Archive - 17 November 2002

At their special meeting in Kuala Lumpur today, Keadilan Indian members have decided to propose that supreme council member N Gobalakrishnan be appointed a party veep.

DAP chief Lim Kit Siang blasts RTM over its coverage on the language switch controversy which he claims were one-sided against Dong Jiao Zong and the DAP. The propaganda, camouflaged as 'news', also distorted several past political and educational issues, says Lim.

The sentencing of a 15-year-old juvenile, who did not have legal representation in Seremban, to three months jail for killing a livestock in an ostrich farm has raised the ire of Aliran, a Penang based social reform movement.

To go for a judicial review is an option for ex-Snap members aligned with James Wong Kim Min. To join Umno en bloc is another. Whatever, the road ahead for the die-hard Snap members seems long and winding.

Umno Youth's alleged seditious call to the government to close all Chinese schools has generated more heat with a BN component party and the Opposition now united in support of educationist movement Dong Jiao Zong. PRM president Dr Syed Husin Ali (photo) likens Umno Youth's act to "what gangsters and terrorists do".

The merry-go-round of the controversial language switch continues. This time, an MCA leader attacks the pro-Umno dailies for what he claims to be "distorted" and "exaggerated" statements published by the papers. Not surprisingly, PAS quickly jumps on the bandwagon.

A picnic trip for seven sisters ended in tragedy on Saturday when five of them aged between 8 and 19 drowned in a waterfall in Gurun, Kedah.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad has denounced what he termed as "debt slavery" under the International Monetary Fund and pleaded the cause of Islamic banking, in an interview published in an Oman newspaper.

Youth organisations and uniformed groups are lauding the government's proposal to introduce national service. A word of caution from one group is that Malaysia should not blindly follow the models practised in other countries.

Singapore and Malaysia are to resume talks aimed at fixing a price for the city-state's water supply from its neighbour, one of the thorniest issues between the two countries, a report said today.