A MOTION to dock RM10 from Education Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein’s salary turned into a shouting match, with a Barisan Nasional backbencher using unparliamentary language against his opposition counterparts. During the debate on a motion by Teo Nie Ching (DAP-Serdang) to cut the minister’s pay for failing to fulfil his promises regarding vernacular schools, [...]

SEREMBAN, WED: Blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin has been described as being ignorant of history for assuming that the former secretary-general of the Communist Party of Malaya, Chin Peng, was a freedom fighter. Negeri Sembilan History Association treasurer Mohd Misan Mastor said today the Malays had fought colonialism since the fall of Melaka Sultanate and throughout [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: One out of 10 MyKad issued in the country is faulty. Home Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar said of the 24 million MyKad issued so far, 2.2 million were found to be faulty in terms of quality. He said when MyKad was introduced in 2001, 32,670 MyKad holders had complained that their [...]

KUANTAN: A person’s position in the party should not affect his post in the government, Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Adnan Yaakob said. “The position in the (state) government is determined by the chief minister and the ruler. “Now, you can buy a position in a political party. So, we cannot use that as a yardstick [...]

SUNGAI BULOH: A policeman who brought home his service pistol, which resulted his 15-year-old son allegedly shooting his mother, did not contravene procedures. Deputy Gombak police chief Superintendent Rosly Hassan said as a detective sergeant in the crimes division, the policeman was permitted to take his gun home. “His action (in taking the gun home) [...]

KLANG: A port supervisor was charged at the Sessions Court here yesterday with bribing a marine police officer. Chu Say Seng, 46, pleaded not guilty to bribing Assistant Superintendent Mohd Khai-ruddin Jamal as an incentive not to arrest three Indonesians believed to be his workers and not to take action over the seizure of handphones [...]

TANAH MERAH: The authorities have called off a three-day search for a 67-year-old nursery farm worker who was believed to have slipped and fell into a river. A police spokesman said the family of Deraman Pit, from Kampung Kajang, near here, lodged a report after he failed to return home from the nursery in Kampung [...]

KOTA BARU: The Sessions Court yesterday ordered a 41-year-old school canteen operator charged with raping a mentally-handicapped woman to stay away from her village while the case was under way. Judge Che Mohamad Zulkifly Jusoh set this condition after allowing RM10,000 bail for Alwalid Abdul Kadir from Kampung Pangkal Berangan, Kelaweh, Machang. Alwalid pleaded not [...]

PETALING JAYA: A Thai man who was slashed to death and thrown into a pond by robbers at Fasa 1 in Sungai Buloh on Tuesday, had been sodomised before he was murdered. District deputy police chief Supt Mohd Shukor Sulong said the victim has been identified as 23-year-old Mohd Kamil Karim or Sollah from Pattani. [...]

THE Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI) will investigate the practice of yoga in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world, before issuing an edict on it. MUI’s investigation, which will begin this week, was triggered by the edict issued by Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council and media enquiries. “We are investigating the [...]