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…
“Kesal atas sikap Marcus Mojigoh yang berupa LALANG yang tukar pendirian”
Pagi ini di sidang Parlimen, bila Joseph Kurup, Menteri di JPM yang bertugas dalam bidang perpaduan nasional memberi jawapan penggulungan terhadap ucapan Ahli Parlimen di bawah usul menjunjung kasih kepada YDP Agong, Marcus Mojigoh, Ahli Parlimen Putatan mencelah ucapan Menteri. Marcus Mojigoh tanya Menteri tentang pandangannya terhadap saya yang dilarang masuk Sabah kerana kononnya saya…
Teresa wants Sabah to prove security threat claim
KUALA LUMPUR: Seputeh MP Teresa Kok has given the Sabah Government, Immigration Sabah and the Malaysian Immigration Department seven days to furnish her with proof that she was a threat to peace and harmony in the rural areas of Sabah. She also wants to know why she has been denied entry into Sabah and blacklisted….
If MCA and Gerakan are truly opposed to Hudud law as they claim, they should quit BN and not continue to be the “disuruh pergi, dipanggil datang “political partners of of UMNO
Since the Kelantan State Assembly recently passed the Hudud law amendments, MCA and Gerakan leaders have been making aggressive and baseless attacks over the DAP’s stand , especially in the printed Chinese media. Let me reiterate that DAP‘s stand on Hudud law is very consistent and clear. DAP has not lied or compromised on our…