The Cabinet had discussed “a couple of meetings ago” whether to declassify toll concession agreements, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.
He however declined to elaborate on the matter, saying that he would get Works Minister Datuk Mohd Zin Mohamed to make a statement.
“Was it (declassification of toll concession agreements) as reported in [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian state oil firm Petronas will invest 700 million ringgit ($194.8 million) in energy projects in Uzbekistan within the next three years, a Malaysian newspaper reported on Sunday.

Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will announce the investment during a three-day working visit to the gas-rich Central Asian state beginning Sunday, the New [...]

Pada hari Jumaat Malaysiakini memaparkan Raja Nazrin: Pemerintah tidak akan bertindak sekiranya diberikan nasihat yang salah.
Selain dari bergembira bilamana kita mungkin mendapat sedikit semakan dan imbangan dari raja, perbezaannya ialah saya diselubungi kedukaan. Saya langsung tidak teruja dengan ucapan YTM Tuanku.
Demokrasi Malaysia, ketuat atau tidak, sudah pun mempunyai sistem semakan dan imbangan, yang harus [...]

Kanika Batra
When the World Bank touted Malaysia as an “emerging Tiger” economy based on its rapid economic growth between 1965 and 1990, the surge of optimism in the country was unmistakable. With abundant employment opportunities, soaring salaries and freely available consumer goods, the lifestyle of a select few compared with the best anywhere in the [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Malaysia will announce a fuel price cut on Sunday or Monday following a steep drop in the price of crude oil, a government minister said on Saturday.
“You can expect an adjustment in the fuel price because the average crude oil price for the past two weeks has been below [...]

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has suspended imports of whole chicken and chicken parts from Thailand with immediate effect following a bird flu scare in the neighbouring country, state media reported.
Agriculture Minister Mustapa Mohamed said the government stopped issuing permits for the import of Thai chicken as a precautionary measure after bird flu broke out in Thailand [...]

Gleaned this enlightening info from the net. Much of this I already knew; this source from Australia merely confirms it:
The success of the Hizb ut-Tahrir group in Malaysia was seen as potentially a major “radicalising influence” that Australia should keep an eye on.
Dedicated to establishing Islamic rule by overthrowing Western governments, Hizb ut-Tahrir is [...]

Amnesty International identifies at least 83 countries where homosexuality is illegal. 34 of them are predominantly Muslim. In Malaysia, a country seen as moderately Islamic, the punishment for an ‘unnatural’ sexual act is 20 years in prison, plus a fine or whipping.
Opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim, (pictured left) was previously imprisoned for sodomy. He is again facing [...]

A composite team of the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) will go to Malaysia to verify firsthand the allegations of human rights abuses against Filipino overseas workers particularly those cThe Commission on Human Rights (CHR) is set to send a team to Malaysia to verify firsthand the allegations of human rights abuses against Filipino overseas [...]

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – Malaysian authorities have seized more than 7,000 monitor lizards and the carcasses of 13 protected species destined to be sold to restaurants and medicine shops, reports said Thursday.
Officials from the Department of Wildlife and National Parks came across the huge hoard in two raids, director general Abdul Rasid [...]