Archive - 18 January 2003

A day after Umno Youth lodged a police report against malaysiakini , Federal Police chief Norian Mai said all reports of a seditious nature would be thoroughly investigated. So will the report against malaysiakini .

Sisters in Islam tells Muslim women that they have the right to include a no-polygamy clause in their marriage contracts. Not many Muslim women were aware of this right, and those who did were discouraged from using it by social pressure, SIS says

Dr Mahathir Mohamad is scheduled to have high-level talks with Lebanese and Egyptian leaders during his visit to the two countries from Jan 20 to 23, the foreign ministry said today.

Several trade union leaders have come forward to defend MTUC general secretary G. Rajasekaran who is caught in the middle of the leadership tussle between the congress' two top leaders.

No party polls this year, so the Umno general assembly is likely to focus on the general election. Umno sec-gen Khalil Yaakob says this year's assembly will be historic as it is Dr Mahathir Mohamad's last as president.

The government should not hide statistics on the dengue outbreak in the country since last year's record was the worst ever, says DAP chief Lim Kit Siang. The party is also willing to offer free legal service to families of dengue victims.

Deputy Home Minister Chor Chee Heung says his ministry does not have the right to stop malaysiakini or anyone from publishing on the Internet as those wishing to run news portals there were not required to get a licence from the ministry.

Although passenger traffic at KLIA grew 12 percent in 2002 from the previous year to 16.33 million, the figure was lower than the 18 million targetted by the airport after embarking on a RM10 million marketing campaign last year.

Umno Youth chief Hishammuddin Hussein leads a coalition of 100 NGOs to protest a US war against Iraq. The group aims to collect a million signatures.

What would George Orwell have made of the US' war on terror? Plenty, as it is 1984 and Animal Farm revisited.

SAM and CAP say the detailed EIA report on logging activities in Kedah's largest catchment area, has serious flaws. The proposed logging is said to affect 80 percent of Penang's water supply.