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  • Malaysian Indian Congress to hold its polls in 2014

    The organisational elections of the Malyasian Indian Congress (MIC), including the presidential election, will be held in 2014, a media report said Saturday. The party's acting president G. Palanivel said that the presidential election will be held between January and March next year and this will be followed by elections of other top office-bearers. Formed in 1946, the MIC is one of the ...

  • Preparations on for Sikh festival in Malaysia

    Preparations are on for the four-day festival of Barsi, said to be the largest Sikh event outside of the Punjab state in India, in Gurdwara Sahib Malacca in the Malaysian state of Malacca, starting May 30. The festival commemorates the death anniversary of Sant Baba Sohan Singh Ji, a Sikh saint who lived in Malacca and passed away in 1972 at Ipoh General Hospital near the Malaysian capital of ...

  • Amnesty International USA Charges Against Malaysian Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim Politically Motivated

    Human Rights Group Considered Anwar a Prisoner of Conscience WASHINGTON - August 6 - Sodomy charges against Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim may be an attempt to stop him from running for election to parliament, Amnesty International said ...

  • Rela member in coma after being hit by escaping motorcyclist

    IPOH: A Rela member personnel suffered serious head injuries and slipped into a coma after he was hit by a motorcyclist trying to escape a police roadblock here. Ipoh OCPD Asst Comm Sum Chang Keong said the incident occurred on Saturday morning at 3.45am, along Jalan Pasir Puteh here when authorities, including the victim, Teong Yoon Meng, 44, tried to surround the suspect in a joint operation ...

  • PKR rep asks for top GLC roles

    PETALING JAYA: A Selangor PKR leader has demanded that top roles in state government-linked companies be reserved for party members. Sri Muda assemblyman and Selangor PKR information chief Suhaimi Shafiei said that PKR members should be in leadership positions in GLCs not only in Selangor but all over the country. "But if there are any party members who abuse their positions to enrich ...

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What Women Want [DVD]

What Women Want [DVD]

Playing Nick Marshall, the wealthy, successful, male-chauvinist Chicago ad executive in What Women Want marks the first time Mel Gibson has played the lead role in a straight romantic comedy. While the more recent entries into the Lethal Weapon franchise have played like comedies with an extreme body count, Gibson has never been in a movie like this one, which is surprising beca ... ...

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  • Mahathir Says Malaysia Ruling Party Has No Alternative to Najib

    Malaysia 's ruling Barisan Nasional has no choice but to continue supporting Prime Minister Najib Razak, even after losing a majority of the popular vote in May 5 elections, said Mahathir Mohamad, the nation's former leader. "I think the party will support him because of a lack of an alternative," Mahathir, 87, said in Tokyo today, speaking at the Foreign ...

  • Malaysia urges parties in conflicts to discard extremism

    KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 (Bernama) -- Malaysia has urged all parties in conflicts to discard extremism and move instead towards promoting a culture of peace to resolve differences. Malaysia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) in New York, Datuk Hussein Haniff said such a culture would bring together all actors and could be undertaken by community and religious leaders, ...

  • Political Jockeying Ahead of Malaysia Election

    The police said 45,000 people. Some politicians claimed it was 60,000. Other independent estimates were as high 150,000 individuals. Such squabbling over crowd numbers at political events isn't unique to Malaysia, but nonetheless likely sets the adversarial tone for the coming weeks or months until the next parliamentary election, due to be called by the end of April. "We want a free ...

  • Wall Street posts first weekly loss since mid-April on Fed angst

    NEW YORK: The S&P 500 declined for a third day on Friday, with the three major stock indexes posting their first negative week since mid-April on lingering concern that the central bank may scale back its stimulus measures to support the economy. Still, the indexes closed well off their lows in light volume ahead of the three-day Memorial Day holiday weekend. The Dow ended slightly higher, ...

  • Pakatan leaders mixed on single-party Barisan

    said that it wasn't about the composition of the party but the ability to gain the confidence of the people. He added that Barisan had to take stock of its current position to avoid the coalition's popularity slipping further. Speaking to reporters after the opening of PKR's ninth congress Saturday, the DAP strongman said that it was a political reality that multi-racial parties ...

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