Archive - 29 November 2002

Malaysia will buy both Russia's Su-30MK fighters and US-made F-18E "Superhornets", according to Vitaly Zelenkov of Russia's Irkutsk aviation factory.

Banks were said to have taken advantage of the leadership struggle within the NUBE, to do what they like with their staff. But a faction leader refutes this and says the banks are only watching their own backs.

An opposition Islamic party today criticised the government decision to freeze funding to private Islamic schools, warning it may lead to the closing of hundreds of such schools.

Oriental Daily News is still hoping to get the clear-all from the Home Ministry though it has been suspended for two months. However, it has a 'plan B' to publish a new Chinese current affairs magazine.

Due to the rampant posting of racial and religious slurs on a popular Sarawak website, the police are now out to nab the phantom writers. But many Sarawakians are not happy with the police's move.

Bahang pilihanraya kampus pada 19 Dis depan semakin terasa apabila ada pihak yang tidak bertanggungjawab telah menerbitkan makalah Bicara HEP palsu yang diedarkan secara meluas di kampus Universiti Malaya.

Laporan Bank Dunia antara lain menyebut di negara yang mengawal media, kesan politik, ekonomi dan sosialnya jauh lebih buruk berbanding di negara yang bebas persaingan medianya. Oleh itu, ia mencadangkan supaya dihapuskan semua bentuk sekatan dan permit. Apakah Kementerian Dalam Negeri (KDN) boleh diyakinkan dengan hujah-hujah ini?

The commercialisation of culture has a disturbing impact on people. Its cumulative effect in Africa is a crisis of cultural confidence, combined with the increased economic uncertainty and crime which global integration often brings.

The American public generally inward-looking could have been swayed into supporting their government's war against terrorism for their own security although the US government may have other agendas, says an American scholar.