Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi today defended his old nemesis Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and proclaimed that the controversial National Civics Bureau (BTN) “is certainly not racist”.
Dr Mahathir has been attacked by Minister in the Prime Minister Department’s Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz for defending the civics programme.
The continued row has led to Nazri calling Dr Mahathir the “father of all racism” when the former party president told Nazri to resign from Umno because if he were against racism, he should not be in a racist party.
Abdullah refused to be dragged into Nazri’s spat with Dr Mahathir but stressed that BTN as an institution was never racist.
“I am not going to get into that. I want to talk about BTN and to the extent that when I was involved the programme was not racist.
Continue reading : malaysiainsider
GEORGE TOWN: An Indonesian woman died after she fell to her death while trying to flee a police raid at a construction site near Taman Sanctuary, Gelugor, here.
The woman, in her 20s, and her boyfriend, also an Indonesian, had jumped down a 20m slope at the back of the house at about 10am on Thursday.
She was still able to talk and even offered the house owner a RM50 bribe to allow them to escape before succumbing to her head injury.
KLANG: Housewife R. Seetha, who consumed weedkiller with her four children on Thursday, is remorseful about feeding weedkiller to her children and drinking some hereself.
He husband, lorry driver M. Manimaran, 35, said Seetha had asked him for forgiveness Saturday.
“She kept on asking me to forgive her but refuses to say much other than that her stomach is very painful,” said a visibly distraught Manimaran.
The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with World Trade Center steel, passing by the Statue of Liberty.
The new Navy assault ship USS New York, built with steel melted from the World Trade Center ruins, arrived in its namesake city on Monday with a rifle volley salute near the site of the 2001 terrorist attack.
First responders, families of Sept. 11 victims and the public gathered Monday at a waterfront viewing area, where they could see the crew standing at attention along the deck of the battleship gray vessel, AP reported.
Believe it or not, but a crazy Australian fan “buys” Shah Rukh Khan a piece of the moon every year on his birthday.
“Yes, an Australian lady buys a little land on the moon for me every year on my birthday.
“She has been buying it for a while now and I get these certificates from the Lunar Republic Society,” Shah Rukh Khan told a newspaper.
Thousands of Icelanders lined up at McDonald’s restaurants to order their last Big Macs before the US fast-food chain abandons the crisis-hit island at midnight yesterday due to soaring costs.
The world’s largest fast-food company said earlier this week that all three of its restaurants in Iceland, operated by franchisee Jon Ogmundsson, would shut down Oct 31.
Miss Indonesia Qory Sandioriva who has come under fire from Muslim clerics for not wearing a headscarf, says she won’t be wearing a bikini in the 2010 Miss Universe pageant.
“No, I will wear a one-piece swimsuit.”
“This is the rule from the Indonesian board and I think I don’t have to show too much skin to be able to achieve something in the pageant, just like Artika Sari Devi (Miss Indonesia 2004),” she told the Jakarta Globe in an interview.
By A. Mannan
A former teacher in Mangalore, India, has confessed to marrying and murdering 18 women since 2003.
Mohan Kumar, 46, admitted to the murders of the women, aged between 18 and 25 after being detained by police on Wednesday in a case involving a missing girl.
His marry-and-murder spree began after he resigned as a primary school teacher after working for 23 years. Killer ‘husband’ Mohan Kumar being led to court on Wednesday
The announcement of MCA’s peace plan today left niggling doubts over how solid the reconciliation between former rivals will be and whether it will really be the end to months of power struggle.
The Malaysian Insider understands that Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, who brokered the plan, is also unsure if the idea of maintaining the status quo in MCA will work.
The government may have to bear part of the RM1.14 billion loss in the 179km rail double-tracking contract between Rawang and Ipoh as the project was poorly managed.
An audit of the project carried out from August 2008 to January 2009 discovered identified several weaknesses in its implementation such as the delay, and the procurement of extra equipments and coaches not keeping in steps with the infrastructural development causing the infrastructure to be not fully optimised.
FREQUENT flyer Tony Choo remembers when passengers first had to remove their jackets when passing through airport security.
Then it was belts and soon shoes had to come off too. Choo was among those who feared that losing one’s trousers was the next step.
It happened to the Kuala Lumpur businessman, wife Violet and daughter Christine at Manchester
airport yesterday.
More »
FAMILY’S GRIEF: Friends and family of robbery suspect in Taman Equine yesterday
BAK KUT TEH seller Chan Kok Lung, 33, who was gunned down in a vicious shootout with police in Seri Kembangan two days ago, may have had a premonition that his life was to end soon.
A source close to the suspected robber’s family told Malay Mail that he had hinted to his wife he may not be around for long.
The source said Chan had reminded his wife that if he was “gone”, she should look for his friend who incidentally, was the other suspected robber, Wong Keong Hong, 41, whom police shot dead in Genting Highlands just minutes later in a separate shootout on Monday.
Puteri Umno has urged the Government not to give in to “extreme demands” by Indonesia over the domestic maid issue. Its chief Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin said giving in to demands such as a day off for Indonesian maids and allowing the maids to keep their own passport would pose a great risk to employers.
“The employer-maid contract has already included a provision for a day off. It is up to the discretion of employers to decide on their maids’day off. It is not a new agreement.
A Durex Sexual Wellbeing Survey has shown that as much as 75% of Malaysian adults credit the World Wide Web for teaching them the bedroom “how-tos”. School sex education, meanwhile, lagged behind other sources of information at 36%. This was behind magazines (73%), books (65%), friends and peers (56%) and partners (43%).
There were a total of 1,026 respondents, which made up an equal number of men and women aged 18 years and above. A total of 75% of men and 71% of women relied on the Internet for information on sex. Despite the figures, less than half of Malaysians – 45% of men and 39% of women think there is enough advice and information available for them.
BHUVANESWARI: Second time facing prostitution charge
SULTRY South Indian actress Bhuvaneswari, 33, who has been accused of prostitution, is believed to have named certain Malaysian and Singaporean businessmen as her main clients.
Malay Mail understands that some of these businessmen are involved with the film industry as financiers of Tamil and Telugu movies and television serials.
An editor of a popular showbiz magazine in Chennai, Kay Ravi, told Malay Mail that the names of the Malaysians and Singaporeans cropped up during investigations by the media into the high-profile scandal.
Previous Entries
Categories
Tag Cloud
Blog RSS
Comments RSS
Last 50 Posts
Back
Void 
Life 
Earth 
Wind 
Water 
Fire