SHAH ALAM, 14 January – Selangor Dato’ Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim today denied allegations that he used funds from Kumpulan Darul Ehsan Berhad (KDEB) to purchase a Toyota Lexus for personal use.
He said the allegation by former Menteri Besar, Dato’ Seri Dr Mohamad Khir Toyo was deliberately fabricated.
“The Lexus is mine which [...]

SHAH ALAM, 14 January – The Selangor State government today decided to give one-year scholarship grants for five to 10 Malay and Indian students from this state to further their business studies in China.
Dato’ Menteri Besar, Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim said the grants amounting to RM100,000 per student would only be awarded to those [...]

SHAH ALAM, 14 January – The eight-man delegation lead by advisor to the Saudi Arabian King Raja Abdullah Abdul Aziz AlSaud,  His Excellency Prince Dr. Bandar Salman, today had a special audience with the DYMM Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Alhaj.
Also present in the hour-long meeting at the Istana Bukit Kayangan, here today, [...]

SHAH ALAM, 13 January – The state government says the purchase of Toyota Camrys to replace the Proton Perdana V6 Eksekutif as an official car, will not at all affect any of the state’s welfare projects to “Merakyatkan Ekonomi” that have been planned.
While stressing that the decision for that purchase was decided in last week’s [...]

Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim today explained that the purchase of 15 Toyota Camrys as official state cars was done based on quotation and not through open tenders.
He said, the state government had previously looked at all quotations from several car companies before coming to a decision.
“After looking at the quotations by those companies, the [...]

PAS has named Abdul Wahid Endut, the state assemblyman for Wakaf Mempelam, as the Pakatan Rakyat candidate for the Kuala Terengganu parliamentary by-election.

In Kuala Lumpur for a meeting, KeADILan leader Sim Tze Tsin was far away from his constituency in Pantai Jerejak, but still holding sway in his mind was an issue that has been dominating national attention and is of particular concern to lower-income Penangites.
The 32-year old first-time state assemblyman is passionate about the Pakatan Rakyat [...]

Pakatan Rakyat leader Lim Kit Siang has criticised the appointment of Ahmad Said Hamdan – the existing head of the soon-to-be-defunct Anti-Corruption Agency – as the first commissioner for the much-hyped Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission.
“The implication is very clear – that the ACA had corruption cases which it has not been able to prosecute because of [...]