Archive - 16 July 2003

A prosecution witness said he had no choice but to arrest seven undergraduates in 2001 for illegal assembly because they refused to heed his orders to disperse during a demonstration.

Awam's plan to hold an outdoor rally to raise awareness of rape has been thwarted. The event will now be moved indoors.

In this second instalment of malaysiakini 's question-and-answer forum, PAS secretary-general Nasharuddin Mat Isa addresses issues of a theocratic state, hudud law and the Muslim-based party's policy on repressive laws such as ISA.

The leaders of an Islamic state - whether religious scholars or professionals - must obtain their mandate via the ballot box, says PAS secretary-general Nasharuddin Mat Isa in the second round of malaysiakini 's Q&A forum

Suhakam will go public in one way or other if the government chooses not to clarify points made in an official response to the commission's proposals submitted over the past three years.

The company claims to have been left in the lurch when the electronic giant shifted its operations from Penang to China last year.

Indonesian human rights and students groups have staged demonstrations in Jakarta in support of seven suspended Malaysian undergraduates who have been charged with illegal assembly.

The country's economy is out of the woods after the Iraq war and the Sars epidemic, with growth expected to pick up in the second half of the year, officials and economists said.

Refuting the government's claim that Jelutong residents in Penang are 'enjoying' rapid development, a group of villagers affected by a flash flood says these projects are actually a hazard to them.

Malaysia has previously welcomed refugees from Bosnia and Iraq. The question now is whether the country should extend the same assistance to Acehnese. A UN agency certainly thinks so.

Kenyataan beberapa pemimpin Umno yang mahu menggambar Umno sebagai sebuah parti yang mengamalkan demokrasi dalam pemilihan kepimpinan parti, telah memberi isyarat yang salah kepada ahli bawahan.

Manufacturing sales rose 5.2 percent in May from a year earlier to RM26.4 billion and were up 0.8 percent from April, reveals official data.

And the ads are all factual truths in which much work and research have been done, says NEAC executive director Mustapha Mohamed.

They are confined in luxury condominiums to satisfy a select club of the rich and old in Malaysia, who visit them regularly in late afternoons to wine, dine and have sex.

The abolition of the system has upset lawyers, who claim that contrary to the judiciary's assertion, the system has effected some positive changes.

Singaporeans and Malaysians could learn a thing or two from Germans and Italians about how to handle political rhetoric that leads to cross-border spats.

Another twist has been added to the long-running power struggle within NUBE, but union officials are using this to find a way forward