Archive - 16 February 2003

Thousands of police, some armed with M-16 rifles, have been deployed in Kuala Lumpur as part of a massive security plan ahead of the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit, top police officials said.

A couple of positive aspects need to be noted about the antiwar protest around the world. For o­ne, the clash within the West has defused tensions between the Muslim world and the West.

Mahathir Mohamad has voiced disappointment over Qatar's reluctance to support the staging in Malaysia of an emergency session of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) o­n the Iraq crisis, a report said Sunday.

A Malaysian and six Indonesians were missing after a crane o­nboard a barge broke loose and crashed o­nto a tugboat in the waters off southern Johor, police said.

DAP chief Lim Kit Siang reveals several instances where bitterness and rivalry between MCA Team A and B have "compromised and undermined" not o­nly the rights of the Chinese community but also the interests of all Malaysians.

Hours before the debate o­n the people's religious schools or Sekolah Agama Rakyat (SAR) is set to take place in Kuala Lumpur tonight, PAS and Umno representatives are still debating about the debate.

Although Dr Mahathir Mohamad has said that the rotation system of the Sabah chief minister's post will not be scrapped, there is no guarantee that it will continue in the future given the many dissenting voices, even within the Sabah BN, against it.