(The Star) - KOTA BARU: The state Road Transport Department (JPJ) has ordered some of its personnel not to carry more than RM50 as pocket money while performing official duties.

(The New Straits Times) - KUANTAN: Opposition politician Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said he would contest a by-election if he was not allowed to be a candidate in the upcoming general election.

(The New Straits Times) - KUALA LUMPUR: Gerakan and MCA will fight tooth and nail together to keep Penang in the hands of Barisan Nasional, said Gerakan adviser Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik.

(The New Straits Times) - KUALA LUMPUR: Gerakan adviser Datuk Seri Lim Keng Yaik admitted that he shortchanged his son, Gerakan Youth deputy head Lim Si Pin during his tenure as party president.

(The New Straits Times) - For the first time in 40 years, the Divine Life Society (DLS) has actually been forced to throw away the free food it gives out during the Thaipusam celebrations at Batu…

(The Star) - KUALA LUMPUR: Indians are not easily swayed into supporting a political party based on promises of incentives, said MIC president Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu.

(The Star) - KUALA LUMPUR: The Sri Bala Subramaniar Swamy Temple in Port Klang saw the largest-ever crowd in its 160-year history with thousands of people gathering to observe Thaipusam.

(The Star) - KUANTAN: There is a consensus among Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) candidates who win in the general election to make way for Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim if the polls were held before April.

(Al Jazeera) - Thousands of Malaysian Indians have been taking part in the annual Hindu festival of Thaipusam. But the turnout for traditional ceremonies was much lower than previous years at the main…

Dr. Mahathir, di dalam komennya ketika bertemu para bloggers tahun lepas, ada menyebut bahawa UMNO tidak mungkin akan berubah, hanya rakyat saja yang boleh mengubahnya (dengan mengundi pembangkang).

By Thomas Bell in Kuala Lumpur(The Telegraph) - Hindus in Malaysia mortified their flesh with hooks and spears as they delivered a protest against the government which has imprisoned their popular…

KOTA KINABALU, Jan 23 (Bernama) -- Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) will not be able to create an upset and topple the Barisan Nasional-led state government of Sabah in the coming general election.

(The Sun) - PUTRAJAYA (Jan 23, 2008): Severely challenged by spiralling global oil prices that has driven national subsidies to beyond RM40 billion, the government today announced it has established…

(The Sun) - PETALING JAYA (Jan 23, 2008): MIC president and Works Minister Datuk Seri S.Samy Vellu has called for unity among the Indian community in his annual Thaipusam address in Batu Caves…

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 23 (Bernama) -- Calls made to Hindus through short messaging service (SMS) to boycott Thaipusam festival in Batu Caves fizzled out as hundreds of thousands of devotees thronged the…

GUA MUSANG, Jan 23 (Bernama) -- The experience of the defunct Parti Melayu Semangat 46 (Semangat 46), which collaborated with PAS in the 1990s, shows that PAS is incapable of carrying out its plans…

SUNGAI PETANI, Jan 23 (Bernama) -- The Barisan Nasional (BN) government has already made Malaysia a welfare state, Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidin said Wednesday.

By Baradan Kuppusamy KUALA LUMPUR - A public hearing into alleged corruption in the judiciary is giving Malaysians a rare peek into the way top judges were appointed, demoted and promoted during the…

By Clarence Fernandez KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's disgruntled ethnic Indian community marked one of southeast Asia's biggest Hindu festivals in muted fashion on Wednesday, with…

Coalition for Free and Fair Elections (BERSIH) wishes all Hindu Malaysians a joyful Thaipusam.

MALAYSIAN Indians stayed away in droves from a popular Hindu festival on Wednesday, in a boycott linked to allegations of discrimination by the nation's majority Muslim Malays.

CEOs in emerging economies more confident than in developed countriesDAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 22, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- CEOs' confidence about prospects for business declined for the first…

(By Janine Zacharia, Bloomberg) -- The Saudi monarchy once depended on the U.S. to protect its reign and its oil from foes like Saddam Hussein. These days, President George W. Bush needs the…

Hard Times A-ComingYet if the Fed doesn't cut interest rates even further, the stock market will continue to plunge, which again discourages foreign investors from pouring their money into the…

by Mansor PutehThe National Georgraphic 'documentaries' 'On Becoming a King' and 'Smart tunnel' are not documentaries. They are magazine programs in the style of…

DAP-PKR seat negotiations too agonizingly slow - the whole process nation-wide should be completed by end of January as general election expected within 40 days

(New Straits Times) - It is a safe city seat for Umno and an area where Malay patriotism lies.

(Daily Express) - Penampang: Sabah will spearhead political change for the rest of Malaysia, according to Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) President Datin Seri Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail.

(Daily Express) - Kota Kinabalu: Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) called on the Government to explain why 60,000 hectares in Sugut, Tandek and Pitas have been taken away from natives and given to big…

(Daily Express) - Labuan: A businesswoman has lodged a report against the internet news portal Malaysia Today for allegedly carrying a series of comments, allegations and remarks deemed as insulting,…

In August 2003, I wrote about Bernas, the cash cow of Shahidan Kassim, the Menteri Besar of Perlis. There was no Malaysia Today then of course because Malaysia Today was only launched in August 2004…

(The Straits Times) - PARIS: BRITAIN'S voting system is open to fraud and makes it 'childishly simple' to register bogus voters, Europe's main human rights body said on Tuesday.

(The Straits Times) - WASHINGTON - SOUTHEAST Asia will face stiffer export competition from China and likely bear the brunt of any impact in Asia from a major economic slowdown in the United States,…

(The Straits Times) - KUALA LUMPUR - MALAYSIA'S Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has conceded that the ruling coalition is unlikely to score a repeat of its 2004 landslide victory in the…

(The New Straits Times) - KUALA LUMPUR: Setting up a business in Malaysia can now be done in just a day. This is made possible by an e-lodgement service introduced by the Companies Commission of…

(The New Straits Times) - BUTTERWORTH: The Permatang Pauh Umno division leaders have denied allegations that they were not united and failed to cooperate with each other.

PUTRAJAYA Jan 22 (Bernama) -- Umno vice president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said PAS should explain the type of welfare state it plans to set up so that the people could evaluate whether it can be…

By Matrix Isa Why hasn't EPF TAKEN ACTION? IS it because Rakyat will bail out MAS again, the people in charge should be sacked.

(The New Straits Times) - KUCHING: Sarawak National Party (SNAP) and Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) will contest the next parliamentary election as members of a loose opposition front -- the Barisan…

(The New Straits Times) - KUALA LUMPUR: A landowner has questioned the action of a politician who interfered in the demolition of a food court of which the tenancy agreement has lapsed.