Archive - 26 October 2003

Keadilan Youth chief Mohd Ezam Mohd Nor says the courts' delaying tactics in hearing Anwar Ibrahim's appeals is done on purpose to deny the man justice.

Loved and loathed but rarely ignored, Malaysia's Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad leaves a complex legacy when he retires on Friday.

The PPP president wants some realistic steps to be taken to recognise the status of children born to local women and foreign men, equal to what the law provides to children born to local men.

In response to the Australian report which suggested that he was linked to terrorist outfits, Anwar Ibrahim says legal action is underway against those who slandered him.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad said that US President George W Bush was lying when he claimed to have rebuked him over his remarks about Jews ruling the world, Bernama reported

Malaysian police are seeking help from Singapore in a bid to collect RM28.6 million in unpaid fines from over 95,000 summonses issued against drivers from the city state.

Political activist Tian Chua, who spent two years in detention under Malaysia's tough Internal Security Act (ISA), says he cannot wait for Friday, when Malaysian Premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad finally retires.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will inherit a modern and progressive Malaysia when his mentor Dr Mahathir Mohamad steps down this week, but he will also be confronted with an array of tough political and economic challenges.

Dr Mahathir Mohamad can claim many feathers for his economic cap, but one that must give him great pleasure comes from his humbling of critics in the International Monetary Fund.