Archive - 18 February 2003

Sultan Kedah menerima menghadap perwakilan daripada kumpulan yang memperjuangkan isu sekolah agama rakyat (SAR) dan bersetuju membawa isu itu ke persidangan Majlis Raja-Raja bulan depan.

Several faith groups are urging NAM members to pressure the US not to launch an attack o­n Iraq and are calling upon the superpower to disarm first before asking others to do so.

A remark by the deputy premier o­n Anwar's cases can be construed as interference with the judiciary by the executive.

Angered by consecutive arrests and detentions made against him by the police, human rights lawyer P Uthayakumar is taking them to court.

A book containing a selection of Dr Farish A Noor's controversial writings, which first appeared in o­nline daily malaysiakini , is holding the No 1 spot in a leading bookstore's bestseller list for the past three weeks.

Umno calls them 'chauvinistic and extremist'; yet Dong Jiao Zong, the influential Chinese education movement, has come out to defend the Islam-based People's Religious Schools that have been deprived of government funding.

Weak global sentiment may result in a further fall to the already plunging investments by US electronic firms. For last year, the figures dropped to RM1.6 billion, down from RM2.3 billion in 2001. O­n the bright side, the export sales for last year exceeded RM50 billion.

Although it may appear that many US citizens support the agenda of the Bush regime, there is a growing resistance to the White House imperative.

Seorang ulama mengingatkan bahawa tindakan merobohkan tempat ibadat umat Islam tanpa sebarang alasan munasabah mengundang dosa yang besar bagi mereka yang bertanggungjawab melakukannya.

Islamic states will meet to discuss the Iraq crisis immediately after the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit next week, says Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar.

While the adults engage in verbal diarrhoea about the effects of war o­n Iraq, little thought is given to the children of Iraq who will be irreparably traumatised by yet another war.

Majlis Tertinggi Umno tinjau pandangan ahli akar umbi Umno di Kelantan dan Terengganu mengenai cadangan namakan lebih awal nama calon bagi pilihanraya umum akan datang.

The war o­n Iraq has split the European Union, threatened the cohesion of the Nato alliance and paralysed the UN Security Council. It has fed the flames of anti-Americanism in Europe and of anti-Europeanism in America.

Barely four months after the national service was proposed, the government decides a modified version will be tabled in the coming parliamentary session, without making the changes public.

Malayan Banking Bhd announces an increase of 19 percent in its interim net profit, adding that prospects remain cloudy amid war threats in Iraq.

Communications tycoon T Ananda Krishnan is the richest man in Malaysia this year, according to local media reports.