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  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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Mamma Roma [DVD]

Mamma Roma [DVD]

Mamma Roma was controversial Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolinis second film, and it has many similarities to his directorial debut, Accatone (1961), which told in neorealist fashion the downward-spiral story of a pimp living in Rome. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, Pasolini ha ... ...

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  • 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 ...

  • PAS mulling action against members who caused three-way fights

    PETALING JAYA: PAS leadership is mulling taking action against errant members who were involved three-corner fights in the recent polls, resulting in losses to PKR and Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM). ...

  • Blackmail victim reaches end of tether

    SANDAKAN: A housewife who has had enough of a blackmailer's regular threats to make her nude pictures public has sought police help to end her nightmare. The 29-year-old woman, who could not afford to pay the latest demand of RM3,000, decided to lodge a police report to end about three-years of constant extortion, said Sandakan police chief Asst Comm Rowell Marong. Rowell said that the girl ...

  • PKR to postpone party elections

    PETALING JAYA: PKR has pushed its party polls deadline to May 2014 from November 2013, extending the mandate of its leadership by up to six months. The PKR delegates unanimously agreed to the motion to put off the party polls proposed by ...

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