KLANG: With many controversial issues arising here, Klang's situation seems to be as murky as the river that splits it in half.

By Little BirdAbout three weeks ago, the Government secretly set up an Inter-Ministerial Action Council. This is just a long winded name for 'Media Manipulation'. This inter ministerial…

THE Malaysian blogosphere is entering the election fray, with bloggers reporting that they had met up to discuss their strategies and the candidates they would endorse.

By Tay Tian Yan, The Straits TimesDECIDING when is the right time to act is never easy, especially when it comes to elections. But for Premier Abdullah Badawi, this may be as good a time as any to…

PRIME Minister Abdullah Badawi yesterday fired his first shots at the opposition since announcing the elections.

Fierce competition among candidates as Abdullah has promised changesBy Leslie Lopez, South-east Asia Correspondent, THE STRAITS TIMES

KUALA LUMPUR: Indeks jenayah yang meningkat tahun lepas sebanyak 7.12 peratus atau 14,910 kes kepada 224,298 kes berbanding tahun sebelumnya sebanyak 209,388 kes, merupakan cabaran utama pasukan…

POLICE moved in to escort Malaysian Indian Congress president S. Samy Vellu away after he was surrounded by a jeering crowd at a ground-breaking ceremony for a Tamil school in Petaling Jaya on…

Much is at stake as Malaysians go to the polls, judging from the views of columnists yesterday. We reproduce excerpts from two such commentaries, published in a major English-language daily and a…

3 parties agree to field single candidates in most constituencies

Jakarta urged to investigate report that KL paramilitary in Borneo recruiting IndonesiansBy Devi Asmarani, Indonesia Correspondent, The Straits Times

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 14, 2008): People's Progressive Party (PPP) president Datuk M. Kayveas wants the leaders of MCA, Gerakan and MIC to act gentlemanly, honour their words and return the seats…

Written by Kazi Mahmood, WORLD FUTURES While the government armed itself with a comprehensive manifesto, the opposition failed again to produce a united manifesto that could have influenced the…

PUTRAJAYA: The Anti-Corruption Agency will make an application to the Royal Commission of Inquiry tomorrow to clear its name in the wake of testimony that it had paid a witness to close a 1998…

Imran Imtiaz Shah Yacob, ASIA SENTINELThe opposition has a vast panoply of legitimate grievances, but the ruling national coalition has the money and the resources.

GEORGE TOWN: Gerakan, with help from its Barisan Nasional partners, is set to fend off another attempt by DAP and its allies to grab its crown jewel and power base in Penang.

GEORGE TOWN: The DAP plans to put up its strongest ever line-up in Penang in its bid to make inroads here, party secretary general Lim Guan Eng said yesterday.

SEREMBAN: MIC vice-president Datuk S. Sothinathan has rubbished claims that more than 3,000 members from his Teluk Kemang division have left to join the Peoples Progressive Party.

KUALA LUMPUR: The Barisan Nasional decided yesterday to maintain the status quo in the allocation of seats among component parties.

MIRI: An environmental group is concerned that some 77,000sq kilometres of central Sarawak would be developed under the Sarawak Renewable Energy Corridor (SCORE).

Sekiranya Abdullah berhajat untuk mempertahankan dirinya maka beliau memerlukan seseorang pada ketika itu. Satu-satu orang yang boleh diajak untuk menjadi benteng kepadanya ialah Anwar Ibrahim. Anwar…

KUALA LUMPUR: The public have been advised to stay away from the gathering planned by the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) at Parliament House tomorrow.

THE Barisan Nasional is a friend of the Chinese community and they and the Indians should vote for the coalition in the general election, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak told the…

KOTA KINABALU: A Kitingan versus Kitingan battle is shaping up in interior Sabah, if two brothers keep to their word and contest the indigenous Keningau parliamentary seat.

SUNGAI PETANI: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) plans to contest in 18 seats in Kedah, twice the number contested by the then Parti Keadilan Nasional in the 2004 general election before its merger with…

KUALA LUMPUR: Three opposition parties have agreed that no one party will be given more than half of the total number of parliament or state seats which the Opposition is contesting.

PETALING JAYA: Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) legal adviser and human rights activist P. Uthayakumar will not contest in the general election.

KUALA LUMPUR: Even an army will not be able to stop MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu from defending his Sungai Siput seat.

KUALA LUMPUR: The seat allocation among Barisan Nasional partners remains as they were in the last general election but mutual seat swapping is allowed, Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad…

Jessinta Tan and Nazry BahrawiTwo organisations that held mass rallies in Malaysia recently may cause more confrontations with the authorities in the run-up to polling day on March 8, just as Prime…

The Election Commission announced that nomination day for the 222 parliamentary and 505 state seats would be Feb 24.

Move will benefit ruling coalition as much as opposition: AnalystsNazry Bahrawi and Jessinta Tan

KUALA LUMPUR: Two ministers have announced their retirement following the dissolution of Parliament.

The President of International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) has extended a special invitation to all professionals, opinion-makers on the web and interested individuals to attend the…

Sifir politik PAS adalah mudah. Seperti yang disebutkan oleh presiden parti itu, Dato' Seri Abd Hadi Awang, PAS ingin menang 40 kerusi parlimen. Kalau PAS menang sebanyak itu, ada harapan Abd…

It cannot be over-emphasised that corruption and injustice are now at astronomically unprecedented proportions, affecting all levels of administration. And the victims of these endemic crimes are…

I refer to our conversation earlier on today.Please be informed that the Malaysians Democratic Party (MDP) fully endorsed the Peoples' Declaration. We do hope that other political parties would…

I believe some appraisal of the meaning of the general elections to be pertinent and relevant at this point, not only in terms of identifying some of the basic and core social issues that need to be…

and the story of the young Kuwaiti girl who fooled them and their presidentBy Nameless

Oleh Azamin AminKUALA LUMPUR, 15 Feb (Hrkh)-Penduduk setinggan dan peneroka bandar di seluruh negara yang tertindas akibat kezaliman kerajaan Barisan Nasional(BN) mestilah mempunyai iltizam dan…