Police have arrested The Malaysian Insider’s managing editor Lionel Morais, Bahasa news editor Amin Shah Iskandar and features and analysis editor Zulkifli Sulong over a report on hudud related to the Conference of Rulers. Police together with Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) officials raided The Malaysian Insider’s office in Mutiara Damansara and made the…
Getting my hair done before GST kicks in
1st April will be the date of the implementation of GST. Everyone is busy shopping to try to save some money prior to 1st April to the point of clearing entire shelves in supermarkets. Today, the parliament sitting ended earlier than I expected this session. I then decided to do something which I wanted to…
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Police could have just called me, I would have gone to station, says PAS lawmaker
Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad today said police could have just called him instead of wasting its resources arresting him in the wee hours of Sunday. The PAS lawmaker said 10 policemen came to his house at 3.20am to arrest him. “I think it was an unwise action, a waste of manpower and time. If…
Fighting erupts over ‘Kita Lawan’ slogan for Selangor sports
PETALING JAYA: Selangor sports officials drawn fire for proposing “Kita Lawan” as the motto for the state’s contingent to Sukma, the Malaysia Games sports tournament next year. The Olympic Council of Malaysia bluntly said: ““Drop it.” OCM secretary Sieh Kok Chi, quoted by the Malay Mail, said: “Sports is not about fighting … it is…
Flawed data used to praise Malaysia’s English standards, says DAP’s Zairil
Deputy Education Minister P. Kamalanathan had resorted to using an unscientific and statically invalid survey to claim that Malaysians have the best command of English in Asia, a DAP lawmaker said today. Bukit Bendera MP Zairil Khir Johari said the survey Kamalanathan had cited yesterday, the English Proficiency Index by Sweden-based EF Education First, drew…
‘M’sia’s English standards better than Singapore’s’
Faced with criticism over the country’s falling standards in the English language, Deputy Education Minister P Kamalanathan today peddled a survey which he said showed Malaysians’ command of English is in fact better than Singapore’s. Furthermore, Kamalanathan said, Malaysia is ranked number one among Asian countries. “We are number one and you will be happy…
Blessed Holy Week 2015
Holy Week in the Christian year is the week immediately before Easter. The earliest allusion to the custom of marking this week as a whole with special observances is to be found in the Apostolical Constitutions (v. 18, 19), dating from the latter half of the 3rd century and 4th century. In this text, abstinence…