Archive - 6 January 2003

One newspaper vendor who ignored the threat to stop distributing the newly launched Oriental Daily News claims his supply of four rival dailies was cut off.

Can't keep a good man down? Veteran trade unionist Zainal Rampak, who is at the centre of a bitter spat in the MTUC, would like to think so.

The government may opt for another round of pump-priming this year to boost the economy and to provide incentives to draw foreign investment amid the poor global economic sentiment, says Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

The government rejects a British military expert's analysis that Singapore's armed forces would swiftly triumph if a war erupted between the two countries.

Despite recurring water shortage due to drought, the Kedah government intends to extensively log the state's largest water catchment area. Critics claim this will affect farming activities and disrupt water supply within the state, as well as to Perlis and Penang.

Lobbyists and parents who are trying to get the original Damansara school reopened show up at the Education Ministry today to press on with their cause, undaunted by the reduced enrolment three years on.

As police investigation into the alleged rape of a Sabah minor is completed, several concerned parties are watching the case closely to see if the suspected rapists — said to be police officers — would be brought to trial.

The Penang Outer Ring Road (Porr) is the most expensive road in Malaysian history, the most elaborate and technologically advanced, the most difficult to build and perhaps the most controversial as well: truly the Lord of the Ring Roads. The One Ring Road that will bind them all?

Keputusan kerajaan BN yang mengancam kedudukan dan kewangan sekolah agama rakyat tidak melemahkan semangat kebanyakan daripada pengelola sekolah tersebut daripada terus menawarkan ilmu agama kepada pelajar Islam.

Defence Minister Najib Razak confirms that Malaysia will not join the annual Cobra Gold military exercises with United States forces in Thailand, saying there were other ways of cooperating in the war on terrorism.

Acquaintance with the public unease over the move to locate an incinerator in Kampong Broga, near Semenyih, would yield the conclusion that the problem of waste treatment in Kuala Lumpur has been a matter of geography rather than what it really is an issue of technology.

Selepas tiga penerbitan diharamkan pada 1994, muncul aktivisme media independen yang lantang di Indonesia. FATHI ARIS OMAR menemubual seorang aktivis utama di belakang Aliansi Jurnalis Independen (AJI) dan 'Suara Independen' yang kini terbukti menjadi daya gerak utama kejayaan kempen kebebasan akhbar di republik itu.