Eileen Ng, TMI The plan by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) to stop Christians from using the word “Allah” appears to be a plan to persecute the minority, said a Christian legal…

Looi Sue-Chern, TMI Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng continued to defend the state’s purchase of a Mercedes-Benz for use as his official car. The most important thing about buying the new…

(Harakah) - There is one thing glaringly missing from the 11 cost-cutting measures on public sector expenditure announced by Prime Minister Najib Razak that caught the attention of a PAS leader.…

(Harakah) - Prime Minister Najib Razak’s pathetic measures to cut public expenditure have somewhat irked Rafizi Ramli into giving a public lecture to the former on what should have been done.…

Yiswaree Palansamy, TMI The former Johor Sultanah, Tuanku Zanariah Tunku Ahmad, has filed an application in the Syariah Court to set aside an earlier court order that her late husband Sultan…

Jason Ng, WSJ What does it matter how you dress? Well one state in Malaysia cares, at least for those who are Muslim. The Pahang state in Malaysia’s east coast has outlawed “cross…

(AFP) - Thousands of demonstrators clad in black flooded a square in the centre of the Malaysian capital late Tuesday to protest at increases in petrol and other prices, putting pressure on a…

By Boo Su-Lyn, The Malay Mail Umno Selangor is threatening to protest outside all churches in Selangor this Sunday unless a senior Catholic priest apologises over his remark insisting on the…

(TMT) - Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng swapped his two-month old Toyota Camry for a new Mercedes-Benz as his official car and straightaway drove himself into a controversy. Politicians and…

(Bernama) - Police nabbed a local man with a homemade bomb in Taman Halaman, Ampang, Sunday, which is believed intended to be used on the eve of New Year. Selangor Police deputy chief DCP Datuk…

(MM) - Datuk Seri Najib Razak needs to employ new advisers who can provide the prime minister with fresher ideas on governance, Umno MP Datuk Nur Jazlan Mohamed suggested today. The Pulai MP…

(MM) - Datin Paduka Marina Mahathir suggested today a 5 per cent salary cut for ministers and deputy ministers, saying the nation’s leaders should share the pain of ordinary Malaysians facing a…

(MM) - The Najib administration could save a whole lot more by shaving 30 per cent off car excise duties and maintaining the current highway toll rates, PKR’s Rafizi Ramli said today. In…

(MMO) - The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) will target the Chinese and the youths in its publicity campaign next year, after a recent survey here showed that nearly half of the two…

It is the constitutional right of any Malaysian to assemble peacefully in public, whether in celebration or in protest, says Bar Council president Christopher Leong Ikhwan Zulkaflee, FMT…

V. Anbalagan, TMI The DAP has turned the tables on the Registrar of Societies (RoS), giving it 14 days to withdraw its decision not to recognise the CEC elected in September or face the next…

V. Anbalagan, TMI Retired police officer Datuk Mat Zain Ibrahim is not letting up the pressure on Tan Sri Muhammad Shafee Abdullah (pic) as he lodged another report against the Umno lawyer for…

(CNN) - With Perkasa’s secretary-general admitting to receiving funds from several government agencies, DAP’s Lim Kit Siang demanded today Putrajaya disclose the sum and justify to Malaysians the…

(MM) - The leaders of Malay rights group Perkasa had previously benefited from Umno when they were then part of the political party’s leadership, Tan Sri Isa Samad has said. In noting Perkasa’s…

BN party PBB has slammed Chegu Bard for bringing into Sarawak peninsular styled theatrics William Mangor, FMT KUCHING: A much touted anti-Taib protest organised by peninsular-based…

(Malay Mail) - Amid calls for the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) to probe the prime minister’s stepson’s reported purchase of a RM110 million apartment in New York, the anti-graft…

Sarawak has once again shown the rest of the nation the real meaning of religious tolerance and racial harmony through the handling of a temple in Kuching which places the Quran and Muslim prayer…

(Bernama) - Some 70 members of the Selangor Pertubuhan Pribumi Perkasa Malaysia (Perkasa), led by their president, Abu Bakar Yahya, staged a peaceful protest infront of the Shah Alam district…

(Bernama) - Police view the case of an email, purportedly sent by Abdul Rahim Ghouse (pic, left), a close friend of Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, to Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) director of strategy,…

(MM) - The Church can take the Selangor Islamic authorities to court for prohibiting Christians from referring to God as “Allah” in their religious practices as such a ban is unconstitutional,…

Trinna Leong, TMI The Selangor menteri besar must direct the state religious authorities to act against churches using the word “Allah”, said Umno Selangor. State Umno liaison secretary…

(MM) - Youth movement Solidariti Anak Muda Malaysia (SAMM) announced today plans to sue a senior police officer for linking it with a plot to topple Putrajaya on December 31. The group urged…

(TMI) - An email titled “C For Chaos” to incite a rally on New Year’s Eve was sent by the opposition, alleged Umno-backed daily Utusan Malaysia. The email allegedly written by Abdul Rahim…

(MM) - PKR MP Rafizi Ramli slammed the police today for summoning him for questioning over the allegedly fabricated claims of a bomb plot for New Year’s Eve, instead of pro-Umno bloggers. The…

(MM) - Foreign workers’ overseas remittances totalling almost RM20 billion last year would have increased Malaysia’s per capita income by RM714 to RM33,916 if Malaysians had earned the wages…