(TodayOnline) - As the 38th World Economic Forum (WEF) opened yesterday in Davos amid snow and rain, the global economy is fighting huge slides in stock markets, slowing growth, the subprime crisis…

(TodayOnline) - An SMS campaign encouraging people to boycott yesterday's Thaipusam festival in Malaysia thinned the crowd that attended festivities at the Batu Caves temple, the scene of last…

Oleh Anwar Hussain & Johari IbrahimKUALA LUMPUR: Manifesto Pas untuk mewujudkan sebuah negara kebajikan akan menyekat pertumbuhan ekonomi dan menyebabkan rakyat terpaksa menanggung beban kenaikan…

KUALA LUMPUR: Hasrat Wanita Barisan Nasional (BN) meletakkan sekurang-kurangnya 20 peratus calon wanita bertanding kerusi Parlimen dan Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) adalah keputusan kompromi yang…

By John Burton in Singapore, Financial Times Abdullah Badawi, Malaysia’s prime minister, has identified inflation and crime as key issues in the general election that he is expected to…

What was clear from the time that Suharto really took over power in 1970, however, was that the 'New Order' he instituted after Sukarno's disgraceful downfall was supported, financed,…

Oleh A Kadir JasinSELEPAS pilihan raya umum 1995, saya menulis sebuah rencana dalam akhbar Utusan Malaysia mengenai pencapaian Barisan Nasional, khas Umno di Kedah.

(The Star) - PETALING JAYA: Former Deputy Home Minister Tan Sri Megat Junid Megat Ayub passed away at 5.25am Thursday at the Pantai Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur. He was 65.

Government sticking with growth forecast of 4.5%-6.5% despite fears of US slowdown (The Straits Times) - PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that he is confident Singapore will be able to…

Oleh Ruhanie Ahmad, Kuda KepangPada 22 Januari 2008, saya duduk di kedai kopi riverside, PWTC, Kuala Lumpur, sejak jam 3.00 hingga 5.00 petang. Suasana hingar bangar. Ada kelompok yang membedal…

(Abdul Khalik, The Jakarta Post) - The government vows that claims on Soeharto's assets will be effective against his children, threatening to confiscate their assets if the former president…

(BBC News) - An image of a mysterious shape on the surface of Mars, taken by Nasa spacecraft Spirit, has reignited the debate about life on the Red Planet.

Final Part (Part 4) of the speech on "Student Idealism", delivered to Indonesian and Malaysian Muslim students of North America, Washington D C, December 2007. A REPUBLIC OF…

MALAYSIA plans to set up a national food stockpile to safeguard the country against rising prices and possible shortages, local newspapers said on Thursday.

Oleh Warga Pahang Persinggahan selepas Isya', Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim ke Pahang Timur pada 22hb Januari 2008 adalah sebuah Dewan restoran yang boleh memuatkan lebih kurang 1500 orang di Kuantan.…

But KL denies ethnic Indians stayed away due to discontent over their rights in the country(The Straits Times) - THE Batu Caves temple was the target of a boycott by activists during the annual…

Oleh Basiron Abd WahabKUANTAN, 24 Jan (Hrkh) - Angin perubahan politik semakin jelas akan berlaku selepas pilihan umum ke-12 akan datang khususnya di Pahang.

KOTA BHARU, 24 Jan (Hrkh) -PAS sangsi Barisan Nasional (BN) mampu menyelesaikan masalah-masalah rakyat dan negara sekiranya BN di bawah pimpinan Perdana Menteri, Dato' Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi…

PUTRAJAYA 23 Jan: Kerajaan mengumumkan dua mekanisme iaitu pewujudan Stok Simpanan Kebangsaan dan Pusat Panggilan Kebangsaan bagi memastikan bekalan barangan keperluan di negara ini mencukupi dengan…

KUANTAN 23 Jan. - Penasihat Parti Keadilan Rakyat (Keadilan) Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim berkata, walaupun tidak dapat bertanding pada pilihan raya umum ke-12 yang dijangka diadakan sebelum April ini,…

CIA engages in research, development, and deployment of high-leverage technology for intelligence purposes.

A HUMAN skull fossil that could date back 100,000 years has been unearthed in China, state media said yesterday, hailing it as the greatest discovery since Peking Man.

(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…