(The Malaysian Insider) - The Election Commission today fixed nomination day for the vacant Bukit Gantang parliamentary seat and Bukit Selambau state seat simultaneously for March 29. If this is a…

Lessons from PerakIf this is a democracy, shouldn't people be ruled by their choices during an election rather than by the fickle-mindedness of elected representatives?By Jacqueline Ann Surin,…

The road to nationhood has not been an easy journey. Surprises and disappointments, tension and crisis, have marred the way.Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah

G. MANIMARAN dan ARIFFUDDIN ISHAK, mStar Online Pilihan raya kecil bagi dua kerusi di Perak dan Kedah ditentukan hari ini dengan dijangkakan diadakan awal bulan depan.

By Debra Chong - The Malaysian InsiderControversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin will be tried for criminal defamation in the Sessions Court, the High Court ruled today.

(NST) PETALING JAYA: Abdul Razak Baginda instigated two police officers to kill Mongolian beauty Altantuya Shaariibuu, a police officer told the Sessions Court yesterday.

By Kang Siew Li (NST)The country's biggest toll operator PLUS Expressways Bhd is likely to raise toll rates by five per cent -- half the scheduled rates -- from next month.

(The Malaysian Insider) GENEVA, Feb 12 — Several Western nations took Malaysia to task yesterday over its treatment of asylum seekers and refugees at an United Nations human rights record…

By Mazlinda Mahmood (NST)Missing Port Klang assemblyman Badrul Hisham Abdullah surfaced yesterday to stop rumours that he was lying low to prepare to defect from the Parti Keadilan Rakyat.

By Neville Spykerman (The Malaysian Insider)After losing Perak to cross-overs, Pakatan Rakyat is scrambling to quash rumours of defections in Selangor as their Port Klang assemblyman Badrul Hisham…

(NST) - The list of possible Parti Keadilan Rakyat candidates for the Bukit Selambau state seat got longer yesterday with the inclusion of detained Hindu Rights Action Force leader K. Vasantha Kumar. …

(The Straits Times) — The political stand-off in Perak is unlikely to end soon as opposition coalition Pakatan Rakyat keeps up the pressure despite former Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Nizar…

By Lee Wei Lian (The Malaysian Insider)Pakatan Rakyat senior state executive councillor Datuk Ngeh Koo Ham today slammed a New Straits Times report quoting judicial sources that called its suit to…

By Lee Wei Lian (The Malaysian Insider) IPOH, Feb 12 — Datuk Seri Nizar Jamaluddin, who maintains he is still Perak mentri besar, will file suit tomorrow to declare illegal the government…

By John Lee (The Malaysian Insider)FEB 13 — Poor Barisan Nasional. No matter what, in the eyes of Malaysians, Barisan can do no right.

By John Teo (NST)AS the economy looks headed, like everywhere else, into a marked slowdown and as our politics seems mired in uncertainty almost a year after the last general election, I, for one,…

By Khoo Kay Peng (The Malaysian Insider)FEB 13 — There is one thing I like about DAP chairman Karpal Singh — his bluntness. Karpal is calling a spade a spade when he openly demanded that…

In all the hub-hub, and rightly so, about the crisis in Perak, one story that had gone somewhat un-dissected has been the resignation of three high-ranking office-bearers of the Malaysian…

That chants for death and vengeance can be made in public like this and at a demonstration led by a politician said to have been educated at Oxford suggests that Malaysian politics has reached a new…

The Merdeka Centre research firm said that 66 percent of Perak residents it surveyed disapproved of using defectors to form a new government.The Straits Times

By Debra Chong, The Malaysian Insider A key witness in the sedition trial of controversial Malaysia Today blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin was accused of being a “compulsive liar” in court…

In tandem with the rapid fire developments in Perak, the media itself is also being cast an intriguing role. Even whilst it reports, it has become a topic reported about too.

The current tussle between the Sultan of Perak and his Pakatan Chief Minister is not the first, nor will it be the last, such crises in the country.

A new billboard in KL has sparked speculation over Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi’s political future.

(Reuters) KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S deputy premier Najib Razak will take over as Prime Minister from Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on March 31, an influential news website reported on Wednesday.

(Bernama) PETALING JAYA, 12 Feb 2009: Bukit Aman-based National/Interpol Bureau Centre assistant director DSP Gan Tack Guan told the Sessions Court here today that no investigations had been conducted…

By Deborah [email protected]<!-- Printer Friendly Format -->IPOH, 12 Feb 2009: Pakatan Rakyat is going to give up the Perak Menteri Besar's official residence and the official…

(The Edge) - More and more police reports are being lodged against DAP chairman Karpal Singh following his decision to sue the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah, with regard to the political scenario…

(The Star) - The Kedah Royal Household Association (PKDK) is proposing the Sultan of Perak, Sultan Azlan Shah, ban DAP national chairman Karpal Singh from entering the state.

(The Sun): The Federal Court here today reserved decision in an appeal by Parti Bersatu Rakyat Sabah (PBRS) president Tan Sri Joseph Kurup to quash the nullification of his election to the Pensiangan…