Archive - 21 September 2003

Pakistan is questioning 13 Malaysian and two Indonesian students suspected of links to the Jemaah Islamiyah regional terror network, an intelligence official said.

A Lebanese man who tried to hijack a Royal Jordanian flight to Malaysia on Sept 13 is "mentally ill", an official at Lebanon's embassy in Jordan said today.

Veteran journalist Said Zahari, who had served one of the longest period of detention under the Internal Security Act, speaks his mind on Anwar Ibrahim, Mahathir Mohamad and Lee Kuan Yew.

The ruling Barisan Nasional coalition triumphantly celebrated its 50th anniversary at the weekend, setting its sights on another election victory, while the man once tipped as the next prime minister quietly marked his fifth year in jail.

The police questioning of Harakah editor Zulkifli Sulong on the publication of 'secret' letters in the Election Commission-Puteri Umno scandal shows that the government is not really serious about transparency in governance and public accountability.

MANJIT BHATIA explains why Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who is also finance minister, will not cut the ringgit loose anytime soon.

Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad left for London late yesterday enroute to Sweden for a three-day working visit to the country starting tomorrow.

The big red primate of the forests of Borneo and Sumatra, the orang-utan, is a kind of wise man among apes and tends to look at the world from on high both in the literal and figurative sense, says a researcher.

Pakistani authorities yesterday arrested 13 Malaysian suspected Islamic militants in a pre-dawn raid on a religious school in the crowded commercial capital Karachi, officials said.