By Sim Kwang Yang / SKY By the time you read this, on Tuesday April 7, 2009, the fierce campaigns at the two Bukits and the one Batang would have been over, as voters queue up to cast their precious…

(The Star) (8:50am) Bkt Gantang: Barisan Nasional candidate Ismail Saffian arrives at SM Panglima Bukit Gantang to cast his vote, to resounding cheers from his supporters.

Najib Tun Razak, only days being premier, is already being condescending and patronising to the media: Najib wants fair and responsible media. Indeed!

6 buah bas dikepung malam dan subuh tadi. 4 di pekan Kuala Trong, 1 di CALTEX Trong (NBY 9977) dan 1 di simpang Plaza Tol Changkat Jering (BHQ 5155). Semua bas itu dilindungi oleh abang botak yang…

By Shanon Shah (The Nut Graph)SUNGAI PETANI, 6 Apr 2009: Four Pakatan Rakyat (PR) state assemblypersons will defect if the Barisan Nasional (BN) wins the Bukit Selambau by-election tomorrow, claimed…

By Debra Chong (The Malaysian Insider) TAIPING, April 6 — It was four hours to midnight on the eve of polling day when campaigners were making last ditched attempts to curry votes with the…

(NST) POLITICAL wit and manoeuvring came to the fore during the nine-day campaign period in this Iban hinterland.

By Karen Arukesamy (The Sun)KUALA LUMPUR (April 6, 2009): Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak today reiterated the need to renew democracy in the country to ensure that institutions, parties…

(The Malaysian Insider) KUALA LUMPUR, April 6 — A victim of conspiracy theories, rumours and innuendoes, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak tonight asked for fairness and respect in reporting while…

(Bernama) - Remand prisoner A Kugan died of swelling or fluid build-up in the lungs, due to acute inflammation of the heart muscle compounded by blunt force trauma, an independent committee…

(Associated Press) - Malaysia's new prime minister urged the local media on Monday to criticize the government "without fear," but stopped short of saying if he would remove the annual…

(Hrkh) - Ketua Penerangan KeADILan, Tian Chua mengutuk sekeras-kerasnya tindakan Suruhanjaya Pilihan Raya (SPR) yang jelas tidak profesional dan sengaja menyusun prosedur-prosedur pengundian untuk…

There are a few actions taken by the newly installed PM Najib Tun Rajak which are calculated to moderate his image: releasing about a doz of ISA detainees, including 2 of the 5 Hindraf leaders;…

Tengahari semalam, sekumpulan petugas dari Biro Kemasyarakatan PKR Pusat yang di pimpin oleIh YB Gobalakrishnan telah pergi kekawasan Taman Bandar Baru untuk program merayu undi dari rumah ke rumah.

Pada 6 April 2009, jam 4.20 petang rombongan jentera pilihanraya KEADILAN yang terdiri daripada enam orang ahli Srikandi KEADILAN telah diganggu secara seksual dan diperlakukan secara kasar oleh…

They are reading the writing on the wall. They are not very bothered with Batang Ai.

You might disagree, but to me it is still tough to call whether Bukit Gantang will go to Umno or remain with PAS. See my previous mullings here.

Reme Ahmad takes out his crystal-ball ahead of M'sia's by-elections So, my crystal ball says, while the final score is difficult to determine, Batang Ai may go to BN, Bukit Selambau to…

P59 Bukit Gantang By-Election Results (Final)PAS - 20,929BN -17,646Ind - 60Spoilt - 345

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Almost all major newspaper and online media quoted Muhyuddin Yassin about the new way of the BN government would be dealing with the rakyat.

For me the BN ceramah in Simpang with featured guest speaker Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad (who had applied to rejoin Umno 24 hours earlier) was a tiny glimpse of hell on earth.

They've got nearly unlimited financial resources to support their campaign, built instant development and bribe the voters. If they don't win tomorrow then we'll know that the people is…

By Neville Spykerman, The Malaysian Insider All files, pictures and samples in relation to A. Kugan, who died in custody, were seized by police from a hospital which had carried out a second post…

Despite their mounting dissatisfaction with the BN’s performance over the years, the older generation among the rural Malay community appear to have softened their stance, which may signal their…

Umno/BN has worked day and night to instill this perception of Nizar among Malay voters who form 63 per cent of the 55,000 voters in the hope that rural Malays might see him as a Chinese stooge and…

Changes his mind after returning to Umno By Deborah Loh (The Nut Graph) TAIPING, 6 April 2009: Only last month did Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad say that Barisan Nasional (BN)'s takeover of Perak was…

The BN claims it does not practise discrimination in dishing out projects. Oh yeah? Read these news snippets and form your own conclusions.

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