PERDANA Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (dua dari kiri) menjulang tangan pemimpin-pemimpin Umno selepas perjumpaan dengan Jentera BN Pilihan Raya Kerusi Parlimen Kuala Terengganu, hari ini. Dari kiri Ketua Penerangan Umno, Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib; calon BN, Datuk Wan Ahmad Farid Wan Salleh; Menteri Besar Terengganu, Dato’ Ahmad Said dan Naib Presiden Umno, [...]

PETALING JAYA: Bekas Ketua Setiausaha Kementerian Tanah dan Pembangunan Koperasi Malaysia, Datuk Yidris Abdullah menafikan peletakan jawatan Yang Dipertua (YDP) Angkatan Koperasi Kebangsaan Malaysia (Angkasa), Profesor Diraja Ungku Aziz semalam adalah disebabkan saranannya yang meminta Ungku Aziz berundur secara hormat daripada jawatan itu. Yidris berkata, menurut sumber yang diketahuinya, peletakan jawatan Ungku Aziz semalam adalah [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Kenyataan Ketua Umum Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim yang menegaskan hukum hudud hanya terpakai kepada orang Islam dan bukannya di seluruh negara adalah mengelirukan, kata Pengerusi DAP Karpal Singh hari ini. “Kenyataan oleh Ketua Umum PKR, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, bahawa tidak perlu menolak hukum hudud kerana ia hanya terpakai [...]

MANY people have been complaining of high electricity bills ever since Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) introduced a new method of tabulating power usage recently. “My bill has increased tremendously ever since the new tariff was introduced. All my children are students and need to use the computer and printer which increases the bill,” housewife K. [...]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Several rockets fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel on Thursday, slightly wounding two people, police and medics said, in attacks seen as linked to Israel’s war on Hamas Islamists in the Gaza Strip. Israel hit back after a first salvo with artillery shells in what an Israeli army spokesman described as “a [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: As if it was not enough to be raped by her employer, an 18-year-old maid from Sabah was also beaten up by the wife when she found out about it. Unable to take the abuse anymore, the girl escaped from the condominium unit in Batu Caves when her employers were out and lodged [...]

LUMUT: One hundred and fifty-five National Service (NS) trainees at the Teluk Rubiah camp here came down with food poisoning Thursday and were rushed to the Seri Manjung Hospital. They were brought to the hospital at 7.20am after suffering from stomach ache, diarrhoea and vomiting following a meal of chicken chop at the canteen of [...]

Perak’s Mohd Fauzi Ariffin (on ground) tries to block Selangor’s Mohd Amirul Hadi Zainal in their Malaysian Super League match on Tuesday. Selangor won 3-1. Pic: MOHD YUSNI ARIFFIN DESPITE a three-month break, officials appointed by the FAM found the Sultan Mahmud Stadium field in Kota Baru unmarked and grass uncut for the Malaysian Super [...]

Hafiz Hashim also advanced to the next round yesterday. Pic: MOHD YUSNI ARIFFIN WORLD No 1 Lee Chong Wei, as usual, went through his customary early struggle before finishing with a flourish, but it was back-up shuttler Liew Daren who stole the thunder by toppling Thailand’s No 1 Boonsak Ponsana in the Proton Malaysia Open [...]

LONDON: Rafael Benitez has suggested he will resist the temptation to add to his squad this month by emphasising his belief that his current squad can deliver a first league title in 19 years. The Spanish manager has been linked with a move to bring former Liverpool striker Emile Heskey back to Anfield but there [...]