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Why yet to question Shahrizat, Kit Siang asks MACC

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — The DAP’s Lim Kit Siang is demanding answers as to why Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil has not been interrogated over the National Feedlot Centre (NFC) scandal when she is due to resume ministerial duties tomorrow.

The DAP advisor pointed out that the purpose of Shahrizat’s three-week leave was to allow investigators to ... Read More

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak waves to the crowd at the Thaipusam festival in Batu Caves on February 7, 2012. — Picture by Choo Choy May
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak waves to the crowd at the Thaipusam festival in Batu Caves on February 7, 2012. — Picture by Choo Choy May Read More

Bar Council wants government to pull Lynas license

By Melissa Chi
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — The Bar Council demanded today Putrajaya revoke or at least suspend a temporary operating license (TOL) to Lynas Corp, saying the move was “hasty” and reckless.Its president Lim Chee ... Read More

‘Trust me,’ Najib tells Indian community

By Melissa Chi
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak today urged Indian Malaysians to “trust” him to improve their lives ahead of the 13th general election.“If you help me, I can help you. You trust me, I trust ... Read More

Police deny trying to speed up deportation of ‘PKR man’

By Yow Hong Chieh
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — The police denied today they were trying to expedite a “PKR man” detained in Indonesia who is said to be linked to a scandal involving a Selangor lawmaker.Federal CID chief Datuk ... Read More

Pakatan tells Raja Nong Chik to ‘polish up’ subprime knowledge

By Shannon Teoh
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — Three Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders accepted today Raja Datuk Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin’s debate dare over the controversial RM1.5 billion home loan plan to be financed by the ... Read More

Guan Eng: ‘Crony capitalism’, not welfare state, will bankrupt Malaysia

By Clara Chooi
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — Lim Guan Eng today countered Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s criticism of Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) welfare state concept by telling the prime minister that it is the Barisan Nasional (BN) ... Read More

KITA sacks Penang, Kedah chiefs for ‘gross violations’

By Clara Chooi
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — Parti Keadilan Insan Tanah Air (KITA) today announced the sacking of two state chapter chiefs with immediate affect, accusing the duo of committing “gross violations” against party ... Read More

US gives non-taxpayers the ballot, overseas voting group tells EC

By Shannon Teoh
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — A group representing Malaysian voters living abroad slammed the Election Commission (EC) today for wrongly citing the United States as a country that operates a “no tax, no vote” ... Read More

Union reps say clueless over EPF loan scheme

By Shazwan Mustafa Kamal
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 7 — The government did not consult the Employees Provident Fund’s (EPF) board of employee representatives when it decided to use RM1.5 billion from the EPF to give home loans to ... Read More

NUBE: Police report lodged on sacking of VP, treasurer

MALACCA, Feb 7 — A police report was lodged today on the dismissal of the vice-president of the National Union of Bank Employees (NUBE), Abdul Jamil Jalaludeen, and its treasurer-general, Chen Ka Fatt, as ... Read More

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