RPK Part1 and part 2 - I did not go to the Embassy

On April 23, 2011, Raja Petra was reportedly asked to head for the embassy immediately after his talk at Bangkok's Florida Hotel. The event also served to launch MCLM's Thailand chapter..

Raja Petra said he would not be going to the Malaysian embassy but instead offered to meet the officials at his hotel the next day.

Raja Petra’s statement important

Fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin’s statement is important in the investigation over a police report lodged against him on April 14, says Attorney-General Tan Sri Abdul Gani Patail.

Police trick to bring RPK back to KL, says lawyer

Haris: Why would the investigating officer come all the way to Bangkok to question a witness to a possible crime and not have a copy of the police report with him? The whole thing stank.

The police bid to interview Raja Petra Kamarudin at the Malaysian embassy in Bangkok was a trap to bring the controversial blogger back home, his lawyer said today.

Lawyer Haris Ibrahim said he warned the Malaysia Today editor to insist on having his statement taken at a Bangkok hotel rather than in the embassy, which is considered Malaysian territory.

“We voiced our concerns that the embassy, in international law deemed as Malaysian soil, we feared that this whole business of taking his statement there was a ruse to get him in there, effect an arrest and then, with or without the aid of the local authorities, have him repatriated back to Kamunting,” Haris said in a posting at his harismibrahim.wordpress.com blog.

Raja Petra was in Bangkok to launch his Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) Thai chapter in his capacity as the group’s chairman. Haris is the MCLM president.

Concern over baby dumping

Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor urges all parties including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to work together in overcoming social problems, especially baby dumping.

Police: Raja Petra speaking to Bukit Aman officers in Bangkok

MCLM said in a statement that Raja Petra is not under arrest.

Raja Petra Kamarudin wants to meet Bukit Aman officers at his hotel in Bangkok tomorrow and not at the Malaysian embassy tonight, as initial reports had suggested.

Earlier this evening, Deputy Inspector-General of Police Datuk Khalid Abu Bakar disclosed that a request had been made to the visiting blogger after Raja Petra’s Malaysian Civil Liberties Movement (MCLM) announced the Malaysia Today portal editor had been asked to give a statement.

Khalid did not divulge the nature of the meeting with Raja Petra but it is understood the statement is connected to the blogger’s statutory declaration made on June 18, 2008 over the Altantuya Shaariibuu murder case.

Concern over baby dumping

Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor urges all parties including non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to work together in overcoming social problems, especially baby dumping.

MAF probe on senior military officer allegedly associated with RPK

The Defence Ministry has identified one of its senior officers who was allegedly involved in a conspiracy to malign a government leader in connection with the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu.

The officer has been relieved of official duties pending investigations.

Malaysian Armed Forces (MAF) chief Tan Sri Azizan Ariffin said the military was conducting a probe into the alleged involvement of the officer, a colonel.

"Information supplied by the officer to blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin was false and it had never existed in our files," he said in a statement Friday.

RPK: I’m no sellout

Raja Petra said he will not be coming back to Malaysia, at least not until the government changes.

Controversial blogger Raja Petra Kamarudin insisted today he is still behind the opposition cause and denied that he has sold out after giving an interview to TV3.

He caused a stir two days ago when he said on the national television station that he never accused Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife of being behind the gruesome 2006 murder of Mongolian woman Altantuya Shariibuu.

The editor of the Malaysia Today news portal explained his actions in an email interview with The Malaysian Insider. The full text is reproduced below.

TMI: You were recently in Australia, meaning you have a passport to travel. Where are you now and where are you based? Will you be coming back to Malaysia soon?

RPK: I am currently in Bali. And no, I will not be going back to Malaysia, at least not until the government changes. If Barisan Nasional remains the government then I shall have to be buried in Brookwood beside my mother when I die.

Ku Li not commenting on RPK’s latest posting

Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah does not want to be dragged into the latest controversy stirred up by Malaysia Today founder and editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin.

His personal aide Lukman Mohd Ghani said the Umno veteran did not want to comment on the matter as he did not want to be perceived as being involved.

Raja Petra's latest online posting had implicated Razaleigh's aides in his controversial statutory declaration (SD) in 2008 which implicated Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in the murder of Mongolian beauty Altantuya Shaariibuu on Oct 19, 2006.

The posting followed his interview with TV3 in which he claimed that he had doubts over the details of the SD.

'I always knew the truth will prevail': Najib

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Abdul Razak said today he is thankful that the truth over allegations linking him and his wife to the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu had finally been revealed.

"I always knew the truth will prevail, and I am thankful this has happened," he said, when asked to comment on Malaysia Today editor Raja Petra Kamarudin's retraction of his allegations in a statutory declaration in 2008, linking Najib and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor to the Mongolian woman's death.

Raja Petra’s admission ‘exposes the chief conspirator’

Raja Petra Kamaruddin's admission that an attempt was made to implicate the Prime Minister and his wife in Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu's murder has exposed the “chief conspirator,” said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim's former aide Anuar Shaari.

