Archive - 6 September 2003

Keadilan takes issue with its former deputy president Chandra Muzaffar's remarks praising Dr Mahathir Mohamad for the post-1997 economic recovery.

DAP wants the government to justify the funds used for renovating Parliament House at the expense of recent pressing issues which remain unresolved.

Leo Moggie is blaming his former protege Dr James Masing for the mess PBDS is in today. Masing wants to become president at all costs, he claims.

The just-concluded campus polls saw university authorities closely monitoring candidates, trying to prevent them teaming up as a slate or alliance. Here's a sampling of what took place in USM in Penang.

Dari Kamunting, Hishamuddin Rais melihat kota Baghdad dimusnahkan untuk kali ketiga - pada 1228 oleh keluarga Genghiz Khan, Kublai Khan dan Hulagu dari Mongolia. dan kemudiannya pada 1992 dan 2002, oleh keluarga Bush dari Amerika Syarikat dengan tujuan yang sama.

Will this Ampang mosque go the way of many others? Administrators of the Masjid Fatimah Azzahrah feel that their days are numbered as their activities at the mosque are being scrutinised and queried, purportedly by local Umno officials.

Public feedback is being sought on the detailed EIA study for the Broga incinerator project, and it has to be done before mid-October.

The United Nations' special envoy to Burma hopes the country's newly installed prime minister is taking steps towards releasing pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi, news reports said today.

Measat, Malaysia's sole commercial satellite operator, has picked US defence firm Lockheed Martin Corporation to launch its third communications satellite in 2005, local media reported today.

Fourteen Malaysian fishermen arrested last week by Philippine authorities for alleged poaching near the southern maritime border of the two countries have been released, a military official said today.

A century-old statue of a Chinese deity which was stolen from a temple in Penang during a power blackout earlier this week has been returned, local media reported today.