DAP backs Husam's call for citizens' suit

Harakahdaily   KUALA LUMPUR, May 6: DAP has backed a proposal by Kelantan Exco member Husam Musa for a citizens' suit against the Federal Government over  the signing away of two oil-rich offshore blocks in South China Sea to Brune...

Let's take govt to court: Husam to all Malaysians

Harakahdaily KOTA BHARU, May 5: Kelantan Exco member Husam Musa (pic) has proposed a citizen civil suit against the Malaysian government for giving up jurisdiction over the oil-rich blocks L and M to Brune...

Kit Siang slams IGP, CPO for trial by media in boy’s shooting death

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal KUALA LUMPUR, May 6 — DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang accused Inspector-General of Police Tan Sri Musa Hassan and Selangor Chief of Police Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar of starting a “trial by media” after they portrayed 14-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah as a “crimina...

DAP questions need for nuke power

By Asrul Hadi Abdullah SaniThe DAP secretary-general questioned the necessity of the nuclear plant as Malaysia only requires a 20 per cent energy reser...

Selangor says no to nuclear power

by Meena L. Ramadas SHAH ALAM (May 5, 2010) : The Selangor government will not allow or support the construction of a nuclear power plant in the stat...

Sultans and mosques: Decree or puppetry?

Renowned constitutional law expert Abdul Aziz Bari sheds some light on the motivation behind the sudden resurgence in the role of Malay rulers’ as the head of Islam, long left unpractised, yet suddenly re-appearing under questionable circumstanc...

Obama’s nuclear hypocrisy exposed

Zafar Bangash   International conferences are useful only if they are guided by honesty and transparency....

1Malaysia through 'good-cop-bad-cop' strategy

Li Fook Gao   We shout from the side to tell the players what to do and what not to do. We feel frustrated when the players do not respo...

Nuke plant jolts environmentalists

By Lee Wei Lian KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 — Environmentalists and alternative energy producers have criticised the approval for Malaysia’s first nuclear power plant, saying it was rushed through without adequate public consultation given the risks of radioactivit...

With young boy’s death, Pakatan seen pushing multiracial platform

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal KUALA LUMPUR, May 5 — Pakatan Rakyat is trying to burnish its credentials as a multiracial platform with DAP chairman Karpal Singh’s appointment as legal counsel for the family of dead schoolboy, Aminulrasyid Amz...

Kit Siang: IGP should resign

By Boo Su-LynKUALA LUMPUR, May 4 — Tan Sri Musa Hassan should resign as Inspector-General of Police (IGP) over the police shooting of 14-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah, said Lim Kit Siang tod...

Boy disputes police version of Aminul shooting

Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani and Neville SpykermanSHAH ALAM, May 3 — Fourteen-year-old Aminulrasyid Amzah did not try to ram policemen with his sister’s car but was still shot in the back of his head, his friend Azamuddin Omar, 15, who was the lone passenger in the car, said tod...

PAS denies plotting Pak Lah’s downfall

By Debra ChongKUALA LUMPUR, May 4 — PAS today distanced itself from blogger Kickdefella’s (pic)allegations that it was behind a RM4 million plot to topple former prime minister Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi since 20...

Kit Siang slams Najib, Pak Lah for ‘evading’ Limbang, oil blocks issue

By Shazwan Mustafa KamalKUALA LUMPUR, May 2 — Lim Kit Siang today accused Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his predecessor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi of “evading” the issue on the sovereignty of Limbang as well as two disputed oil blocks off Born...

Students laud move to make teenagers get home at prescribed hour

thestar.com.my PETALING JAYA: Several secondary school students have lauded the suggestion to impose a national curfew for teenagers in an effort to curb juvenile crime and to keep youths saf...