The High Court in George Town today allowed an appeal by a quantity surveyor who was sentenced to jail and fined for flashing obscene hand gestures at Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Haminah and a police officer last year. Judicial Commissioner Wong Teck Meng also ordered Leong Pei Koe, 30, to be retri …

Former colonial master the United Kingdom has been urged to review a 1963 agreement, which allegedly ceded Sarawak and Sabah to the Federation of Malaysia instead of granting the Borneo states full independence. A human rights NGO, Sarawak Association of People’s Aspiration (Sapa), said that given t …

Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak may have promised not to impose toll charges for the Eastern Dispersal Link (EDL) in 2012 but he is strangely silent now that a similar mechanism is to be introduced tomorrow. “If the government is unable to keep to its promise, then at least it must have the decency …

PAS said today it will not heed any outside parties’ urgings for it to take discipline action on its central committee member Dr Mohd Zuhdi Marzuki, even though he has been recently called a racist and a traitor to Pakatan Rakyat’s cause. PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali stressed that this was an i …

PAS central committee member Dr Mujahid Yusof Rawa today distanced the party from the controversial remarks of Islamic preacher Shahul Hamid, which were deemed insulting to Hindus. “His speech was made many years ago, about four years, in his series of lectures and a part taken and we don’t know the …

DAP has warned that should snap polls be called to solve the current menteri besar impasse in Selangor, Pakatan Rakyat risks handing the state over to BN and that PAS stood to lose the most. According to Selangor DAP chairperson Tony Pua, surveys and feedback from the ground indicated that Selangori …

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Sarawak has been hit hard by El Nino weather phenomenon causing severe water shortages, in the state but Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu anak Numpang, who is chairperson of the state Disaster Relief Committee, is taking the situation very lightly. He has come under fire from Sarawak PKR for his ap …

The remarks of a PAS central committee member to gerrymander electoral boundaries according to race and religion, hurts efforts for a fair re-delineation process which is due this year, said Bersih chairperson Maria Chin Abdullah. Maria said the comment on an internal PAS Whatsapp group by Mohd Zuhd …

Amazon, which opened its Indian website in June last year, has drawn up the battle lines by slashing prices, launching same-day delivery, adding new product categories and embarking on a high-voltage advertisement campaign. Amazon to invest RM6.4 bil in India's e-commerce sectorwww.kinibiz.comA …

Pakatan Rakyat needs to stick to its agenda of bringing social justice and democratisation if it is to inspire confidence amongst Malaysians, said DAP political education chief Liew Chin Tong. “Pakatan Rakyat has to clarify its agenda and deal with what we are going to offer to Malaysians in the nex …

Putrajaya should not introduce a vehicle entry permit (VEP) fee on vehicles coming into the country from Singapore, simply out of spite, because the republic raised its VEP charge on vehicles entering from Johor, says Johor DAP. “I have never rejected the implementation of VEP, though I have stresse …

MCA has urged voters to reject the Pakatan Rakyat coalition in the next Sarawak state election as the latter was “dishonest” when it claimed that its Islamist component party PAS was moderate in its views. It's due for 2016 but there is a possibility it could be held a year earlier. Read more h …