Posted on 15 November 2008
MOHD. Najib Tun Razak bercakap sesuatu dengan Dr. Mahathir Mohamad sambil diperhatikan oleh Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin pada majlis jamuan Aidilfitri di Hulu Klang 14 Oktober lalu.
PETALING JAYA: Kepimpinan Datuk Seri Mohd. Najib Tun Razak – yang bakal mengetuai Umno dan Barisan Nasional (BN) mulai Mac depan – tiada pilihan melainkan menghapuskan rasuah dalam Umno [...]
Tags: Mahathir: Najib perlu hapus politik wang kuasai PRU-13
Posted on 15 November 2008
KUALA NERANG: Ahli Dewan Undangan Negeri (ADUN) Kuala Nerang, Datuk Syed Sobri Syed Hashim (gambar) berkata, beliau sudah menjelaskan semua hutang bank sebanyak RM150,000.
Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) juga mengesahkan spekulasi pilihan raya kecil tidak timbul lagi kerana isu itu “kini hanya akademik kerana sudah ada penyelesaian.”
Timbalan Pengerusi SPR, Datuk Wan Ahmad Wan Omar berkata, pihaknya [...]
Tags: ADUN Kuala Nerang bebas muflis, tiada pilihan raya kecil
Posted on 15 November 2008
THAKSIN Shinawatra bersama isterinya, Pojaman di Manchester Stadium, Manchester pada 24 Ogos lalu. – foto AP
[DIKEMAS KINI] BANGKOK: Thaksin Shinawatra, bekas Perdana Menteri Thailand yang digulingkan dua tahun lalu dan kini dalam buangan, telah menceraikan isterinya, Pojaman Shinawatra, semalam.
Pasangan itu telah mendirikan rumah tangga pada 1976.
Mereka mempunyai seorang anak lelaki, Panthongtae dan dua anak [...]
Tags: Thaksin ceraikan Pojaman di Hong Kong
Posted on 15 November 2008
SHE was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of two and a half years, but nine-year-old Shafira Mohd Zairi is coping well and excelling in what she loves to do.
Recently, the Year Three pupil of SK Bukit Jelutong, Shah Alam, won an international writing and art competition organised by healthcare company Roche and [...]
Tags: 600 windfall for nine-year-old girl, RM23
Posted on 15 November 2008
SINGAPORE: Nordin Montong, a 32-year-old cleaner from Sarawak, had behaved erratically shortly before the tiger attack on Thursday afternoon which killed him.
He was seen shouting and flinging items about. He later vaulted a low wall and landed in a moat in the enclosure, four metres below.
Carrying a yellow pail and a broom, he then crossed [...]
Tags: Zoo cleaner behaved erratically
Posted on 15 November 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: Former Universiti Malaya (UM) vice-chancellor Datuk Rafiah Salim has demanded an explanation and public apology from a deputy minister for questioning her performance as head of the university.
Rafiah said that Deputy Higher Education Minister Datuk Idris Haron, when replying to a question in the Dewan Rakyat on Wednesday, had insinuated that she had [...]
Tags: Apologise, former V-C tells deputy minister
Posted on 15 November 2008
JOHOR BARU: The state has been ranked third out of the top five states nationwide in the recent Ujian Penilaian Sekolah Rendah (UPSR) examinations.
Johor Education director Sufa’at Tumin said the success was due to the state’s excellent performance in the examination with a School Average Grade or ‘Gred Purata Sekolah’ (GPS) of 2.22.
“We have achieved [...]
Tags: Johor ranked third out of top five states
Posted on 15 November 2008
KUALA LUMPUR: Starting next Monday, police will be knocking on the doors of errant motorists in a nationwide traffic crackdown. Traffic offenders, issued a total of 96,000 arrest warrants between May and October this year, will be tracked down by police in Ops Warta VII.
Some 4,000 traffic policemen will be on duty during the operation.
Federal [...]
Tags: Traffic cops to make house calls
Posted on 15 November 2008
MANCHESTER: Manchester United have warned Stoke City that they are ready to fight fire with fire in order to get their Premier League title bid back on track today.
United, beaten by Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in their last league outing, have fallen eight points behind joint leaders Chelsea and Liverpool.
And Stoke arrive at Old [...]
Tags: Bolt bags male athlete of the year award
Posted on 15 November 2008
(From left) V. Marimuthu, Mohd Faqeem Aswad, Azrizan Ahmad, Mohd Fadzwin Che Halim and Ken Barnes.
A STINT with English Premier League side Wigan Athletic beckons but lack of funds could see three young Malaysian footballers missing the opportunity.
Members of the Kangar-based Ken Barnes Football Academy, Azrizan Ahmad, 17, from Langkawi and Perlis boys [...]
Tags: Football: Trio in danger of missing Wigan