Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is suing the News Straits Times for RM100 million in damages, for insinuating he is an American agent in an article written six years ago.
The English-language daily’s former deputy group editor Datin Rose Ismail today denied defaming Anwar in the article.
The Kuala Lumpur High Court heard both their testimonies.
Meantime [...]

Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim has lost a final bid to have his sodomy trial held in a lower court, ending a long wrangle over where the case should be heard, his lawyer said Thursday.
The Court of Appeal rejected the application and affirmed an earlier decision that the politically charged case should be heard in [...]

Malaysia’s opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Monday he is confident a court will find no evidence of sodomy when his case, which has inflamed political passions in Malaysia, resumes in July. Anwar, who spent six years in jail on a 1998 sodomy conviction that was ultimately overturned, faces a 20-year sentence if convicted on [...]

The Court of Appeal yesterday returned a unanimous decision that Barisan Nasional’s Datuk Zambry Abd Kadir is the rightful Perak mentri besar, ruling that his Pakatan Rakyat rival Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddinn had ceased to command the majority in the Perak state assembly.
The judges also ruled that the Sultan was right in appointing Zambry [...]

Malaysia’s National Front government, armed with a court order, took control of Perak state again on Tuesday in a development that will likely deepen political divisions in the country.
An appeals court decision on Tuesday delayed the handover of power to the national opposition after they won the right on Monday in the High Court to [...]

Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has won the first battle in his Sodomy II trial.
Today, the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court judge S M Komathy Suppiah ruled the certificate signed by the Attorney-General requesting the case be transferred to the High Court was invalid.
This will give a fillip to Anwar’s fight against the sodomy charge [...]