Archive - 2 October 2003

BN and opposition parliamentarians put the parliamentary secretary in the frying pan for his excessive claims expose. He, however, blames the media.

IT workers say the bank cannot wash its hands from providing adequate compensation to workers as the company's decision to transfer their employment effectively gives them fewer benefits and greater job insecurity.

Nobody is truly independent, says the premier when shooting down the proposal to form an independent judicial commission to handle the appointment, transfer and promotion of judges.

The drastic proposal by the company to axe 55 percent of its employees leads them to feel 'victimised'. Today they take to the streets to air their grouses.

A Universiti Malaya lecturer wonders if the release of Chin Peng's book is part of a grander strategy to alter the long accepted history of this nation.

The controversy generated by Astro's decision to cancel the Focus Asia 'Indian Underclass?' shows no sign of blowing over as a group of Indian leaders from three opposition parties gear up for a nationwide campaign.

Afghanistan's seat was left vacant following the fall of then-president Burhanuddin Rabbani's government to the hardline Taliban regime in September 1996, which in turn fell to US-led forces in December 2001.

The eleven union workers were picked up after their employer claimed that the union is trying to sabotage the company.

Fong Po Kuan argues if lawyers have the right to choose the government they want then they should also have the right to choose the leaders they want to head the Bar.

Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd is cautiously optimistic that that passenger arrivals at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in 2003 will surpass last year's 33.7 million after government efforts to boost the industry.

The deputy information minister responds to a BN parliamentarian, who accuses the state-owned station of airing programmes which do not use proper Malay.

The forecast is a 152.5 percent jump from the pretax profit of RM360.6 million Golden Hope posted for its financial year ended June 2003 on the back of RM2.8 billion revenues.

British engine maker Rolls-Royce International Ltd is holding talks with the Malaysian government on the possibility of supplying the Royal Malaysian Navy with its newly developed gas turbine engine.

The DAP leader is urging the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA) to widen its probe to include the claims of cabinet ministers who are entitled to both, parliamentary and ministerial claims.

A group of Penan complain to the non-governmental organisation Borneo Resources Institute Malaysia (Brimas), saying that employees of a logging company had threatened to have them arrested.

Although the response to abolish the section, which prevents them from holding a position in the Bar Council, has been dismal, the lawyers are confident that it will gather steam.

Although the government's decision not to ban Chin Peng's memoirs is to be commended, its policy of not allowing the secretary-general of the Communist Party of Malaya to come home can, and must, be disputed.

The EGM is called to advocate greater transparency in the judges' selection process and not to to discuss the conduct of certain judges who have been appointed or promoted.

Being a medical doctor himself, the hundreds of petitioners from 39 countries say, Mahathir should take note of the serious health hazards attributed to incinerators.