Archive - 23 November 2002

French President Jacques Chirac pledges to step up contacts with Malaysia ahead of the Non-Aligned Movement summit next year between developed and developing countries. Malaysia is the current president of NAM.

DAP's Teresa Kok has thrown her support behind the two MCA state assembly representatives who did not reject a motion on a controversial mega-road project proposed by a DAP rep in the Penang state assembly recently.

Keadilan president Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail (left) and PRM chief Dr Syed Husin Ali told an international conference in Bangkok that the Malaysian government has used "terrorism" as an excuse to impose repressive laws against its opponents.

Of late, Dr Too Chee Cheong has certainly made himself an object of historical inquiry among young Malaysians, and subject of passionate and nostalgic speculations for the elderly.

Distinguished journalist Robert Fisk slams the press for meekly adopting the words coined by the US government and its allies to describe the situation in the Middle East, to the effect of creating cowardly journalism.

The new annual rateable value (ARV) on all types of properties that all local authorities have announced is becoming a big issue that is blowing in the face of the Sarawak Government.

Seorang exco pemuda Keadilan menjelaskan mengenai laporan sebuah laman web yang mendakwa beberapa ahli exco pergerakan itu akan meletakkan jawatan selepas Ezam dilaporkan mahu melepaskan jawatan ketua pergerakan itu.

Alleged Jemaah Islamiah leaders, Abu Bakar Bashir and Hambali, had reportedly stayed at a Banting village in Selangor for several years. Malaysiakini pays a visit to find out from the locals how the duo conducted their lives there.

Malaysia will develop a micro satellite for a variety of applications including military and intelligence gathering in collaboration with South Korea, a report said Saturday

The United States sidesteps Malaysia's outraged response to a State Department warning that the country could fall victim to a Bali-style terror attack. State Department deputy spokesman Philip Reeker declines to be drawn into the controversy during his on-the-record briefing.