Archive - 26 February 2003

Pemindahan Tadika Kemas ke bekas tapak surau Jubli Perak adalah atas pelawaan Perbadanan Kemajuan Negeri Selangor (PKNS) yang dipengerusikan oleh Datuk Seri Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, yang juga Menteri Besar Selangor.

The increasing trend of crimes involving children has prompted the government to work out a system where a child abuse victim will be spared the additional trauma of going through the investigation and court procedures.

After numerous e-mails sent to Selangor MB Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, DAP chief Lim Kit Siang gets a reply that confirms his allegation that the government is trying to keep the public in the dark over the dengue outbreak.

Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who is the new Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) chairperson, says he will write to the members of the UN Security Council to ask them to avoid a war o­n Iraq.

In a front-page press coverage, Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said at the opening of the inaugural Non-Aligned Movement Business Forum that the imminent attack o­n Iraq was evidence of a war being waged by the West against Muslims.

Para mufti disarankan supaya mengadakan perbincangan khas bagi mencapai kata sepakat bagi mengatasi masalah yang dihadapi oleh sekolah agama rakyat (SAR) dan membawanya kepada Majlis Raja-Raja.

Kewujudan pelbagai bahasa ibunda merupakan hak asasi setiap manusia dan setiap kaum yang dijamin dalam Perlembagaan Persekutuan dan Deklarasi Sejagat Hak-hak Manusia, yang patut diakuri dan dipertahankan, bukan saja oleh rakyat pelbagai kaum, tetapi juga oleh kerajaan Malaysia, kata LEE BAN CHEN.

Forty-eight Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) members including Iraq are holding crisis talks today as US President George W Bush warned o­nly full disarmament could prevent a war o­n Baghdad.

Southeast Asian nations have been increasingly alarmed at press coverage abroad which focuses o­n alleged militant activities in the region and little else above that. A Malaysian academic in Washington urges for a sense of perspective.

Anwar Ibrahim warns that the use of military force will o­nly court catastrophe and urges the US to exercise restraint.

Flag carrier Malaysia Airlines continues its flight to recovery by logging a net profit of RM330.40 million in the quarter to December, compared to a loss of RM310.20 million in the same period last year. THis is the second consecutive quarterly profit since April-June 1997.

The 13 ^th NAM summit draws to an end with leaders calling for a multilateral approach to the Iraq crisis and a stop to the human rights violations in Palestine.

Cadangan perdebatan ilmiah di antara ketua Dewan Pemuda PAS, Mahfuz Omar dan rakan sejawatnya dari Umno, Datuk Hishammuddin Hussein, kini bergantung kepada kesediaan Pemuda Umno untuk menerima pelawaan itu.

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), whose summit has been dominated by the Iraq and North Korean crises, pledged steps to help billions of the world's poor as it wrapped up a summit here yesterday.