Archive | March, 2009

Quiet Taiping comes alive with by-election campaign rivalry (Malaysia Today)

TAIPING: This quaint and quiet town, known for its heavy rainfall, came to life yesterday with chantings of "Rasuah" ("Bribes") and "Reformasi" ("Reformation") amidst a heavy presence of police and a helicopter circling the crowd of some 20,000. [...more]

Malaysia PM character put at heart of by-election (Reuters via Yahoo!Xtra News)

TAIPING, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia's opposition put questions over the alleged involvement of the country's incoming prime minister in the murder of a Mongolian model at the heart of a tense by-election campaign which started on Sunday. [...more]

Malaysia PM character put at heart of by-election (Reuters via Yahoo!7 News)

TAIPING, Malaysia (Reuters) - Malaysia's opposition put questions over the alleged involvement of the country's incoming prime minister in the murder of a Mongolian model at the heart of a tense by-election campaign which started on Sunday. [...more]

Taiping in nomination day frenzy (The New Straits Times)

TAIPING: In Mandarin, Taiping may mean "everlasting peace", but the last few days have been anything but that. [...more]

Revoke ban on dailies, Karpal tells Guan Eng (The New Straits Times)

GEORGE TOWN: DAP national chairman Karpal Singh wants Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to lift the ban on the New Straits Times and the Utusan Malaysia from attending state functions. [...more]

2009/03/29 (The New Straits Times)

GEORGE TOWN: DAP national chairman Karpal Singh wants Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng to lift the ban on the New Straits Times and the Utusan Malaysia from attending state functions. [...more]

Job cuts least hit Perak Most affected are Penang, Selangor and Johor (The Star)

PERAK is least affected by the retrenchment of workers because there are not many factories involved in the electronics and electrical sector in the state. [...more]

Police shoot dead three, capture three others (The Malaysian Insider)

IPOH, March 27 – Police shot dead three suspected criminals and arrested three others in an operation close to Bukit Merah Lake Town Resort near Taiping, 100km north of here, today. It is believed that a policeman was wounded after he was shot by one of the criminals in the incident which occurred at 2pm. [...more]

2009/03/27 (The New Straits Times)

A YEAR ago, at the outset of Spell-It-Right, I wrote that this competition would seek to unearth some of the brightest schoolchildren in the land, as the ability to spell was a basic criterion of the ability to learn. [...more]

EFFECTS OF ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN ON PERAK NOT ALARMING (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

TAIPING, March 26 (Bernama) -- The effects of the economic slowdown in Perak are not alarming as in Penang, Johor and Selangor, said Human Resource Minister Datuk Dr S. Subramaniam. [...more]