Archive - 2 December 2002

Guards stationed to keep picketing bank staff from entering their workplace today cross the line of common decency when their tactics go beyond strong-arm.

Hundreds of bank workers resumed their noisy protest today after the banks' association failed to ahere to an advice by the government to deduct union fees from their members' salaries, a union leader said.

Global terrorism will top the agenda at the summit meeting of the 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) in Malaysia in February, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said today.

While MCA concedes to the wisdom of its fellow members in the ruling front on how to deal with the party's two 'errant' state assembly members, it nevertheless wants to know why Umno reps who did the same thing in the past were ignored.

Oriental Daily News is expected to hit the streets again soon. It is learnt that the Home Ministry has not only lifted its suspension but has also approved its application for a printing license.

To calm a fuming minister who had objected to Australian security dogs sniffing her bags, the Australian envoy here sends her a letter explaining that the canines were merely doing their job.

PAS menyifatkan keluhan perdana menteri berikutan ibu bapa Melayu lebih memilih sekolah agama daripada sekolah kebangsaan, sebagai tanda kegagalan sistem pendidikan di Malaysia.

Umno and Gerakan have been pressuring MCA to sack its two state assembly representatives in Penang and DAP chief Lim Kit Siang suggests that it's time MCA's Team A and B unite to hold off the challenge.

High Court today dismissed an application by the Indian government to extradite Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi over the Bofors arms bribery scandal.

Ada semacam kekeliruan di kalangan saf kepimpinan negara berhubung isu keganasan. Dalam pada mereka menegaskan Malaysia selamat dan bebas daripada ancaman keganasan, pada masa yang sama mereka mengesahkan wujudnya gejala itu. AMAN RAIS mengulas kontradiksi ini.

Trade surplus rose in October to RM4.9 billion from RM4.8 billion the month earlier, says the Statistics Department. September is the 60th consecutive month the trade account remained in surplus.

MCA chief Dr Ling Liong Sik and his party seem to be having a hard time in resolving the disciplinary problem of two of its elected reps in Penang. The episode points to a Umno-Gerakan versus MCA showdown.