Paris Papers: Perimekar just a travel agency

Having had the privilege of looking at some of the Paris Papers on the Scorpene submarine scandal recently, it behoves me to give anxious landlubbers a ‘hitchhiker's guide' to this convoluted mesh of payments that have gone on to grease this most expensive (more than RM7 billion) arms purchase in Malaysia's history.

Since Suaram lodged its complaint with the French courts for a judicial review of the Scorpene contract in November 2009, the French prosecutors have certainly been busy with their investigations.

STAR Sabah kesal pembentukan Malaysia dilakukan tergesa gesa oleh pemimpin terdahulu

Oleh: KULI KULI AK

Datuk Dr Jeffrey berucap ketika melancarkan Parti
Star di DUN Kemabong.

KEMABONG: Pemimpin terdahulu telah membuat keputusan tergesa-gesa dalam persetujuan pembentukan Malaysia melalui penyatuan Tanah Melayu, Sabah, Sarawak dan Singapura. Ini adalah antara punca utama hak asasi rakyat Sabah sepertimana yang terkandung dalam 20 Perkara mudah dimanipulasikan oleh pihak persekutuan.

Negara Brunei dan Singapura yang kini jauh lebih maju dan pesat membangun malah memiliki ekonomi yang jauh lebih baik berbanding Sabah selepas mereka tidak meneruskan untuk bersama dalam pembentukkan Malaysia pada ketika itu (Singapura keluar dari Malaysia tahun 1965).

Support for Jeffrey's calls to leave Sabah parties alone

RANAU : State Reform Party's (Star) Sabah chairman, Datuk Dr Jeffrey Kitingan has again repeated and reiterated his call for Malaya-based political parties especially the Pakatan Rakyat to consider focusing its aim at wresting all the 165 Parliamentary seats at stake in the 11-state Peninsular and to leave Sabah and Sarawak parties to stand in the rest 57 in both states and one in Labuan.

How NEP works

Three contractors are bidding to fix a broken fence at the PM's residence.

One is from MIC , another is from MCA , and the third is from UMNO.

All three go with a PM's House-official to examine the fence.

Russia's military threatens preemptive strike if NATO goes ahead with missile plan

By Mansur Mirovalev, The Associated Press
MOSCOW - Russia's top military officer has threatened to carry out a pre-emptive strike on U.S.-led NATO missile defence facilities in Eastern Europe if Washington goes ahead with its controversial plan to build a missile shield.

President Dmitry Medvedev said last year that Russia will retaliate militarily if it does not reach an agreement with the United States and NATO on the missile defence system.