Archive - 29 July 2003

Women's groups are up in arms over the debate surrounding the Gombak Timur Syariah court's decision to accept pronouncement of talaq (divorce) via SMS.

Kini penduduk pangsapuri Jubli Perak mempunyai sebuah surau baru berharga RM200,000 untuk kemudahan beribadat bagi menggantikan tapak surau lama yang diruntuhkan oleh Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Jais) awal tahun ini.

Will the party polls solve the leadership woes in DAP Selangor? Some 34 candidates are going for the 15 seats in the state committee.

Word that Sarawak strongman Abdul Taib Mahmud had sent an emissary to intervene in the leadership crisis within 'little brother' PBDS is filtering through Kuching.

A row over a Syariah court ruling that Muslim men can divorce their wives via SMS through their mobile phones has outraged women's groups and puzzled the prime minister.

Two industry giants, British banking group HSBC and Sweden's telecoms firm Ericsson, launch regional centres here in a boost to the country's bid to become a high-tech hub.

Kerajaan digesa membuktikan ketelusannya dengan mengarahkan siasatan dilakukan terhadap kontroversi pembalakan yang didakwa membabitkan tokoh-tokoh penting Umno.

The British banking group says a "sudden invasion" of Malaysia by foreign banks is unlikely when the financial sector is liberalised in 2007.

The opposition party wants the government to stick to its claimed policy of being 'clean and transparent', and not protect Umno leaders implicated in a logging scandal in Pahang.

A vast tract of land allocated to Umno Pahang is being logged over to purportedly support oil palm cultivation. However, a forestry expert questions the veracity and wisdom of the claim.

Sebagai warganegara, kaum Melayu Singapura berhak mendapat lebih kekuatan politik serta kebebasan agama dan budaya. Hak berpolitik tidak harus ditukar ganti dengan beberapa 'dasar keistimewaan' kerajaan kepada mereka.

DAP Selangor leader Teng Chang Khim has added two more allegations to his list of grouses against the state government, this time involving the use and sale of luxury cars.

Isu air tidak menunjukkan tanda-tanda akan berakhir. Malah Malaysia-Singapura balas-membalas mengiklankan fakta dan hujah masing-masing. Yang menanggung kosnya ialah pembayar cukai kedua negara. AMAN RAIS meneliti kesannya.

Jakarta has largely escaped international condemnation for its military offensive against Aceh. Several factors have shaped global perception of the situation.