AFP – Fri, Jan 25, 2013
PUTRAJAYA, May 21 – The United Chinese School Committees’ Association of Malaysia (Dong Zong) must be “prepared to make changes” and meet conditions set by the Ministry of Education if the Unified Examination Certificate (UEC) is to be recognised, the government said today.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 21 – The MACC’s Consultation and Corruption Prevention Panel (CCPP) proposed today that all government administrators and their family members at both federal and state levels be barred from bidding for government projects.
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.
Adam Adli Abdul Halim has been subjected to interrogation for two days in a row and was not even given a pillow or a blanket to sleep, said lawyer Fadiah Nadwa Fikri, who visited student activist today.
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.
A Turkish Airlines plane carrying 114 passengers was hit by lightning but landed safely in the western city of Izmir, an airline official said Friday.
The passengers panicked when the lightning sparked a fire in the plane's right engine, but the pilot activated a built-in fire extinguisher to put out the blaze.
The plane had taken off from Istanbul at 11:15 pm (2115 GMT).
There were no casualties.
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Oleh Md Izwan
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.
KUALA LUMPUR, May 20 ― DAP chairman Karpal Singh warned Tunku Abdul Aziz Ibrahim today to cease and desist from attacking DAP and its leaders, saying legal action will otherwise be taken against the party’s former vice-chairman.
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