Saya pernah menulis bagaimana konflik kian mekar di Pemuda UMNO antara 'Ketua Pengawas'nya, YB Khairy Jamaluddin atau KJ dengan 'Pemangku' Ketua Pemuda, YB Dato' Razali Ibrahim.

Written by Chan Kok Leong & Sharon Tan, The Edge 

It was a fiery finale as a war of words, an ejection, a walkout and fines brought an end to the second session of Parliament 2009 today.

Umno’s “magnificent four” paid RM4,000 in fines tonight to Parliament and also asked for forgiveness from the Dewan Rakyat and the Speaker.

By Deborah Loh, The Nut Graph

While other Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders today glossed over Kedah DAP's pullout of the state government, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng had a different view.

Leaders of Pakatan Rakyat (PR) parties will meet this weekend as cracks widened within the fledgling coalition of DAP, PKR and PAS, in an attempt to resolve the crisis in the alliance.

The PKR Kulim Bandar Baru MP today defended the Kedah state government’s decision to demolish a pig abattoir in Kampung Berjaya, the oldest and the only such facility in the state capital.

Umno members of parliament claimed today they were not surprised at Kedah DAP’s decision to pull out of the PAS-led state government and said that a collapse of the Pakatan Rakyat (PR) was only a matter of time.

(Bernama) - A new Chinese weekly, “Red Tomato”, is set to hit the streets today, bringing the concept of free newspaper to the Chinese reader market in the Klang Valley.

(The Star) - The judge might have been away, but this did not stop the prosecution and the defence from arguing their case in the High Court here Thursday.

KOTA BHARU, 2 Julai (Hrkh) - Biar pun Dato' Seri Najib Razak menolak pelawaan untuk berdebat dengan Tuan Guru Dato' Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, namun Menteri Besar Kelantan tetap menghantar surat kepada Perdana Menteri.

Stanley Koh, Malaysian Mirror

After five years, the national service (NS) training camps across the country continue to be spooked by ugly and tragic incidents of sexual molest, physical fights, food poisoning, sudden deaths and drowning.

PAS Youth secretary Kamaruzaman Mohamad described the joint secretariat to be set up as just a ‘technical secretariat’ which will “discuss the time, date, place, participants and format" of the discourse.

Honeymah Dylyani, Malaysian Mirror

(Bernama) - The Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Sikhism and Taoism has expressed confidence that the Malay rulers will protect the interests of all Malaysians - Muslims and non-Muslims - on the issue of conversion of minors to Islam.

By Matthias Chang

Any genuine attempts by the government to mitigate the effects of the global financial tsunami and promote growth of the economy must be applauded and I do so here in this column. It is better late than never.

Ramli refused to sweep the entire episode under the carpet. And because of that they came for him. And when he engaged a lawyer to defend him, and the lawyer successfully proved that the allegations against Ramli were unfounded, they came for the lawyer as well.

THE CORRIDORS OF POWER

Raja Petra Kamarudin

In fact, I had called Musa in Parliament as a ‘lobbyist” for mega-contracts, whether for a proposed RM20 billion police helicopter project or the RM4.2 billion “E-Police Force Solution”, and I have not received any satisfactory answer from Home Minister.

Lim Kit Siang

By Analyst at Large

The mainstream media has been trumpeting liberalization measures announced by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak at the InvestMalaysia Conference on Tuesday.

(The Straits Times) - FOREIGN investment in Malaysia has plummeted this year, Trade Minister Mustapa Mohamed said on Thursday after the government announced liberalisation measures aimed at luring investors.

By Lee Wee Tak

I applauded the bold move by Najib on the economic reforms. Of course the most telling change is that the 30% bumiputra quota requirement for companies seeking to list on the Bursa Malaysia has been done away.

This monster called FIC is indeed an absurd product of a bygone era. Despite the harms it has done on the national economy, the committee has been made a sacred cow--something that must never be offended--under the protective net of the NEP.

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

By Nat Tan

Well, ok, it may not *exactly* be in the shape some of us imagined, as YB’s Azmin and Tony explained; but this is exactly the configuration I have always thought would be most practical, given the Pakatan context and dynamics.

Pakatan Rakyat (PR) today announced the formation of committees made up of MPs to shadow the Barisan Nasional's (BN) 25 Cabinet ministers.

By Tohkong Mosjid

1. Swine
Swine brain politicians. Cleanliness is the issue here.

What are the obstacles to a united Bangsa Malaysia? Clearly, not vernacular schools per se. To answer that question truthfully will take lots of soul-searching, reflection & honest conversation among Malaysians.

By Malaysian Heart

Khoo Kay Peng

Hindraf has demanded that the new Penang government step in to resolve the ongoing crisis in Kampung Buah Pala. Hindraf leader P Waythamoorthy sharpened his attacks by accusing Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng of being a party to the allegedly fraudulent transaction of Kampung Buah Pala village land in Bukit Gelugor.

By Shannon Teoh, The Malaysian Insider

Now it is Hindraf's turn to deal with disagreements from within its ranks. Senior leader V.S. Ganapathi Rao came out unexpectedly to defend Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng over the Kampung Buah Pala demolition issue.

(The Star) - Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will be tried for his sodomy charge in the High Court, the Court of Appeal ruled.

The People's Parliament

On 20th November, last year, I had written to JAKIM requesting for a fatwa on the question of whether concepts of ‘Ketuanan Melayu’ and the Bumiputra-non Bumi distinction that seems to be constantly pursued by UMNO is unIslamic.

(Bernama) - The actual cause of death of police detainee Choong Soy Soy, 55, will be known by July 17 when the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital in Ipoh completes the post-mortem report, Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk T. Murugiah said today.

(Malaysian Mirror) - Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, who faces trial this month on sodomy charges, said his Pakatan Rakyat alliance would survive even if he is convicted and jailed.Anwar rejected allegations levelled by a 23-year-old former aide as a conspiracy to derail his plan to topple the government.