Voters’ turnout at the 28 polling centres in Permatang Pauh has been overwhelming. Datuk Arif Shah Omar Shah cast his vote at SK Seberang Jaya 2 while his counterpart Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim cast his at SK Seri Penanti.

BUTTERWORTH: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is in the lead in the Permatang Pauh by-election with the majority of the ballot boxes counted. The counting of votes for the by-election started almost immediately after polling closed at 5pm. Present at all centres were representatives from both Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat to witness the tabulations. As [...]

SHAH ALAM: There is enough evidence to show that Altantuya Shaariibuu had been taken by C/Insp Azilah Hadri and Kpl Sirul Azhar Umar to Puncak Alam where they murdered her, a High Court heard. Lead prosecutor DPP Tun Abd Majid Tun Hamzah, who began his submissions at the end of the prosecution’s case on Tuesday, [...]

BANGKOK: Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, his own offices besieged by thousands of demonstrators, called Tuesday for people to end protests that aimed to topple him from power. Samak spoke less than an hour after thousands of protesters from the right-wing People’s Alliance from Democracy flooded into the compound of Government House, which hosts the [...]

BUKIT MERTAJAM: 1pm Update – With out-of-towners flooding into the Permatang Pauh constituency for the by-election, many drivers found themselves at a standstill late Tuesday morning as the town’s small roads were no match for the traffic volume. Roads heading to Kubang Semang, Taman Guar Perahu, Tanah Liat and other main towns were clogged up [...]

PERMATANG PAUH, TUE: THE ballot boxes have just arrived at the tally centre at 6:40pm. At the close of voting, at 5pm, a total of 38,144 voters turned up to cast their votes, recording 65.25 per cent of voter turnout. However, according to an Election Commission spokesperson, these were unofficial figures. The official figures will [...]

Syed Hamid being surrounded by reporters after the tabling of the bill. NST PIX KUALA LUMPUR, Tue.: Home Minister Syed Hamid Albar has called on the opposition not to attribute any “sinister motive” to the timining of the Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) Identification Bill 2008 debate. “The bill was supposed to be tabled after the National [...]

DEWAN RAKYAT, Aug 26, 2008: With hours to go before the official results of the Permatang Pauh parliamentary by-election are announced, the exit polls conjured by the Pakatan Rakyat gives the constituency to Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, if you are to believe the optimistic projection spun by his people that 61 per cent of votes [...]

BUTTERWORTH, TUES: A smiling Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak was happy that the voting process was going smoothly at all 25 polling centres in Permatang Pauh. He said there had been no incidents so far and voters were carrying out their duty without any problem. He said this when he arrived at the [...]

PERMATANG PAUH, TUES: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has called on voters to go out and cast their votes as the percentage of those who have done so by midday was still low. He attributed the problem partly to massive jams that occurred on most roads leading to polling stations here. A mid-afternoon [...]