Archive - 14 August 2002

Civil rights groups are concerned that the proposed medial council may add more shackles on journalists in the country. The proposed sources of funding have also raised questions about the potential impartiality of the council.

Pergerakan pendidikan Cina, Dong Jiao Zong and PAS hari ini memaklumkan pendirian bersama dalam menentang penggunaan bahasa Inggeris untuk matapelajaran Sains dan Matematik.

Justice RK Nathan's recent outburst against Court of Appeal judge Gopal Sri Ram will remain in record following a technical knockout suffered by a lawyer trying to expunge the remarks.

The 'sister act' of the Internal Security Act, the Emergency Ordinance recently came into media prominence following a few controversial cases and has now caught the attention of Suhakam.

Dismissed by the opposition as being biased toward the ruling government, the Election Commission nevertheless explains the reasons for the seeming disparity in the allocation of new seats between certain states.

The process may have been messy and circuitous, but Indonesia's adoption of major constitutional amendments last Sunday underline how in the end, the Southeast Asian country remains very much on the transitional, if bumpy, road to democracy.

Pakistanis around the world are still coping with the fallout from the Sept 11 attacks on the US. Discrimination and suspicion are rife, forcing them to make decisions that deprive them of quality of life.

Burma's ruling junta could do worse than consult and involve citizens in reforming the country's administrative and political processes, argues a recent editorial in The Irrawaddy . Such political settlement will have other advantages as well.