AFP – Thu, Aug 16, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan and the rest of Bersih 2.0’s 20-member steering committee are soon expected to relinquish their posts to make way for new blood in the leadership of the polls watchdog movement.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s newly re-elected Barisan Nasional (BN) government faces what the Financial Times today called the serious economic problem of weakening exports.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 — Malaysians have the right to question why the country’s electoral system allows a minority government to stay in power, Lim Guan Eng said today as he slammed the government’s “autocratic” approach in handling dissent over the results of Election 2013.
GEORGE TOWN, May 21 — The Penang Hindu Endowment Board (HEB) will review its procedures over keeping gold in its office in Komtar following the loss of three gold bars from its safe in December last year.
GEORGE TOWN, May 21 — A candlelight vigil for detained student activist Adam Adli Abdul Halim last night was disrupted when a scuffle broke out, resulting in two of Bukit Bendera MP Zairil Khir Johari’s assistants getting assaulted.
Europe's main stock markets advanced at the start of trading on Thursday, with London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of leading companies up 0.20 percent at 5,844.85 points.
Frankfurt's benchmark DAX 30 index added 0.17 percent to 6,958.39 points and in Paris the CAC 40 gained 0.21 percent to 3,458.56.
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KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 — The call to boycott Chinese businesses is a double-edged weapon, former Malaysian Institute of Economic Research executive director Datuk Dr Ariff Abdul Kareem said today, explaining that the campaign would also end up hurting Malay consumers through deprivation of their daily needs.
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PETALING JAYA, May 20 — PKR’s Rafizi Ramli today offered evidence of phantom voters, which he alleged was widespread fraud that could potentially “discredit” the recently-concluded general election, besides putting the integrity of Malaysia’s identity cards (IC) in doubt.
KUALA LUMPUR, 19 Mei — Harga iklan syarikat penerbangan AirAsia lebih murah daripada iklan-iklan kecil yang lain, kata Awang Selamat dalam akhbar Mingguan Malaysia hari ini, serta menggesa ketua pegawai eksekutif anak syarikatnya, AirAsiaX, Azran Osman Rani, meminta maaf.