Mawi to wed Nora’Ashikin soon

Tuesday October 21, 2008
http://thestar.com.my/

KUALA LUMPUR: Popular singer Mawi is expected to announce today the much-anticipated news of him tying the knot with actress Nora’Ashikin Rahmat.
Mawi is scheduled to make his wedding announcement at a press conference in a hotel here.
It is believed the couple will tie the knot on Dec 20 in Johor.
The bersanding ceremony [...]

Rais: I’ve been asked to pay for my votes

Malaysiakini

Oct 20, 08 3:28pm

A veteran Umno leader today said he had been asked to pay for votes in an upcoming contest for top posts, and warned that money politics would destroy the organisation.
MCPX
Foreign Minister Rais Yatim said “the majority” of Umno members were more interested in making money out of the election than in voting [...]

Red leader dies at 84

http://thestar.com.my/
Tuesday October 21, 2008
By MARTIN VENGADESAN
KUALA LUMPUR: Shamsiah Fa­­keh , the communist leader who spent nearly 40 years in exile in China, died at 9am yesterday at her home at Jalan Kuchai Lama here following a lung infection. She was 84.
Her businessman son Jama­luddin Ibrahim, 46, said: “She was in Hospital UKM for more than [...]