Whether they were institutions or individuals, their defeats have been total, crushing, humiliating. They have been consigned to political oblivion; reduced to non-existence.

More expected to leave as Najib erects his own inner circle of power By Hazlin Hassan, Malaysia Correspondent KUALA LUMPUR: Two businessmen close to Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi are quitting their…

Datuk Najib Tun Razak mendapat 28 pencalonan untuk jawatan presiden manakala Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin mendapatkan 23 pencalonan untuk jawatan timbalan presiden.

PETALING JAYA: Parlimen bersidang hari ini selepas berehat lebih sebulan dengan fokus menjadi tumpuan ke arah Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dan beberapa perkembangan yang berlaku sejak awal September.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Bar Council has urged the government to amend the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce ) Act 1976 to allow Muslim converts to dissolve their civil marriage in the High Court.

Kota Kinabalu: The notion that the Home Minister had "restored" or "granted" the citizenship of natives like in the case of Yong Lee Hua is "absolutely ridiculous".

Penampang: The United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (Upko) wants the Government to quell feelings of insecurity among a large section of the population who worry that the guarantee of…

GERAKAN may want to project a more multi-racial image, but this was not reflected in the results of its elections over the weekend as nearly all the winners were Chinese.

KUALA LUMPUR: Going by his timeline for the establishment of a new government, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim should now be prime minister and today's sitting of Parliament would probably be looking at…

by R. Nadeswaran and Terence Fernandez The tourism minister’s office has excess baggage. It’s over-staffed and the appointment of some 20 staff contravenes the Public Services…

PETALING JAYA: The Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) will only consider being a direct member of Barisan Nasional if its leaders are released from the Internal Security Act (ISA).

KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim does not want to reveal the new date in which he proposes to take over the Federal Government.

Hampir sebulan selepas Raja Petra Kamarudin (RPK) ditahan dibawah ISA, masih belum ada tanda-tanda protes dan sokongan terhadapnya akan berakhir.

I got to the PJ Club just before 7.30pm. Had agreed to meet Bernard and Gan there.

Do you recognise this man (picture below), if you were to see him on the street? You should. On the back of this man who got things for himself on a silver platter, or on the back of hefty…

From tonight onwards, Team RPK said there will be an Anti-ISA Candle-light Vigil at the padang behind A&W, next to Taman Jaya Putra LRT, starting 8pm. More and more people are starting to…

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 (Bernama) -- Parti Gerakan Rakyat Malaysia, which concluded its all-important three-day national delegates conference on Sunday, has charted its resurrection with president Tan…

Pakatan Rakyat (PR) MPs will call for a review of Budget 2009 in the Dewan Rakyat tomorrow, now that the government has a new Finance Minister in Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul…

KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIAN opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said he will call for a review of the country's 2009 budget when parliament reconvenes on Monday, saying it had become…

By ROYCE CHEAH, The StarKUALA LUMPUR: The Cheras Umno division has started a fund to assist Utusan Malaysia in defending itself against a RM30mil defamation lawsuit filed by Seputeh MP Teresa Kok.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 12 - Gerakan president Tan Sri Dr Koh Tsu Koon today suggested that the Barisan Nasional (BN) set up a special task force to review the Internal Security Act (ISA), Printing Presses…

OCT 12 - In almost every major political and social conflict in Malaysia, the protagonists will almost always use "facts" to support their arguments. Case in point: for years many people…

OCT 12 - So, Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi has finally announced he will be stepping down. While this is undoubtedly going to be greeted with cheers from many, I see no particular reason to rejoice.

Another KABOOM???Read through the letters ...

"A new generation of young, well educated and better informed Malaysians has emerged. People are not stupid or ill-informed, so BN must learn to explain its policies better. The most important…

ONE of Malaysia's most well-known and often controversial media bosses has fired a broadside at Umno and Malaysian politics.Datuk Seri Kalimullah Hassan, deputy chairman of the New Straits Times…

By Helen AngAn alert should go out to embassies in Kuala Lumpur cautioning foreign nationals. The updated travel advisory:(1) Open houses in Malaysia are possibly illegal,(2) If a tourist should…

THINGS do not always work out the way we want them to. Take the case of moral education in schools. Moral education was introduced to create a society of well-behaved and principled people, with the…

By Tan Sri Bernard Dompok, The Nut GraphExcerpts of the speech by United Pasokmomogun Kadazandusun Murut Organisation (Upko) president Tan Sri Bernard Dompok at the party's annual general…

Two recent news items tucked inconspicuously in the mainstream papers caught my attention. One was a column by Shad Saleem Faruqi (“Test Case On Right To Sue Sultans,” The Star,…