Aug 16th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 16 – The High Court today granted Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim a stay of trial proceedings pending his appeal against a court decision earlier today by Judge Datuk Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah. Mohd Zabidin had earlier rejected Anwar’s application to strike out the sodomy charge against him following allegations of an affair between a …
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Aug 13th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 13 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim today expressed shock that the long-awaited Bakun Dam project would likely face further delay and incur RM2 billion in extra costs, which could have been translated into subsidies for the public. The parliamentary Opposition Leader said the estimated savings of RM750 million from the recent subsidy …
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Aug 12th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 12 – Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim dismissed today the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC)’s ability to investigate the alleged abuse of endorsement letters by two Klang municipal councillors, after calls from Umno demanding that the anti-graft agency take over the probe from the Selangor state government.
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Aug 10th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 10 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim will find out next Monday, August 16, whether he will be successful in his bid to have the sodomy charge against him dropped due to repercussions of an alleged affair between a prosecutor and the complainant.
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Aug 9th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 — The High Court here refused today to call star witness Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan and deputy public prosecutor Farah Azlina Latif to answer allegations about their “affair” during Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s Sodomy II trial. Judge Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah rejected the application by Anwar’s lawyers to compel Farah and Saiful to …
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Aug 9th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 — Lead defence counsel in Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s Sodomy II trial Karpal Singh demanded today that star witness Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan and deputy public prosecutor Farah Azlina Latif answer the “affair” allegations in open court. Karpal said that it was important for the two to testify as witnesses in court as their …
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Aug 6th
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 6 — Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was dealt a huge blow today when a three-member Court Of Appeal here unanimously dismissed his application to obtain access to Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan’s medical reports for his ongoing Sodomy II trial. Anwar’s appeal today was against a High Court decision in June that also dismissed his application …
Read more here: Court of Appeal says no to Anwar
Aug 5th
SUNGAI SIPUT, Aug 5 – Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today the government would not bow to foreign pressure over Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial, adding that Al Gore’s and Paul Wolfowitz’s remarks yesterday in the Wall Street Journal were a sign of the Opposition Leader’s desperation. Former US vice president Al Gore and former US deputy …
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Aug 2nd
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 – Star witness in Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s Sodomy II trial Mohd Saiful Bukhari Azlan insisted today that the “truth will prevail’, in an apparent response to accusations of him being romantically linked with deputy public prosecutor Farah Azlina Latif.
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Aug 1st
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 — Barisan Nasional (BN) is looking to solve three pressing issues — the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) case, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s second sodomy trial and Teoh Beng Hock’s mysterious death — before considering a call for snap elections. The Malaysian Insider understands that BN leaders have privately agreed that these issues, …
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