Time To Abide By Referee’s Decision On Lynas

Some people just don’t know when to abide by the referee’s decision and get on with the game. Despite the fact the residents’ appeal against the Lynas Rare Earth Plant has been dismissed, despite the fact that the mining company has agreed to the extra safety measures imposed by the Science, Technology and Innovation Ministry and despite the fact today’s Parliamentary Selected Committee report will give the operation the all-clear, the most...

Read More

Cassano, Balotelli Send Italy Through

POZNAN  — Antonio Cassano’s first-half header and Mario Balotelli’s spectacular late volley gave Italy a 2-0 win over Ireland which took them into the Euro 2012 quarter-finals as Group C runners-up. Cassano, who missed half the season with AC Milan after undergoing a minor heart operation, headed home 10 minutes before the break and Balotelli brilliantly hooked the ball home in the final minute to leave Italy second with five points...

Read More

Lynas Injunction Application Hearing On July 19

KUALA LUMPUR – The High Court postponed to July 19 the inter-partes injunction hearing by Lynas Corporation Limited and Lynas Malaysia Sdn Bhd to restrain ‘Save Malaysia, Stop Lynas’ (SMSL), an anti-Lynas group and its two directors from further publishing defamatory article on Lynas. SMSL’s counsel Datuk Bastian Pius Vendargon told reporters that Lynas had served its affidavit pertaining to the injunction hearing to the defendants yesterday. He...

Read More

Europe Vows Closer Union At G20 Summit

LOS CABOS, Mexico – Under pressure from financial markets and anxious world leaders, Europe agreed yesterday to move towards a more integrated banking system to stem a debt crisis that threatens the survival of the euro. At a Group of 20 summit of the world’s leading industrialised and developing economies in this Mexican resort, Germany and its big euro zone partners took the unusual step of spelling out in detail measures to complete the...

Read More

Tyson To Take Tale To Broadway

NEW YORK – From the boxing ring to Broadway – Mike Tyson said Monday he’s teaming up with director Spike Lee to take his one-man show “Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” to the New York stage. Tyson, the former heavyweight world champion and self-styled “baddest man  on the planet,” debuted the show in Las Vegas in April, pulling few punches in  recounting the highs and highly publicized lows of his career. Now he plans to bring the...

Read More

Microsoft ‘Surface’ Tablet Set To Take On iPad

LOS ANGELES – Microsoft on Monday unveiled a Surface tablet computer as the technology titan steps in with its own hardware to take on Apple’s market-ruling iPads. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer described the iPad challenger as a  tablet that “works and plays” when he showed it off at a press event in Los  Angeles. Surface is also the name of table and poster-sized touch screen computers  that Microsoft has pitched...

Read More

Justin Bieber Grows Up, Gets Even On ‘Believe’

LOS ANGELES — Canadian pop star Justin Bieber makes his highly anticipated return with new album “Believe,” revealing an edgier, grown-up side to the young star who has gained a worldwide fan base with innocent love songs and baby-faced charms. “Believe,” out today, serves as Bieber’s highly anticipated sequel to his debut album “My World 2.0,” and has had critics buzzing on whether the teen who first found fame on YouTube is a short-lived...

Read More

3 Killed, 10 Missing In Indonesia Landslide

JAKARTA  – Three people were killed and 10 missing on Tuesday after they were buried in a landslide caused by heavy rain in eastern Indonesia, a rescue official said. “Heavy rains in Ambon city, Maluku province, triggered a landslide early  this morning,” Ambon city search-and-rescue chief Brory Tjokro told AFP. “Three people were killed and two were rescued safely. Ten people are still  missing and rescuers are still looking...

Read More

Thai South Affected By Indonesia’s Haze

BANGKOK – Thailand’s Southern Meteorological Centre (East Coast) in Songkhla province reported on Monday that the southwest monsoon covering the southern Thai region currently could bring with it haze from annual forest fires on the Sumatra Island in Indonesia. The centre’s director Wanchai Sakudomchai, told journalists that satellite images showed there were some 163 hot spots on the Sumatra Island and the prevailing southwest monsoon wind...

Read More

Lim Guan Eng’s Big Lies Starting To Show

Lim Guan Eng aka God’s answer to Chinese Malaysians is feeling panicky. We hear he has been like a cat on a hot tin roof after the deputy Prime Minister entered his territory in Bagan. The crowd was incredible and Muhyiddin Yassin gave a blistering speech and poked holes in all the lies and boastful claims that Lim Guan Eng has been making the last 4 years. He shredded the CM’s boast that millions of ringgit of foreign investment poured...

Read More

Penang DAP Exco Blames Previous Govt

KUALA LUMPUR: Hillside development in Penang was approved by the previous Barisan Nasional state government and the current DAP-led Penang government can’t do anything about it, says DAP state executive councillor Phee Bon Poh. The state Environment, Health and Caring Society Welfare exco told The Mole the Penang government could not stop the approved hillside projects as they might have to face lawsuits and bear the losses incurred by the...

Read More

PAS Plays Politics Over Haj Dates

With the dates of GE 13 not yet decided, PAS has been criticised for trying to politicise the Haj issue. The party has reportedly called on its supporters to postpone their Haj pilgrimage if the election is scheduled between the middle of August and the last week of October. Umno parliamentarians have advised PAS not to manipulate the minds of Muslim voters by politicising the issue. They were responding to the demand by PAS leaders that...

Read More

The Tale Of The Terrible 3 A’s – Ambiga Breaks Up With Anwar & Azmin?

Ambiga – From Hero to Zero The word is out. Ambiga has told her inner circle NGO circle that she wants nothing more to do with Anwar Ibrahim and Azmin Ali. She has been fuming ever since the Berish 3 fiasco that has made her look like a fool. What more, having to put up with butts and beef burgers in her frontyard. The love affair has ended. Poor Ambiga has been taken for a ride by Anwar and gang. Yes, we noticed that the only people allowed...

Read More