Anuar, the PKR adviser's former secretary, said it was clear who actually conspired to implicate Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in the murder.

“Raja Petra has exposed the individuals associated with an Opposition leader said to be behind the conspiracy to prevent Najib from becoming the Prime Minister,” he told Bernama.

PKR vice-president Tian Chua, meanwhile, cautioned Barisan Nasional against trusting Raja Petra, saying the blogger was capable of making an about-turn in a matter of hours.

RPK: Anwar has lost his credibility

Blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin claimed Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim lost his credibility as the Opposition leader when he failed to fulfil the promise that the Opposition pact would form the government on Sept 16, 2008.

Raja Petra, who said Anwar was once his close friend, added that he too was deceived by the PKR adviser's false promises when he (Raja Petra) was detained under the Internal Security Act.

“Anwar came to the court because there were two cases going on simultaneously and told me don't worry, you will be out soon because we are going to form the government on Sept 16',” he said in the second part of an interview with TV3 aired last night.

Raja Petra alleged that unfulfilled promises, internal bickering in Pakatan Rakyat and Anwar's personal issues were enough for the people to re-evaluate Anwar's capability to lead the Opposition pack.

RPK: I don’t believe PM’s wife was at Altantuya's murder scene

Controversial fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin had doubts about his statutory declaration (SD) implicating Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor in the murder of Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu.

In a sensational interview over TV3 last night, Raja Petra said he had made the allegations on the belief that the order came from PKR adviser and Opposition Leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.

The Malaysia Today founder and editor said his SD in 2008 which stated he was reliably informed that Rosmah was among those present at the crime scene on Oct 19, 2006 when Altantuya was killed was based on information and demand by several individuals aimed at preventing Najib from becoming prime minister.

RPK: I don't believe Najib, Rosmah involved in Altantuya murder

alaysia Today founder and editor Raja Petra Kamaruddin says he was not responsible for accusations linking Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor to the murder of Mongolian woman Altantuya Shaariibuu.

He said he himself doubted the accusations when he made a statutory declaration (SD) on June 18, 2008, in which he had stated that he received information from several individuals claiming Rosmah was at the scene where Altantuya was murdered.

Today In pictures - Rosman , Najib , Muhiyddin and Rapist

In Putrajaya today, Prime Minister's wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor met with the visiting Aceh Governor's wife at her official residence Seri Perdana

Kindergarten director Ewe Peng Lip, 48, being led out of the courtroom after being sentenced to 20 years in jail and 10 strokes of the rotan for raping a 4-year-old girl at his kindergarten in George Town, Penang

A total of 300 traders from the Kota Baru Municipal Council (MPKB) market performing prayers at the premises yesterday. The traders have been ordered to move out by Thursday but hope they can stay put. A Kuala Lumpur-based businessman has offered to buy the market for RM5 million but no decision has been made yet.

The Prime Minister's wife, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor signs the plaque for the launch of Pusat Kebajikan Kechara Soup Kitchen at Jalan Imbi in Kuala Lumpur today.

"You will become a catalyst for change in achieving continuous excellence," Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, wife of Malaysia's Prime Minister, said when declaring open a seminar organised by the Women Council Members Association of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur today. Middle picture shows the association's secretary-general Lele Suzana Kudari exchanging the signed MoU with the Housing and Local Government Ministry's Deputy Secretary-General (Policy and Development) Datuk Yeo Heng Hau, as the association's president Datuk Azizah Mohd Dun and Rosmah look on

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin read copies of the Government Transformation Programme's maiden annual report which was launched at the Putra Stadium in Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur, on Sunday night.

Sultan Kelantan to remain in USM hospital

Prime Minister Najib and wife visit the ailing Sultan Kelantan .

The ailing Sultan of Kelantan, Tuanku Ismail Petra, whose poor health has resulted in squabbling between two of his sons over who will act in his place, is to remain warded at Universiti Sains Malaysia Hospital in Kubang Kerian for follow-up treatment for his heart problem, comptroller of the Kelantan Royal Household, Datuk Abdul Halim Hamad said today.

Bernama quoted Abdul Halim as saying there were no plans as yet to transfer the ruler to another hospital, such as Kuala Lumpur Hospital. He said the sultan was admitted to the hospital last Tuesday.

The Sultan's second wife, Che Puan Elia Suhana Ahmad, visited her husband at the hospital last night, Bernama reported.

She arrived at the hospital at about 11pm, accompanied by a policewoman and two male aides, and was at the Royal Ward for about two and half hours before leaving about 1.30am today. Elia Suhana was said to be overseas, but returned yesterday after being informed that the Sultan had been admitted to HUSM, Bernama reported.

The Sultan's family has been embroiled in the squabble between the royal brothers for months, especially while the sultan was in hospital in Singapore for eight months.

Earlier this week he was reported to have made two abortive attempts to leave the state for treatment.