Archive - 16 September 2003

The task force mediating peace talks between the NUBE rival factions has, among other proposals, appealed for the dispute be settled as a farewell gift for the PM.

Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi concluded a series of talks with China's highest leaders, saying he was confident bilateral relations would continue to strengthen after he takes his country's top job in October.

Opposition parliamentarians take the prime minister and his final budget to task while BN MPs come to his defence during the debate on the budget.

EC chief Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman says the now aborted plan to hire Puteri Umno members as part-time election workers is above board. His motive was to help provide employment to 'jobless women'.

Move over Mao Zedong - the 100,000 students at a major local university will be forced to study the "Thoughts of the Prime Minister".

Following DAP's complaint that 'Kamus Dewan' depicts the party as only championing Chinese rights, the publisher has agreed to make changes in the next edition.

The future of Sawarak party PBDS will be known on Friday or Saturday, when Registrar of Societies Dahari Ibrahim reveals his findings into the ongoing leadership tussle.

While many commend the budget proposals as being 'pro-rakyat', opposition party Parti Sosialis Malaysia begs to differ.

The police today mounted another round of arrests of undocumented Acehnese, this time at a squatter colony in Limau Manis, near Putrajaya.

On Sept 10, former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim's solicitor, Sankara N Nair, dispatched a letter (below) to Information Minister Khalil Yaakob, lambasting him on the libellous and slanderous feature that government-owned TV station RTM recently ran on Anwar.

Port of Tanjung Pelepas (PTP), which is competing directly with Singapore, is expected to be ranked the world's 20th busiest port in terms of volume handled by the end of the year.

Bank Negara Malaysia reiterates it will not intervene to speed up a second wave of banking consolidation despite recent failed merger talks.

Keputusan pemilihan pucuk pimpinan di Muktamar PAS hujung minggu lalu merupakan mesej daripada ahli akar umbi mengenai barisan pemimpin yang mereka kehendak untuk menerajui parti itu menghadapi pilihanraya umum akan datang.

How much has Sarawak progressed in the last four decades? As it celebrates its 40th year as part of the Malaysian federation, it is time to examine the balance sheets.

The new PAS leadership has become a double-header for conservatism with Hassan Shukri's election as deputy president. Not surprisingly, his leadership qualities have come under scrutiny.

While PAS leader Abdul Hadi Awang should retract his backing for suicide bombings, any police action will turn him into a political martyr, warns former ally Lim Kit Siang.

A team of house burglars dubbed the "Underwear Gang" by the police has struck for the fifth time this year.

The discord between the national myth of independence and the lives of Sabahans and Sarawakians, according to SIM KWANG YANG, is merely indicative of one of the many discrepancies in our nationhood.

State-owned national carrier Malaysia Airlines may drop an advertising campaign in Business Week after Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad alleged that the magazine threatened him.