Archive - 6 October 2003

Reacting to Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad's claim that PAS has turned the Malays into a backward race, the PAS leader alleges that it's the 'feudalistic' Barisan Nasional and its policies which are to blame.

Floods submerged several villages in Perak, Kedah and Penang, with two children aged nine and 12 drowning in the resort island of Langkawi and a 14-year-old in a village in Kedah.

Indonesian religious preacher Mohamad Iqbal A Rahman is challenging the immigration department's decision to revoke his PR status, but another development may complicate the process.

An armed gang that seized a group of resort workers on the Malaysian section of Borneo Island are believed headed for the southern Philippines, the Filipino armed forces said today.

One of the two runways at Singapore's Changi international airport was closed after a Malaysia Airlines plane taxied off the tarmac, authorities said.

The online daily, which was probed for publishing an allegedly seditious letter, will now have to wait for the AG to decide on whether the matter will be pursued in court.

Rising social problems among Malay youths in Kuching prompt political leaders to suggest gazetting Malay/Muslim-majority areas in and the around the city as alcohol-free zones.

PAS wants the government to sever diplomatic ties with Singapore, arguing that the latter's actions are akin to Israel's in being less than neighbourly.

In conjunction with World Habitat Day, a people's forum poses many pressing issues concerning housing needs for the poor in the country.

Aliran takes the council to task over its decision to censor plays. It warns that the retrogressive measure, may see the 'Iron Curtain' fall on Malaysian creativity.

The six, all resort workers, were seized late Sunday night in a raid on the Borneo Paradise Resort and taken away by longboat, says police chief Norian Mai.

The more commercial television news you watch, the more wrong you are likely to be about key elements of the Iraq War and its aftermath, according to a major new study.

Is it time to make the Attorney-General accountable to Parliament? While the government does not think so, there is a school of thought that advocates such measures.

Visitors strolling through the centre of KL in the evening might be handed a menu offering a chance to "Sample our Oriental delights" - and they are not talking about samosas or spring rolls.