Archive - 5 April 2003

The government is presenting Broga residents an opportunity to make their case in opposing the mega-incinerator project and to propose an alternative to handling thousands of tonnes of Klang Valley trash.

Housing and Local Government Deputy Minister M Kayveas call to close all Tamil schools in the country has irked an education group, which tells the politician to stick to issues within his knowledge.

The Health Ministry says a 64-year-old man who died at the Kuala Lumpur Hospital o­n Sunday is the first probable Sars case in the country.

DAP chairperson Lim Kit Siang today challenged Home Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to detain him under the Internal Security Act for his criticism over the manner in which the Health Ministry was handling the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars).

As coalition forces began to swarm around Baghdad, people of different faiths will gather in Penang tomorrow to pray for peace and an end to the war in Iraq.

United States marines and tanks have advanced into the city of Baghdad and are meeting sporadic resistance.

The US-led invasion of Iraq is but the same sad tale of Anglo-Saxon colonisation, as demonstrated in the 'liberation' of Burmese from themselves in the 19 ^th century.

If you want to figure out whether the Bush administration intends a crusade to ''remake the Middle East'' in the wake of its presumed military victory in Iraq, watch what happens with R James Woolsey.

The Masing-Sng faction has a contingency plan in case they fail to wrest control of the party.