Eurogroup head Juncker to visit Athens August 22

  • BN to face angrier Malaysians with continued crackdown, warns Ambiga
    BN to face angrier Malaysians with continued crackdown, warns Ambiga

    KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 — Putrajaya will only face more wrath from right-thinking Malaysians if it continues its nationwide crackdown on opposition supporters, Datuk Ambiga Sreenavasan said today.

  • Foreigners say got ICs through Project IC, court official tells RCI
    Foreigners say got ICs through Project IC, court official tells RCI

    KOTA KINABALU, May 23 — Foreign parents have said that they received blue ICs in Sabah through “Project IC” before applying for the late birth registration of their children, a court official told the Royal Commission of Inquiry (RCI) on illegal immigrants here today.

  • In protest, family to take victim’s remains to KL police Hq
    In protest, family to take victim’s remains to KL police Hq

    KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 — The grieving family of N. Dharmendran, the latest person to die in police custody, held a mock funeral where they perform prayers for the deceased’s remains at the Kuala Lumpur police headquarters here, in a symbolic gesture of protest against an incident that has drawn condemnation from opposition politicians and rights groups.

  • DAP says will use Parliament to quiz IGP on Pakatan witch hunt
    DAP says will use Parliament to quiz IGP on Pakatan witch hunt

    KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 — The DAP vowed today to use its voice in Parliament to question the new Inspector-General of Police (IGP) on his alleged obsession with netting Pakatan Rakyat (PR) politicians instead of combating crime.

  • Opposition party papers seized as nationwide crackdown begins
    Opposition party papers seized as nationwide crackdown begins

    KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 — Over a thousand copies of PAS-owned Malay newspaper Harakah as well as DAP-owned The Rocket and PKR’s Suara Keadilan were carted off by home ministry officials from shops and several distribution centres in a nationwide raid today, as Putrajaya mounts an apparent crackdown against Pakatan Rakyat (PR) supporters.

Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the eurozone finance ministers group, will visit Greece on August 22, the office of Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Friday.

Greece has been bailed out twice by the European Union and International Monetary Fund, with auditors currently reviewing progress it has made on reforms and economic targets to see if it merits its next aid disbursement.

The EU-IMF auditors are due to hold a final meeting with Greek officials this weekend and then return to the country when spending cuts worth 11.5 billion euros are finalised, a finance ministry source said Thursday.

The budget cuts, applicable in 2013 and 2014, were originally to have been finalised last month but back-to-back elections postponed the decision.

They are necessary to unlock a 31.5-billion-euro ($39-billion) loan disbursement by September, part of the country's latest 130-billion-euro rescue package from the EU, the IMF and the European Central Bank.

Samaras on Wednesday overcame reservations over the new savings from his socialist and moderate leftist coalition partners, who are wary of imposing new cuts on a population struggling after years of austerity.

The semi-state run ANA news agency said Samaras is in turn due to visit Paris and Berlin on August 24 and 25 for talks with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

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