KUALA LUMPUR: “Mereka kata Anwar pembohong, tapi saya tak gila.” Demikian reaksi Ketua Umum Pakatan Rakyat, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim hari ini apabila ditanya lagi butiran mengenai senarai ahli-ahli Parlimen Barisan Nasional (BN) yang dikatakan telah bersetuju untuk beralih ke Pakatan Rakyat bagi membolehkan kerajaan baru persekutuan dibentuk. Hari ini beliau berkata, seramai 35 Ahli [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim meminta Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi mengadakan sidang Parlimen khas sebelum 23 September ini bagi membincangkan usul undi tidak percaya terhadap kepimpinan beliau. Ketua Pembangkang itu mengumumkan demikian pada sidang media di sini sebentar tadi. Kelmarin, Abdullah telah menolak permintaan Anwar, Ketua Umum Pakatan Rakyat, untuk membincangkan [...]

PUTRAJAYA: Kementerian Dalam Negeri akan memantau keadaan dan suasana dalam negara termasuk tindak tanduk Ketua Pembangkang, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim sebelum mengambil sebarang tindakan. Menteri Dalam Negeri, Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar berkata, keselamatan dan ketenteraman awam penting bagi memastikan negara dalam keadaan aman dan manamana pihak yang cuba menjejaskannya boleh dikenakan tindakan. Bagaimanapun, beliau [...]

Sabah Progressive Party has decided to pull out of Barisan Nasional on Wednesday to become an independent party.

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah Pro­gressive Party (SAPP) has decided to pull out of the 14-member Barisan Nasional Government, taking away two MPs and at least two of its four assemblymen who will remain independent. SAPP president Datuk Yong Teck Li and his supreme council members raising their hands after announcing SAPP’s pullout from Barisan Nasional at [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: The Umno supreme council meets at 3pm Thursday and the main topic is expected to be the transition of power. Umno president Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has said he would hand over the presidency to his deputy Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in June 2010 or “earlier if possible.” Party elections are [...]

PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim claims he sent a letter to the Prime Minister on Thursday requesting him to call an emergency Parliament session no later that Sept 23 to deliberate on a vote of no-confidence against Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi’s leadership. The letter was jointly signed by him as the PKR leader, [...]

IPOH: The DAP prefers fresh elections than defections to decide on the new government. Its national vice-chairman M. Kulasegaran said this has always been the stand of the party which was fair to the voters. “This is because elected representatives who won in elections under their party banners should stand by them,” he told reporters [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Twenty-seven men who admitted to failing to disperse from the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) unlawful assemblies around the city on Nov 25 last year despite police order to do so were fined RM1,000 each. They have to serve three weeks in jail in default of the payment. In sentencing the group Thursday, [...]

Manager Luiz Felipe Scolari knows Chelsea will have to overcome far sterner tests to reach May’s final in Rome. LONDON: Luiz Felipe Scolari has warned his Chelsea stars not to get carried away after their Champions League demolition of Bordeaux. Scolari’s side started their bid to avenge last season’s Champions League final defeat against Manchester [...]