PETALING JAYA: Pengendali dan editor laman web Malaysia Today, Raja Petra Raja Kamarudin belum memikirkan soal sama ada hendak menyaman kerajaan kerana menahannya di bawah Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri (ISA) selama 52 hari sejak 12 September lalu. Ketika dihubungi, Raja Petra yang turut dikenali sebagai RPK berkata, beliau belum lagi membuat sebarang keputusan mengenainya kerana [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim), Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abd Aziz menafikan wujud masalah dalam memutuskan status senaman yoga oleh Majlis Fatwa berikutan pandangan sesetengah pihak yang menyatakan senaman itu tidak mempunyai unsur meditasi. Justeru, beliau berkata, fatwa mengenai status amalan yoga akan tetap diumumkan, akan dibuat sendiri oleh Pengerusi Majlis [...]

PETALING JAYA: Ketua Pengarah Jabatan Kemajuan Islam Malaysia (Jakim), Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abd Aziz menyifatkan hasrat Gerakan Reformis Rakyat Malaysia (Reformis) yang mengancam untuk berbogel sebagai tanda protes kepada kerajaan Selangor sebagai “miskin idea dan tidak waras.” Beliau berkata, orang yang bijaksana akan memprotes dengan cara lain yang melambangkan kewarasan dan berasaskan etika. “Ada [...]

GEORGE TOWN: Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng wants former executive councillor Dr Teng Hock Nan to explain how RM225mil in the Seberang Prai Municipal Council’s coffers (MPSP) “disappeared” in six years. “Imagine in six years, RM225mil gone. Next year, we have to spend RM160mil for expenses but we (only) have RM145mil revenue which means the [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: More money to use now means less for one’s retirement. This is the dilemma Employees Provident Fund contributors face should they decide to opt to have their monthly contribution reduced from the mandatory 11% to the “voluntary” 8%. The government’s decision to adopt this measure to help Malaysians tide the rise in prices [...]

SEMPORNA: A plan to build Malay­sia’s first and biggest oceana­rium resort of luxury chalets in Mabul, in the east coast of Sabah, is facing a wave of opposition. Environmentalists, villagers and dive operators warn that the proposed project on a 33ha parcel of shallows will bring disaster to Mabul marine life and may also degrade [...]

GEORGE TOWN: The state government wants to know why the rental fee of RM200,000 was not collected before the groundwork for the Kings of Tennis event was allowed at the Esplanade field. Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng said the state Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which is launching an inquiry into the cancellation of the much-touted [...]

GEORGE TOWN: The Bayan Baru Umno Youth division has lodged a police report against Penang Deputy Chief Minister P. Ramasamy over his alleged remarks that Malays dominated the state civil service. Division Youth chief Norman Zahalan said the statement had racial undertones and could spark racial misunderstandings. Speaking to reporters after lodging a report at [...]

GEORGE TOWN: A man was made to stand in public for more than 30 minutes with a “Saya Pencuri (I Am a Thief)” placard around his neck for allegedly stealing a helmet from a Chinese sinseh at his clinic in Jalan Air Itam here. The sinseh made the man, in his 40s, stand outside his [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: The report on the probe into the Port Klang Free Zone PKFZ) scandal will be made public soon by Transport Minister Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat. Ong said the report, which had to fulfil some conditions imposed by the Finance Ministry, was now ready to be handed over to him. “I will be [...]