KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 — Raja Petra Kamarudin wants to meet Bukit Aman officers at his hotel in Bangkok tomorrow and not at the Malaysian embassy tonight, as initial reports had suggested.

Earlier this evening, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar disclosed that a request had been made to the visiting blogger after Raja Petra’s Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) announced the Malaysia Today portal editor had been asked to give a statement.

Khalid did not divulge the nature of the meeting with Raja Petra but it is understood the statement is connected to the blogger’s statutory declaration made on June 18, 2008 over the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case. continue reading

KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 — Traffic police will not be “hiding behind bushes” any more to trap speeding motorists, newly promoted Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar said today.

He said that in a bid to be more transparent, motorists will be warned about speed traps.

“We should not be hiding behind bushes. We should come out in the open and enforce the law,” he told reporters at a community function called “A Day with the Police”.

Since September 2009, police have issued summons to over 2.5 million motorists, mainly through speed traps and speed cameras mounted along major highways and city streets. continue reading

KUALA LUMPUR, April 22 — Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin joined netizens today in their Twitter rampage against the 1 Malaysia e-mail project, calling a Pemandu official a “little Napoleon” for saying the government would have to pay for the service.

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KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 – Lim Kit Siang mocked Datuk Seri Najib Razak as being “another Pak Lah” for failing to control his party newspaper, Utusan Malaysia, which proposed a narrow racial movement that contradicts the prime minister’s 1 Malaysia concept.

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KUALA LUMPUR, April 23 — Penang will not be a site for a nuclear plant if Putrajaya decides on the energy option due to the state’s dense population, Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng revealed today.

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