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The State Government views seriously the incident where the police and JAIS raided a multi-racial dinner at the Damansara Utama Methodist Church in Petaling Jaya last night.

Menteri Besar Tan Sri Dato’ Seri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim has called Senior Pastor Daniel Ho to personally express his regrets regarding the incident. Read more »

Bersih 2.0 chairperson Ambiga Sreenevasan today failed in her bid to challenge an order for her deportation order from Sarawak by the state immigration department last April during its polls.

This follows the Kuala Lumpur High Court's dismissal this morning of Ambiga's application for leave (permission) to initiate a judicial review proceeding over the order. Read more »

Two years on from one of Pakistan’s worst outbreaks of anti-Christian violence Muslim leaders have publicly apologised to people who lost loved ones, homes and businesses.

Marking the second anniversary of the violence in the Punjab’s Gojra city where eight people died, two ‘Pirs’ (holy men) addressed the crowds asking for pardon on behalf of the extremist mobs who carried out the atrocity. Read more »

The "digital age" generation flocking to Madrid for World Youth Day in a couple week's time will be made aware of one of the darker sides of digital culture: the flourishing business of Internet pornography. 

Thanks to an award-winning documentary created by Anteroom Pictures in New York City, the pornography industry will be exposed and analyzed before the young audience. Read more »

The family of nurse S Shamala - who is embroiled in a legal battle for custody of her children following her husband's conversion to Islam - has instructed her lawyers to discharge themselves.

However, the Court of Appeal would not allow this to take effect until the lawyers can officially inform Shamala, who is said to be living in Australia with her two sons.

The court therefore postponed the hearing which had been fixed for today (Aug 1, 2011). Read more »

The MACC knew at the outset that without a confession from Teoh Beng Hock they would be unable to prove any wrongdoing against the state government of Selangor.

However, the RCI concluded that the MACC tried to extract a confession from Teoh Beng Hock but the ruse backfired when instead the RCI pointed its finger at the perpetrators at the MACC with a finding that it was the MACC’s own personnel who had driven Teoh Beng Hock to suicide. Read more »

The police today released the six PSM leaders who had been held without trial under the Emergency Ordinance since July 2.

“The six have been released unconditionally. It is official,” said their legal counsel D Yudistira after a meeting with CID deputy director Hadi Ho Abdullah.

They were released at 5.30pm at the Sentul police district headquarters in Jinjang. Read more »