Archive - 5 September 2003

The launch of the 'Repeal Section 46A' campaign today marked the beginning of a united effort by both senior and junior lawyers in removing the legal provision which disqualifies young lawyers from holding posts in the 10,500-strong Bar Council.

Consumer groups feel the landmark decision on the powers of the housing tribunal is unfair and morally flawed, as it favours developers.

The government today said it will extend a five-year waiver of landing and parking charges for new flights, offered at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) last year, to all international airports nationwide.

Banking group AMMB Holdings announced today that merger talks with its second suitor, the country's number two biggest lender Commerce Asset-Holding Bhd., has been called off.

Even as speculation builds about early polls, neither Keadilan nor DAP seem willing to make the first move to resolve differences over seat allocation issues.

Despite a major push by 'pro-establishment' students, allegedly supported by campus authorities, the anti-establishment forces retain their control over the country's key varsities in yesterday's nationwide elections.

Malaysia's seven-year-old hi-tech Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) has surpassed expectations and will be expanded and linked with similar cyber-cities worldwide, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said today.

As a Muslim academic, I have been keeping close tabs on the opinions non-Muslims, or even Muslims, about Islam. Some of the concerns are honest and merit a closer look by Islamic scholars.

Religious preacher and suspected terrorist Mohamad Iqbal A Rahman is a man in limbo - Malaysia has revoked his PR status, while his native Indonesia prefers that he does not return if deported.

The feuds between MCA and Gerakan are animated not only by historical animosities and current conflicts of interest, but also secret clashes of personalities at the top; the intervening Umno seems to have been trapped in a quagmire for a long time to come.

Four top leaders are said to have paired up in the run up to the Umno Youth election. This intensifies speculations that a clash for the top posts could be for real.

The struggle to overcome racism and the inhumanity of Zionism must involve willingness among freedom fighters to interrogate themselves on the question of violence in the politics of liberation, writes MAZENI ALWI.

The distributor of the now-controversial Chin Peng memoirs is surprised that the Home Ministry has stopped the sale of the book when a copy of the manuscript had been sent earlier to even the prime minister.

The 14, in four Malaysian trawlers, were intercepted by police and the navy near the Turtle Islands off the southern Tawi-Tawi islands on Aug 26.

Malaysia has bought the rights from a Japanese firm to the world's smallest microchip that can be embedded in everything from currencies to human bodies and will boost the global anti-terror war, says premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Books seized from a bookstore in Kuala Lumpur while another batch of 900 copies was confiscated by Johor Customs last week as it was brought into the country.