Archive - 20 February 2003

Western nations were attacked Thursday for "racist" policies in the war against terrorism as the 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) began a conference expected to be dominated by the Iraq crisis.

Harapan sekolah agama rakyat (SAR) untuk mendapatkan semula bantuan perkapita semakin samar apabila Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad menegaskan hari ini bahawa bantuan itu tidak akan disambung semula.

Penduduk di Seksyen 4, Bandar Baru Bangi mungkin dibenarkan oleh Majlis Agama Islam Selangor (Mais) untuk mengerjakan solat Jumaat di Surau Al Kausar yang terletak berhampiran kawasan itu.

The new Keadilan-PRM transitional leadership line-up, to be confirmed this Sunday, is expected to cause a stir among leaders in both parties. No wonder all of them prefer to keep mum over the issue.

news feature The country's most renowned opposition figure, Lim Kit Siang, celebrates his 62nd birthday but reveals no signs of quitting. Instead the veteran politician says he believes he can continue to play a meaningful political role.

Selepas terjejas teruk berikutan tindakan kerajaan pusat memberhentikan pinjaman perkapita kepada sekolah agama rakyat (SAR), kini Kementerian Pendidikan pula menarik balik guru yang dipinjamkan kepada SAR.

The long silence over the case of the 13-year-old Sabah girl who was allegedly raped while in detention by policemen had started to raise concerns if her case had been forgotten by authorities. The police, however, assures that this is certainly not the case.

The Irene Fernandez trial, where the court heard disturbing testimonies of sexual torture of inmates in the country's immigration detention camps, will see its first female witness next month.

Pembangkang tidak rasional, kata penulis Astora Jabat, kecuali beberapa penulis. FATHI ARIS OMAR menjawab tulisan ini dengan menuduh kerajaan punca utama pengkritik kerajaan digambarkan tidak rasional.

Many Thai migrant workers look forward to coming home after years of hard living overseas, but not everyone finds a happy ending waiting for them.

''Aggressive fighting for the right is the noblest sport the world affords,'' reads a bronze plaque o­n Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld's desk. It encapsulates much of the spirit that animates the hawks in the Bush administration.

The incoming chairman of the 114-nation Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, has taken a characteristically punchy line o­n the Iraq crisis as he assumes his last major role o­n the world stage.

Malaysia will see its first festival celebrating linguistic diversity o­n Feb 21, organised by that 'extremist' and 'chauvinistic' guardian of Chinese education in the country.

A return by influential Californian investment fund CalPERS to Malaysia was supposed to provide the KLSE with a much needed boost but market watchers are now left to consider the effects of the fund side-stepping the country for a second year.

Malaysian prisons seem to be bursting at the seams, as Suhakam's recent visits prove. Courts, too, are found to be lacking the sense of urgency, ending up contributing to the prison population.