Fuel cost burdens airlines

By Joy Lee, The Edge KUALA LUMPUR: High fuel cost continues to weigh on airlines as low-cost carrier AirAsia Bhd saw its 2QFY11 net profit shrink 48% year-on-year (y-o-y) while national carrier…

Vell Paari’s Aussie firm crisis

Claims of misappropriation of funds, missing files, non-payment of salaries  (The Malay Mail) - An internal financial crackdown of MIC central working committee member S. Vell Paari’s Western…

BN pushing the panic button

When austerity is the name of the game, it does not look particularly good when billions are handed out at the drop of a hat. Furthermore, the announcement that the first Volkswagen cars to be…

Did Malaysia’s Anwar Say too Much?

Najib and Rosmah: Was this their idea? He says accuser acknowledged readying himself for sexThat sentence would tend to invalidate any assumption that the then-60-year-old Anwar suddenly forced…

MACC, police are a disgrace

“Have you not noticed how deputy president Liow Tiong Lai and youth chief Wee Ka Siong are scrambling to be seen in the company of Muhyiddin as frequently as possible?By Lee Kee

Royal link in iron ore plant

Ex-MB Nizar says this has everything to do with the sacrifice of public interest There is a royal link in the controversial project to build an iron ore plant in Teluk Rubiah, Manjung, and one…

A neighbour underestimated

 By Karim Raslan, The Star The buoyant statistics coming out of East Kalimantan underline the extent to which the once-poor neighbour has eclipsed Sabah. And until Sabahans can exorcise their…

Anwar Assails Malaysian Officials, Court

By James Hookway, Wall Street Journal Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim used his ongoing sodomy trial Monday to deliver a stinging attack accusing the judge and the government of Prime…

Malaysian Opposition Leader Begins Defense

By Liz Gooch, New York Times KUALA LUMPUR — The Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim  began his defense in his sodomy trial on Monday, declaring the charges “a vile and despicable attempt at…

Analyst say GE likely to be held in Nov

 By Kong See Hoh, The Sun Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak (pix)’s remark on Friday that the next general election can be held anytime and is not bound by the works of the Parliamentary…

Global protests a threat to BN?

 By Clare Rewcastle Brown, FMT No country is an island in this global era and 2011 has not been a comfortable year for a regime like Barisan Nasional, which is seeking to perpetuate half a century…