Archive - 15 November 2002

Did the Human Resources Ministry have a meeting with MTUC and the banks to resolve their problems? The ministry says yes. MTUC reiterates, no.

FBI investigators arrive in Kuala Lumpur today to interview alleged KMM member Yazid Sufaat after running into a brick wall in their investigations on Zacarias Moussaoui, the '20th' Sept 11 hijacker.

DAP Youth lodges a police report over a remark made by an Umno leader urging the government to close all Chinese schools in the country. The statement, says the fuming opposition party, is seditious and racist.

KL Fire and Rescue Department whistle blower Mohd Ali Tambi Chik has been slapped with several show-cause letters from his superiors following his allegations of corruption and abuse of power by his department's director-general.

The Philippines government will hand back the 13-year-old girl whose alleged rape in a Sabah detention center triggered a diplomatic row. Manila says the girl will be turned over to the Malaysian authorities in December.

The information highway was heralded as an exciting vehicle to greater democracy, but that vision is yet to be realised in Malaysia where there are not enough users who comprise the same faces anyway.

Mengapakah tabloid "bebas" dan tabloid arus sisi "keberatan" untuk melaporkan perbuatan salahgunakuasa dan rasuah yang membabitkan pemimpin di negeri-negeri yang diperintah oleh parti pembangkang? FATHI ARIS OMAR mengupas fenomena ini.

That the UN human rights treaty system is absent in current debates is a worrisome sign. But perhaps that's no surprise, for such treaties do not appear to have directly improved the human rights situation in the countries that ratify them.

Langkah Misi Keamanan Sejagat (GPM) menghulurkan bantuan kewangan kepada umat Islam yang dilanda kemiskinan akibat perang dan bencana alam, tidak seharusnya disalahanggap dan dikaitkan dengan kumpulan-kumpulan negatif tertentu.

The cases of deaths in police custody is now alarmingly high. Prim which has been concerned with such incidents now wants to meet Deputy Premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi over the matter.