Archive - 30 November 2002

Lim Kit Siang describes the two Penang MCA state assembly representatives who abstained from voting against the deferment of the Penang Outer Ring Road Project (Porr) project recently as the victims of four political factors.

Suspected terrorists have sneaked into Thailand over the past 12 months to avoid a clampdown in Malaysia, a report Saturday quoted Thailand's top military commander as saying.

MCA deputy president Lim Ah Lek is ready to return to active politics. Leading the dissident faction in the party, his aides say his comeback will bring reforms to the deeply divided party.

Malaysia has decided to stop negotiations with Singapore and is to seek legal recourse for a price review of water supplied to the tiny republic, local media said Saturday.

Snap's James Wong is backtracking and will now turn to Home Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi first to try and reverse the Registrar of Societies' (ROS) decision to de-register the party. If the appeal fails, then it will be the court.

Umno has postponed its triennial party polls in June to focus on the impending general election,its president Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced on Friday.

Minister Rafidah Aziz has slammed Australia's security officials for treating her like a terrorist during a visit there a fortnight ago, according to local media reports.

An Iranian reformist is sentenced to death for allegedly insulting the prophet. MAZENI ALWI dissects the underlying struggle between two currents of political Islam, found not only in Iran, but the rest of the Muslim world.

A year after Bush began his ''war against terrorism", the balance sheet looks decidedly mixed. Now there is that growing sense that the war risks become a ''clash of civilizations''. Al Gore remains one of Bush's strongest critics.