Archive - 18 November 2003

New regional carrier Athena Air Services today launched flights from Senai Airport in Johor to Jakarta and Surabaya, says the airport's operator.

The government today criticised the United States' plan for a handover of power in Iraq, calling for United Nations control of the process and a deadline for the pullout of US troops.

The Kuala Lumpur Society for Transparency and Integrity warns of the existence of a 'corruption minefield' and calls on the public to take action.

Stressing that fear has nothing to do with his decision, the MCA leader explains that he sees no need for such a debate and adds that battling it out in the media is better.

Manufacturing sales grew 10.9 percent year-on-year, its fastest pace in six months, to breach the RM30 billion mark for the first time in three years.

The company says the police and ACA must start shuffling their feet or it will expose details that could put Umno Pahang's election chances on the line.

Tanpa diduga, Dokumen Negara Islam yang dilancarkan oleh PAS minggu lalu mendapat perhatian yang diluar dugaan di kalangan masyarakat Islam di Kedah dan Perlis.

Thai customs officials today said they had confiscated 509 pangolins sent from Malaysia and believed destined for China in their second major seizure of the scaly ant-eaters in less than a week.

Lawyers representing the 'Karachi 13' students, detained under the Internal Security Act for alleged terror links after being deported from Pakistan, have unexpectedly secured police permission to meet with their clients.

Doctors believe the chopstick ended up in the head of the mentally disabled man during an attack by strangers.

A rhino died yesterday after more than two weeks fighting an unknown disease which had already claimed the lives of its four companions at a conservation centre in Selangor the past two weeks.

Malaysia, selaku pengerusi NAM dan OIC, bimbang situasi di Iraq menjadi semakin buruk melainkan Pertubuhan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB) campurtangan.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says the government will proceed with the huge Bakun hydroelectric dam in Sarawak but had not decided whether to privatise the project.

Non-government organisations are rallying around in support of labour activist Irene Fernandez who was found guilty of publishing 'false news'. They hope to collect a million signatures to keep her away from jail.

baru Nampaknya Pak Lah mahukan kelainan dalam pentadbiran barunya, tetapi ia bukannya mudah dilakukan kerana beliau belum begitu stabil. Mungkin selepas mendapat mandat baru dari rakyat dan ahli Umno, Pak Lah lebih selesa untuk bertegas dan berkeras, kata AMAN RAIS.

Malaysia's fifth prime minister will struggle to overcome inherited risks even as he tries to stamp his political and administrative authority over the country.

The Malays have to discard their traditional thinking frame and replace it with the rational and scientific. There is much to learn, unlearn and re-learn.