Archive - 25 July 2003

Regardless of whether the ACA finds any evidence of corruption by the local council, a DAP leader wants the council president sacked for his wasteful expenditure.

The latest promotions in the judiciary did not go down well with leaders of opposition parties. Firing the first salvo, DAP deputy chairperson Karpal Singh says that a judge's wisdom is enhanced with age and experience.

The education minister, his ministry and the government will be slapped with lawsuits unless they respond to the group's grouses over the declining intake of Indian students into UM's medical faculty.

Daniel Tajem says it's up to the Registrar of Societies to determine the legality of the supreme council formed by his rivals. He also rules out the possibility of the party being de-registered due to the conflict.

Singapore took out a full-page advertisement in the Asian Wall Street Journal on Friday to counter a media blitz by neighbouring Malaysia on their protracted dispute over a water supply deal.

Japan's Sumitomo beat three other giants - Mitsubishi, German's Siemens and France's Alstom - to win a RM6 billion contract to build a coal power plant in Malaysia, considered the biggest power contract awarded this year in Asia.

Association of Southeast Asian Nations leaders must address the political deadlock in Burma in order to strengthen the grouping, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said today.

Samuel P Huntington's 'clash of civilisations' has its shortcomings, especially its neglect of intra-civilisational conflicts evident in all societies both east and west.

The on-going war against pornographic VCDs found its way into the courtroom today when a former airline steward was charged with making and producing porn videos.

The Pekan district land office confirms that the plot of 10,000-acre land - which Umno Pahang has been logging for five years - is state land and belongs to the government.

She thought her nightmare was over when the man who allegedly threatened to splash acid on her face was arrested. But the 29-year-old tailor is now gripped with fear after being told that a senior MCA politician was trying to get the suspect out on bail.

Pemuda PAS mendesak Barisan Nasional (BN) menjadikan pengharaman perjudian sebagai satu dasar kerajaan, dan bukannya bertindak demikian kerana mahu mendapat sokongan menjelang pilihanraya umum akan datang.

Women should be allowed to refuse sex if they know their husbands suffer from HIV, a minister said in remarks published today.

Although the DAP secretary-general welcomes the move to terminate the contract of the company blamed for the fiasco, he says the minister has side-stepped several important issues.

A group of Vietnamese migrants who have lost their jobs in Malaysia and cannot afford to go home have started stealing and killing pet dogs and cats to eat.

Calls to free the media have become common in Malaysia, but is there such a thing or is it merely an ideal that is being abused to gain mileage?