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Parliamentary Services Commission to be set up next year
KUALA LUMPUR: The Parliamentary Services Commission is expected to be set up next year in the effort to enhance the parliament’s autonomy, the Dewan Rakyat sitting was told today. Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Liew Vui Keong said
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Guan Eng: Govt has sufficient funds to pay civil servants’ salaries
PUTRAJAYA: Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said the government has sufficient funds to pay the civil servants’ salaries and does not need to borrow in order to do so. He said this was proven by the reaffirmation of Malaysia’s sovereign
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Dec 12 for mention of LTTE cases of Arivainthan and Balamurugan
KUALA KANGSAR: The Sessions Court here today fixed Dec 12 this year for mention of the cases of technician S Arivainthan and taxi driver V Balamurugan on charges of supporting terrorist group LTTE the past five years. Judge Rohaida Ishak
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Musa Aman fails in his bid to query Shafie’s legal standing on being CM
KOTA KINABALU: The Court of Appeal today dismissed former chief minister Tan Sri Musa Aman’s appeal against his dismissal, challenging Datuk Seri Mohd Shafie Apdal’s appointment as Sabah Chief Minister. The three-member bench comprising justices Datuk Kamardin Hashim, Datuk Rhodzariah
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Plastic waste: An environmental bane Malaysia is unloading
Plastic pollution is one of the biggest problems facing the world today. Even though plastic has many valuable uses, people tend to become addicted to single-use plastic, which can cause terrible environmental consequences. According to the United Nations, one million
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Zakir Naik: Apologise or get sued
PUCHONG: Dr Zakir Naik had yesterday filed suits against Human Resources Minister M Kula Segaran, Klang MP Charles Santiago and Bagan Dalam assemblyman Satees Muniandy each for defamation. The suit was filed at the Kuala Lumpur High Court by the
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Lawyer gives 5 reasons why the IPCMC will NOT investigate deaths and abuse in custody
Why do the public want an independent commission to investigate police actions and inactions? Home Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin doesn’t want to say. De facto law minister V K Liew doesn’t want to say. Why? Because they “don’t want to embarrass
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Chin Peng’s ash – Let’s Get over it
Whatever said and done. Chin Peng is dead and gone. Yet history will have a place for him for the many reasons good or bad. How can we erase the history that he had the historical meeting with Tengku Abdul
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Adib’s death: Police hunting down suspects
KUALA LUMPUR: Police will re-exhibit pictures of suspects involved in the riots at Kuil Sri Maha Marimmam, USJ25, Subang Jaya which led to the death of fireman Muhammad Adib Mohd Kassim last year. Bukit Aman Crime Investigation Department director Datuk
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Salmee: Don’t send young kids to tahfiz centres, ustaz disagrees
ALOR SETAR: Young children should not be sent to tahfiz centres where they have to live in the hostels, said chairman of the Kedah Education and Human Resources Committee chairman Dr Salmee Said. “At the age of six, seven years,
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