A few days ago on a website, Uthayakumar suggested Penang State Government to secure RM50 million Federal Grant to beautify and upgrade Kampung Buah Pala’s traditional features.

First thing that came to mind was RM50 million? Not RM50,000 ? How far can you go with RM50 million beautification and upgrading work? Very far indeed if you ask me.

The mystery that shroudded the contents of Tunku Abdul Rahman’s safe was finally solved today when it was opened.
   
It did not contain any documents but nine boxes that kept numerous personal memorabilia of the first prime minister, believed to be given to him by foreign and local leaders of his era.
   

Razali Ibrahim and Nasrudin Hassan

Just weeks after the unity talks proposal between PAS and UMNO has been put to rest, PAS Youth is now inviting its counterpart in UMNO for an “intellectual discourse” to discuss current issues.

The discourse is expected to take place after the Manek Urai by-election on July 14.

  Thomas Su Keong Siong and Azizan Razak

DAP pulled out of the state Pakatan Rakyat government yesterday after accusing Pas of being insensitive to the needs of the Chinese by demolishing an abattoir for pigs.

It removed Kota Darulaman state assemblyman Lee Guan Aik from the state-level opposition coalition on grounds that this was only one of several incidents where the interests of minority communities had been ignored.

Dr. Oh Ei Sun (centre), Bintulu Member of Parliament, Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing and Publicity Secretary of  State Democratic Action Party (DAP), David Wong.

Academician Dr. Oh Ei Sun, who is also a highly sought international speaker-trainer-motivator, consultant and entrepreneur, has been appointed political secretary to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak.

An official from the Prime Minister's Office said the appointment was effective June 16. The 35-year-old Sabahan, trained in law, management, engineering and the languages, has extensive experience serving various international and world bodies under the United Nations.

Najib Tun Razak

Malaysia made sweeping changes today to its capital markets, cutting Bumiputera equity quotas for share offerings and in fund management firms while trimming the role of a powerful but conservative panel overseeing foreign investments.

Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak dropped the 30 per cent Bumiputera equity requirement for Malaysian firms seeking public listing, the cornerstone of the New Economic Policy (NEP), but they will now have to offer 50 per cent of the public shareholding spread to Bumiputera investors. “The 30 per cent requirement remains but it is a macro objective,” the prime minister told reporters after announcing the changes while launching the InvestMalaysia week and meeting with senior fund managers.

US President Barack Obama telephoned Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak tonight at his private residence at No 11 Langgak Duta and spoke for more than half an hour. Among others Obama praised Malaysia for being a progressive and modern Islamic country.

He said Obama praised Malaysia as an example of a modern and progressive country where the multi-religious and multi-ethnic make up has made Malaysia the envy of other countries with a similar make up, but living with brutal ethnic tension.

Malaysia Instinct has been trying hard to unveil the recently posted videos of certain characters to get to the the bottom of these 'hot videos'. However, each time our team got to the location mentioned in the video, in hope to interview the accusers, we got no positive response. The videos in question accuses the prie minister's wife, Datin Seri Rosmah of delving into witchcraft and murder.

But surprise surprise! We were sent an email (from someone, presumably close to the family of the accusers) mentioning the status of one of the characters in the video, Ikmal H. Besides providing information that the accuser was a bankrupt, it also mentioned the recent windfall of the accuser, as well as naming a relative of the accuser, one Rosni Bt Abdul Malek (pictured above -  inset left of picture of Datin Che Mah). Rosni is said to be the sister of Ikmal (inset right), daughter to Che Mah, and holds the position of Director of Information Technology in the Prime Minister's Department. The email also provides the history of Datin Che Mah, however, it stops short of naming the people behind C4 production. Given our new lead, we hope that Pn Rosni will be able to shed light on who and what are the objectives of the video concerned.