Archive - 22 November 2003

The prime minister says the reason for Abdullah Ahmad's dismissal as the top gun in the New Straits Times was because of the article he wrote which angered some Gulf countries.

In Part 3 on the Chinese today, SIM KWANG YANG says there are tangible reasons why Chinese Malaysians pay so little heed to their ethnic origin nowadays.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court calls for fresh affidavits to be filed on grounds that the lawyers have not yet exhausted means to get the students to sign their own testimonies before seeking representation from their parents.

Following concerns raised that eight Acehnese held at the Langkap detention centre were being forced to sign deportation papers against their will, the government finally decides to hold on the planned deportation of the group.

To fulfill Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's desire to reduce bureaucratic red tape, the government announces that it will finally be paying up the RM2 billion it owes to private contractors and service providers before Hari Raya.

GIIG Capital, controlled by tycoon Syed Mokhtar Albukhary, says that plans to take control of the Bakun hydroelectric dam project were on track despite the government's announcement it has not decided whether to privatise the project.

It looks like leaders and members of Parti Bansa Dayak Sarawak will have to wait a little longer for the outcome on the party's fate which is now in the hands of the Registrar of Societies.

The MIC deputy president has been a silent observer in the bitter dispute between his president Samy Vellu and IPF chief MG Pandithan. However his intervention can end the open war between the duo and pave the way for him for the top post in MIC.