Archive - 4 October 2003

It is the same old pressing issue - the lack of quorum. Time and again they have failed to fulfil the one-fifth quorum requirement to hold a meeting, and today's EGM was no different. Although 1,458 lawyers turned up, the EGM has to be cancelled.

"I don't believe that they didn't know," was the prime minister's immediate reaction to a news report that the CIA had not found any signs of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

The deputy premier says that he agrees with caning as a means to discipline students "because we all know that children normally fear caning, either in school or at home"

A Malaysia Airlines plane bound for Perth in western Australia, has been grounded after an engineer conducting pre-flight checks noticed its wires had been cut.

A 38-year-old woman died from suffocation after being trapped in an overloaded lift at a hotel on the resort island of Penang.

Another visit, another failure. Razali Ismail's latest mission to Burma has ended in failure, leaving him emptyhanded in efforts to revive the dialogue between Burma's military rulers and Aung San Suu Kyi.

Ahli jawatankuasa PAS pusat, Dr Hatta Ramli menafikan wujudnya percanggahan antara kenyataan naib presiden PAS, Datuk Mustafa Ali sewaktu rancangan popular HardTalk terbitan BBC minggu lalu, dengan pandangan Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang mengenai isu Negara Islam.