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INTERVIEW Unapologetic for her defence of the gay and lesbian lifestyle, controversial liberal-Islam author Irshad Manji has challenged critics to explain how Allah in all His glory could have made “misfits or abominations”. More »Manji: Allah made gays and lesbians, too
KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 — Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim claimed a symbolic victory today in having the man who unsuccessfully prosecuted him for sodomy join his legal team to defend an illegal assembly charge, pointing out that someone who was in government did not want to be a part of what he called the “dirtiness”. More »Anwar claims symbolic win after former prosecutor joins legal team
Malaysia's badminton hero Lee Chong Wei has pulled out of the Thomas Cup Finals after injuring his ankle in a group match. More »Lee Chong Wei out of Thomas Cup Finals after ankle injury
Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim claims that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak is using the court process to stifle him further as the 13th general election approaches. More »Najib using the courts against me, says Anwar
KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 – Malaysia Airlines (MAS) unveiled details of its critical fund raising exercise today consisting of RM2.5 billion in Islamic bonds, RM2 billion in bridging loans from commercial banks and proposals for a new state entity to pay for RM5.3 billion of pending aircraft delivery and lease them to MAS rather than own the planes outright. More »MAS to raise over RM4b from bonds, loans
KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 — Penang Barisan Nasional (BN) chief Teng Chang Yeow has insisted that Umno “needs” Gerakan and MCA to wrest the state from Pakatan Rakyat (PR) in the coming polls, although the Malay party was the only one among the three that won seats in Election 2008. More »Umno ‘needs’ Gerakan, MCA to win Penang, says state BN boss
By Jahabar SadiqEditor KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 — Malaysia Airlines (MAS) has offered a maximum of two years of unpaid leave to its Malaysia-based employees as the flag carrier works out strategies to cut costs and seek RM6 billion to fund a re-fleeting programme after losing RM2.52 billion last year and aborting a share swap with competitor AirAsia. More »To cut costs, MAS offers staff 2 years’ unpaid leave
The Malaysian starlet has officially been signed by the Portuguese club following a trial and he says he is excited about starting a new adventure More »Malaysian starlet Nazmi Faiz signs with Beira-Mar
Tenaganita executive director Irene Fernandez today turned the tables by saying that it is the government who is "immoral" for threatening human rights defenders like her with the law. More »'It's the government that is immoral!'
PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim, along with party deputy president Azmin Ali and former supreme council member Badrul Hisham Shaharin, have been charged with participating in a street protest. More »Anwar claims trial to Bersih 3.0 charge
SHAH ALAM, May 23 — Abolishing the national higher education loan scheme and implementing all of Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) Buku Jingga policies will bleed RM188 billion annually from federal coffers and bankrupt the country, Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin has said. More »Khairy: Pakatan’s Buku Jingga, free education pledge will bankrupt Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 – Lynas Corporation chairman Nicholas Curtis has said that bilateral deals are only as good as the willingness of governments to play by their own rules, citing the Australian miner’s frustrations in starting up its Kuantan rare earths plant even as Canberra and Putrajaya inked a free trade agreement (FTA) today. More »Lynas chief’s cautionary tale suggests Malaysia not ‘business nirvana’
KUALA LUMPUR, May 23 — Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan will not take legal action against those responsible for staging protest gatherings outside her home, and said she would rather rely on the “court of public opinion”. More »‘Let it be’, Ambiga says of protests outside home
In the span of just a few days, Samsung has already received nine million pre-orders for its new smartphone, the Galaxy S3, according to an article in Korea Economic Daily published Friday. Currently about a hundred carriers around the world, including T-Mobile and AT&T in the US and Vodafone in the UK are offering preorders for the phone. Its official release is scheduled for May 29. More »Samsung Galaxy S3: already close to 10 million pre-ordered
KUALA LUMPUR, May 22 — Human Rights Watch today urged the government to drop charges against Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders for taking part in the April 28 Bersih 3.0 rally, saying that there seems to be targeted political prosecution. More »Drop Bersih charges against PR leaders, says human rights group
Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) has denied permits to 60 petty traders to set up stalls on the road in front of the house of Coalition for Clean and Fair Elections (Bersih) co-chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan on Thursday and Friday. More »City Hall rejects permits but traders to go ahead
PUTRAJAYA: Four of the five off-duty policemen who crashed a car into the gate of the prime minister's official residence in Putrajaya while sightseeing were discharged yesterday More »Four gatecrashing cops discharged
French lawyers representing Suaram in the human rights group's suit against defence giant DCNS for alleged corruption involving top Malaysian officials will be coming to the country to brief their client on the case. More »Scorpene case: French lawyers apply for work visa
Despite receiving brickbats for his decision to join Anwar Ibrahim’s defence team, former solicitor-general II Mohd Yusof Zainal Abiden defended his move and said he had expected criticism. More »Yusof defends decision to join Anwar's defence team
An Indian immigrant college student convicted of illegally filming his gay roommate on a webcam received a big break Monday when a judge sentenced him to just 30 days behind bars, not the possible 10 years. More »US student in gay webcam spying gets 30 days jail