(The Korea Herald) - North Korea sought payment through a bank in Malaysia for its suspected shipment of weapons to Myanmar that is being carried on a freighter tracked by the U.S. Navy, a source said Saturday, according to Yonhap News.

By Sakmongkol

I thought the PETRONAS issue has come to an end. Someone told me to sudah sudah lah. Stop demonizing TDM.

(The Malaysian Insider) - Laura Foong scored 12 As in her O-levels three years ago but her application for an overseas government scholarship was rejected.

(The Malaysian Insider) - Former premier Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has dismissed the efforts of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak to liberalise the economy, saying they were “not going to help anybody”.

(The Star) - Several Gerakan division leaders, who attended a big gathering in support of suspended vice-president Huan Cheng Guan, will boycott all party activities if his three-year suspension is not revoked.

(Bernama) - Two police reports were made yesterday against Lembah Pantai member of parliament Nurul Izzah Anwar of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR), in relation to her allegations that the fire at squatter area Bukit B, Kerinchi here recently was planned by certain quarters.

(Business Times) - Malaysia’s exports slumped 29.7 per cent in May from a year earlier, hitting their lowest level since 2001 with demand evaporating, according to official data released today.

(The Star) - DAP should quit Pakatan Rakyat if the party is not willing to compromise, said Kulim Bandar Baru MP Zulkifli Noordin.

GREEN is for the Islamic Party, PAS, whose politics are founded on religion. A dangerous mix indeed. Politics concern the outer world and religion the inner.

If Anwar is to be convicted for sodomy again, it must be with another sham trial as there is simply no other way when two independent hospitals have found no physical signs of sodomy on the alleged partner.

By Kenny Gan, Suara Keadilan

http://www.youtube.com/

How he did his Houdini-like escape from Malaysia, however, has baffled the police. How did an elderly and not exactly limber man skip town with no one noticing?

Faizal Tajuddin, Malaysian Mirror

By Wong Choon Mei, Suara Keadilan

Former premier Mahathir Mohamad, who is the adviser to national oil firm Petronas, has asked how the Umno-BN spent the RM253.6 billion paid out to the government in taxes, royalty, dividends and export duty.

Written by Lam Jian Wyn, The Edge

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad has raised questions over how the RM253.6 billion, which the federal government had received from Petroliam Nasional Bhd (Petronas) over the past six years, were spent.

Najib disclosed that of the RM54 billion worth of shares sold to Malays from 1985 to 2004, only RM2 billion remain in Malay hands. The rest had been sold. So much for the original intent of building Malay equity.

Carolyn Hong, The Straits Times

The science of political management is not unlike corporate management. We need to have truly forward-looking and open-minded managers, sound internal communication and coordination, as well as mutual understanding among all the constituents.

By TAY TIAN YAN/Translated by DOMINIC LOH/Sin Chew Daily

Vijay Kumar Murugavel's Facebook Note on this subject has attracted more than 200 comments and, as a result, a lot of good information is now hard to find. Allow me to restate the problem by summarising what I have read, here and elsewhere. I cannot authenticate many of these facts so anyone who knows otherwise, do clarify as necessary.

By SV Singam

Bernard Cheah, The Sun

Penang Chief Minister's Chief of Staff Jeff Ooi Chuan Aun has called for a domestic inquiry to be carried out on a Penang Island Municipal Council (MPPP) councillor for alleged abused of power over a stop-work order issued against a condominium developer in Batu Lanchang. 

By Khairy Jamaluddin

The Opposition announced yesterday in Parliament the formation of  their ‘Shadow Parliamentary Committees’ in an effort to divert the attention of the public from the serious cracks emerging in Pakatan Rakyat, on the same day that it cancelled the leadership meeting reportedly meant to discuss Kedah DAP’s decision to leave the coalition.

What is truly a game-changer is the formation of a shadow front bench. Yesterday, Pakatan announced that it had assigned MPs from each of its component parties to shadow all of the 25 ministries in the Cabinet. For once, someone in the opposition will be responsible for delving into the particulars of policymaking.

By John Lee, The Malaysian Insider

(The Star) - Sarawak National Party (SNAP) has predicted that the state assembly would be dissolved three months from now to pave way for an early state election.

By Putt For Change

SINCE INDEPENDENCE, our nation’s history has been strewn with countless instances of our politicians making racist remarks or even practicing unbridled racism to incite hatreds among the various races for their (politicians) own selfish and corrupted agenda.

Pendaftaran pengundi cetuskan perbalahan, 3 orang cendera termasuk dua orang ADUN

By Lee Wee Tak

Laporan di akhbar Sin Chew Jit Poh yang berkenaan

Dasar ekonomi terbuka dan terkangkang ini akan menjemput kapitalis antarabangsa – dengan alasan untuk melabor dan membawa modal. Ini betul-betul hujah dari kertas kerja John Perkins. Inilah cara yang digunakan oleh Perkins untuk memastikan sesebuah negara itu akhirnya akan dapat dijajah kembali.

DARI JELEBU

Hishamuddin Rais

By Farish A. Noor, The Nut Graph

MASS hypocrisy season comes and goes in Malaysia with the regularity of the monsoon or the haze.

Farish A. Noor

THE historian’s lament is that he or she is often witness to mistakes of the past, and yet is unable to prevent them from recurring. In the end, the historian is cursed with the Cassandra complex and accused of being a tiresome doom sayer.

Farish A. Noor

Studying Malaysian politics is a chore in itself, but rewarding for the simple reason that it is one of the most plural, complex and complicated countries in the world.

Malaysia Today continues with the exposes on the many scandals involving Malaysia’s national airlines, Malaysian Airlines. Today is a report by Dr David Stone with regards to the fuel scandal involving the airlines. There is more to come in the next episodes in these series of articles where we shall talk about the cargo handling and cartel scandals.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

by Dr David Stone
http://www.insidetraveller.co.uk

By Deborah Loh, The Nut Graph

ON 25 Nov 2007, the Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) burst into public consciousness through a mammoth street rally. Few doubt that Hindraf was pivotal in swinging Indian Malaysian votes away from the Barisan Nasional (BN) three months later in the March 2008 general election.

(The Star) - The father-and-son team of Lim Kit Siang and Guan Eng has not walked the talk in their criticisms of MCA, said MCA Special Task Force Bureau chief Simon Lim.