Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the MSC implementation council meeting yesterday. With him are (from left) Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein, Higher Education Minister Datuk Seri Khaled Nordin, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Datuk Dr Maximus Ongkili.
PUTRAJAYA: Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Pengedali laman web Malaysia Today, Raja Petra Kamarudin telah ditahan di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) sebentar tadi.
Perkara tersebut disahkan oleh isterinya, Marina Lee Abdullah ditahan di bawah Seksyen 731 Akta ISA, yang membolehkan seseorang itu ditahan selama 60 hari.
“Dia ditahan oleh 10 sepuluh orang anggota polis dihadapan rumah kami (di Sungai Buloh) pada jam 1:10 [...]

SEPANG: Lima pemimpin kanan Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) yang bertolak ke Taiwan petang ini mendakwa sekumpulan ahli Parlimen Barisan Nasional (BN) telah bersetuju untuk mengadakan perbincangan melompat parti.
Mereka merupakan Pengarah Strategi PKR, Saifuddin Nasution, Ketua Penerangannya, Tian Chua, Timbalan Pengarah Pilihan Raya PKR, Fuziah Salleh serta Ahli Majlis Tertinggi. Low Chee Chong dan Ketua Penerangan Wanita [...]

PETALING JAYA: Hasrat mantan Perdana Menteri, Tun Mahathir Mohamad untuk menyertai semula Umno merupakan satu langkah yang tepat memandangkan parti itu memang memerlukan ‘suara’ Tun Mahathir ekoran keadaannya yang semakin kucar kacir.
Pensyarah Pembangunan Sosial Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM), Prof. Dr. Ahmad Atory Hussain, tindakan Tun Mahathir keluar Umno pada pada 19 Mei lalu tidak memberi [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Youngster Mohd Arif Abdul Latif let slip a chance to qualify for his first-ever quarter-final in a senior international tournament, crashing out in the third round of the men’s singles competition of the Taiwan Open in Taipei yesterday.
He was beaten 16-21, 15-21 by unheralded Japanese Koichi Saeki. It was his first match in [...]

PETALING JAYA: The Harimau Muda (national Under-19) squad will get international exposure ahead of their campaign in the Premier League next year.
Coach K. Rajagopal said that for a start, the team would compete in an Under-21 tournament in Hanoi from Sept 20-28 before they travel to the Middle East and South Korea or Japan for [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Forty-seven people were arrested on the opening day of Ops Warta 1 launched by Selangor traffic police yesterday.
Selangor Public Order and Traffic chief Supt Che Hussin Omar said 500 traffic police officers from 12 districts in the state conducted the joint operation focusing on Gombak district.
“A total of 105 arrest notices were pasted [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin was arrested Friday afternoon under the Internal Security Act.
Three Malaysian newspapers – Sin Chew Daily, The Sun and Suara Keadilan – were also issued show cause letters by the Home Ministry.
Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar told The Star Raja Petra was detained under Section 73 [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: A Form Four student has reported to the police that he was beaten up by more than 20 students in front of his school in Taman Wangsa Maju here.
The 16-year-old boy claimed that a teacher and guard who saw the incident did not go to his aid.
“After I was beaten up, the teacher [...]

GEORGE TOWN: Five men gang-raped an Indonesian maid after they used chloroform to overpower her in Bukit Dumbar here.
OCPD Azam Abd Hamid said the maid, in her early 20s, was walking along the road on Monday when she was bundled into a car and taken to an unknown place.
“When she woke up a few hours [...]