang tempoh pilihan raya kecil Parlimen Permatang Pauh bagi memastikan pilihan raya itu berjalan lancar dan selamat.
Timbalan Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Ismail Omar berkata, daripada jumlah itu, 700 orang merupakan pegawai dan anggota yang bertugas di Daerah Seberang Perai Tengah manakala bakinya [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Late diagnosis and treatment means that more than 80 percent of people infected with H5N1 avian influenza in Indonesia have died, researchers reported on Wednesday.
An analysis of outbreaks in Indonesia, the country hardest hit by bird flu, affirms that quick treatment with antiviral drugs can save lives. But local health care workers [...]

TBILISI (Reuters) – U.S. military planes began delivering aid to Georgia as Washington stepped up support for a shaky ceasefire with Russian troops around the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks during a news conference, on the situation in Georgia, at the State Department in Washington August 13, 2008. (REUTERS/Yuri [...]

BUKIT MERTAJAM: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim promised a clean fight and no personal attacks during the 10-day Permatang Pauh by-election campaign period.
The PKR adviser said there would not be any maki hamun (cursing) and the election campaign would be based on issues.
He also urged Permatang Pauh voters to come out in full force although polling [...]

JOHOR BARU: All five teenagers who ran away from home for about a week have been reunited with their parents.
Three of them, Xiu Mei, 18, together with her friends Li Zhen, 16, and Wan Jing, 14, reached Johor Baru about 11pm on Tuesday.
They had gone to Kuala Lumpur with two others, known only as Yu, [...]

GEORGE TOWN: For the Hungry Ghosts festival this year, a temple here has prepared something special for the earthquake and cyclone victims of Sichuan, China and Myanmar – two luxury condominium towers.
The 5.5m-high paper effigy, along with other offerings, were burnt outside the Lebuhraya Jelutong temple yesterday in line with the Chinese belief that those [...]

SHAH ALAM: The rights of Malay students were never questioned when the suggestion was made that 10% of Universiti Teknologi Mara’s (UiTM) intake be open to non-Malays and foreign students, said Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim.
“Never at any moment had I questioned the rights of Malay students but it was reported out of [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: In a bid for closure on his youngest brother’s death, Mohd Khairul Rizal Buhari, 31, has put up a banner at Jalan Raja Abdullah, calling for witnesses to come forward.
The banner was placed between a signage post and a tree where a hit-and-run accident that killed his brother Azrul Farez Izhar took place.
The [...]