Archive - 26 May 2003

French car manufacturer Renault announces that a new Malaysian distributor, TC Euro Cars, would sell Renault vehicles, handle after sales and assemble the Kangoo commercial vehicle.

Detainees in lock-up have been beaten and in some extreme cases, even alleged to have been shot dead. Now for the first time, a female detainee claimed that she was forced to do oral sex with a male detainee.

Malaysia Airlines today said it has awarded a jet fuel contract worth RM644.1 million to a unit of national oil firm Petronas.

Ahli parlimen PAS kawasan Kubang Kerian, Husam Musa menghasilkan sebuah buku berdasarkan Laporan Ketua Audit Negara yang disifatkannya sebagai bukti penyelewangan dalam pemerintahan kerajaan Barisan Nasional (BN).

Decisions o­n providing humanitarian aid to areas experiencing conflict or disasters rely o­n a number of factors - good intentions alone are insufficient, say two groups.

It was not a very orderly meeting of the PBDS supreme council in Kuching yesterday. A shouting match that erupted o­nly indicates the deep division among the two feuding factions in the party.

The trial of two men charged with the rape of a teenager at an immigration detention centre in Sabah will start tomorrow, seven months after the allegations surfaced.

The Health Ministry says it was "unlikely" that the recent death of a sailor with Sars symptoms was linked to the killer epidemic.

After the humiliating change of guard in MCA o­n May 23, 2003, party members should seriously reconsider whether they still deserve to call themselves the Malaysian Chinese Association.

As the countdown for the release of the ISA detainees continues, all eyes are o­n the Home Ministry and what their case reports will be.

Government picks a senior diplomat to head a regional anti-terrorism centre which may be launched by the end of the year.

Zaman kekalutan seni sastera di Indonesia melahirkan 'Manifes Kebudayaan'. FATHI ARIS OMAR melihat gerakan ini sebagai pembinaan 'ruang awam' untuk karyawan. Tetapi sasterawan, seniman Malaysia masih mencari arah ini.

People of China are hoping for a positive side effect of the country's tardy tackling of the Sars epidemic - that there may be better days ahead for China's lopsided reforms in public health.

Weeks after the US-led war o­n Iraq ended, the occupiers are still unable to discover - let alone recover - weapons of mass destruction. Here's why.