Archive - 22 June 2003

PAS faces renewed accusations of lying to non-Muslim Malaysians and causing disunity among citizens, both Malays and others.

Umno supreme council member Syed Hamid Albar says he has not thought about contesting a vice-president's post in next year's party elections. When it's time, I will decide, says the two-time loser.

As the nation changes leadership with Mahathir's upcoming retirement from government and politics, PAS sees no change in ties with its arch-nemesis Umno under premier-in-waiting Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Except for a handshake, PBDS rivals Daniel Tajem and Dr James Masing did not utter a word to each other when they met at a function in Kapit last night

Parkson Group, a general merchandise and chain-store giant from Malaysia, will open three new shops in the Chinese capital Beijing, state press said Sunday.

Eight naval ships from the Philippines and Malaysia began Sunday an annual joint border patrol training exercises, the navy said.

Perhimpunan agung Umno yang berakhir semalam menjadi titik permulaan perjuangan politik Pak Lah dalam melayari bahtera politik Umno yang penuh dengan cabaran.

As political parties gear up for the general election expected in 2004, Sabah leaders are making their own preparations, in case both polls coincide.

Mahathir and his cluster of old ideas of the world is confronting a new reality. Will Abdullah Ahmad Badawi inherit and defend, or abandon and discard them after October?

Malaysia, already known as a maverick in international economic circles, has gone a risky step further by hurling racial insults at major investing nations as veteran Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad prepares to step down.

A Malaysian man was stabbed to death in his bed at a Thai hospital where he and his wife were recuperating after being shot and wounded earlier this month, reports said Sunday.