Archive - 25 September 2003

Outgoing Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad demands that the United Nations' most powerful members restructure the UN Security Council as a demonstration of their commitment to freedom and fairness by moving to eliminate veto power.

Union workers want the police to play fair as they investigate Hume's allegations that union workers were attempting to sabotage the factory.

The brother of Jemaah Islamiyah's alleged master planner Hambali is proving hard to crack, Pakistani intelligence said today.

National carrier Malaysia Airline today said the conditions stipulated in its proposed sale of a 70 percent stake in its catering unit have been fulfilled.

The deputy home minister says that the 13 Malaysian students, aged between 16 and 21, arrested recently in Pakistan are being groomed by the Jemaah Islamiah to be their future leaders.

Dakwaan penyalahgunaan kuasa terhadap timbalan ketua menteri Pulau Pinang berakhir apabila siasatan yang dijalankan oleh Badan Pencegah Rasuah (BPR) mendapatinya tiada asas.

The jailed former deputy prime minister says he is 'abhorred' that such a basic matter is being deliberated upon for months by the judges.

Kerajaan ditegur kerana membenarkan pertunjukan konsert kumpulan rock Linkin Park yang didakwa boleh menyuburkan budaya berseronok tanpa batasan.

The Masing-Sng faction plans a huge rally in central Sarawak as the wait for the Registrar of Societies' decision on their status lingers on.

The foreign minister can talk just as hard in fending off criticisms against Malaysia, as popular BBC Hardtalk host Tim Sebastian found out in a recent interview.

Local factories employing foreign workers must provide separate living quarters for different nationalities following massive brawls involving Indonesians, Vietnamese, Nepalese and Bangladeshis, the government has ruled.

Major US rock group Linkin Park has been given the go-ahead to perform in Malaysia - as long as they cover themselves from chest to knee, don't leap about on stage and are not "raunchy".

Shops selling imported statues of the Hindu god Ganesh talking on a mobile phone have been warned to remove them immediately.

Malaysiakini readers and writers are prone to blame the government for every ill including our 'suffocating mediocrity' rather than looking inward at the limitations of our own countrymen.

A man hanged himself after setting fire to his 19-year-old daughter after arguments over her love life.

The Philippines is confident of its chances of securing observer status in the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) going into next month's Islamic summit, says Foreign Secretary Blas Ople.

Proper democracy is not restricted to merely casting the ballot. SUGU argues that public rallies are vital as they allow the people a sense of direct participation in the democratic process and much more.

There may be a division within the military top brass over how to deal with Aung San Suu Kyi, but her recent operation may just make things easier for them.

It has been five days since 13 Malaysian students were arrested in Pakistan and their mothers have yet to receive any information on their whereabouts or condition.

Theatre practitioners want the authorities to explain the reason behind the additional move to vet scripts, and what this means for the performing arts.

Chinese national carrier Air China launched a new scheduled service from Beijing to Kuala Lumpur today. The move was driven by the growth in travel between the two countries.

A US$600 million Malaysian sovereign Islamic bond (sukuk) issue was listed on the Bahrain Stock Exchange (BSE) on Wednesday, the Bahrain Monetary Agency (BMA), or central bank, announced

Walaupun sudah lebih setahun Datuk Fadzil Noor kembali ke rahmahmatullah, tetapi bayangan kepimpinannya yang dikagumi banyak pihak, masih membayangi kepimpinan PAS Kedah.

Gerakan's Chia Kwang Chye will be the second party secretary-general to answer questions from malaysiakini readers following PAS' Nasharuddin Mat Isa.