MELAKA: Naib Presiden Umno, Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam menawarkan diri untuk bertanding jawatan Timbalan Presiden pada pemilihan parti Mac depan.
“Saya sedia bertanding sekiranya ada kekosongan jawatan timbalan presiden parti, saya menawarkan diri (bertanding jawatan itu),” katanya ketika dihubungi Bernama di sini hari ini.
Mohd Ali, 59, yang juga Ketua Menteri Melaka sebelum ini menawarkan diri [...]

PETALING JAYA: Keputusan Majlis Tertinggi (MT) Umno minggu lalu menangguhkan perhimpunan agung tahunan dan pemilihan sehingga Mac depan dilihat sebagai petanda Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi tidak akan mempertahankan jawatan kali ini.
“Jika saya tidak silap, ini menunjukkan bahawa Presiden (Umno) tiada hasrat untuk mempertahankan jawatan beliau,” kata bekas Timbalan Presiden dan Timbalan Perdana Menteri, Tun [...]

PETALING JAYA: Kerajaan Perak akan melantik Ahli Majlis Perak Tengah yang baru secepat mungkin bagi menggantikan bekas penyandang jawatan itu, Zul Hassan yang diarahkan meletakkan jawatan Jumaat lalu kerana mengaku menerima habuan seks.
Menteri Besar Perak, Datuk Seri Ir. Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin berkata, kekosongan itu juga akan diisi oleh wakil Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR).
“Kita menyerahkan kepada [...]

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A commotion broke out when a group of Hindraf supporters tried to greet the Prime Minister at the government’s Raya open house at PWTC on Wednesday.

KUALA LUMPUR: There is no resolution at the Gerakan Naional Delegates Conference (NDC) to discuss whether the party will be leaving Barisan Nasional or not.
Gerakan secretary-general Datuk Seri Chia Kwang Chye said the party headquarters has not received such a resolution from any state.
”That does not mean it will not be raised. We leave it [...]

KAMUNTING: Malaysia Today editor and Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee Raja Petra Kamarudin has requested a change in his diet at the Kamunting detention centre here.
His wife, Marina Lee Abdullah, said her husband was unable to stomach the food prepared for detainees at the centre, despite having tried several times.
“My daughter told him to eat [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Some 160 Hindraf sympathisers and several Free Raja Petra Kamarudin supporters visited the annual Hari Raya open house hosted by the Prime Minister and other Muslim Cabinet ministers, causing a short but loud commotion.
Together with their children, some met with Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
Six-year-old W. Vwaishhnavi, the daughter of Hindraf [...]

KUALA LUMPUR:

Red tape is delaying the return of crew members of the two hijacked MISC chemical tankers MT Bunga Melati Dua and MT Bunga Melati Lima. MISC Group corporate affairs general manager Fiona Clare Pereira said they were unsure when the crew members would be able to fly home as documentation had to be completed [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, FRI:

The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) wants the government to set up a special task force to look into the growing problem of ’stateless’ Malaysians.

Commissioner Datuk N. Siva Subramaniam said the task force must specifically look into the core problem and others like documentation and to solve them.
He said [...]

One of the suspects (wearing skullcap) being led out of the Sri Sarawak flats in Jalan Imbi after the incident.

KUALA LUMPUR: A bizarre “treatment” to kick the smoking habit led to a middle-aged couple being beaten to death on Wednesday.

The dead woman seen inside the flat.

The helmets used in the ritual.

A 15-year-old girl [...]