News by Sangeetha Amarthalingam

Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department Datuk Liew Vui Keong: Keep your finger crossed, hopefully by next week. It is in the pipeline as I said before, we will prepare the memorandum and submit to the Cabinet for approval.

“We can see the construction cost is RM32 billion (but) this does not take into consideration other costs which I am sure would rise to RM50 billion.”

"What he is trying to do is to try and renegotiate the loans (received from Chinese banks) and the contracts we have given to Chinese companies because we find that they are costly."

"The reduction of the price is very difficult as far as we can make out. So it will have to be deferred,"

Lim said SST is a single-stage tax imposed on manufacturers and not on end customers...

"What we are concerned [about] is the impact towards the end user, and SST would have [less] impact to them."

“I informed the Cabinet on July 11 that AG Tommy Thomas opined that this issue must be resolved in accordance to the law."

CZC said last week the bridge would require additional considerations like a suitable height to enable larger ships to pass beneath it, and to accommodate a light rail line underneath it as well.

“The Malaysian Bar believes that such disclosure by the judge was necessary to preserve the integrity of the proceedings before him and to avoid any real danger of bias."

“A gag order on the media is against media freedom and would punish the local media but not foreign media, as that is outside the court’s powers.”