Archive - 27 November 2003

The DAP directive to state party members to resign from their official posts in PAS-led Kelantan and Terengganu has backfired. Rather than quitting their posts, they resign from their party instead.

Umno leaders in Terengganu have been awarded with contracts to build and improve school infrastructures, says a PAS leader.

It seems that two of Sarawak's best known sworn political 'enemies', Rahman Yakub and Taib Mahmud, have finally decided to "forgive and forget". They are now publicly hugging each other at mosques.

The influential Chinese education movement will soon submit a memorandum to the new prime minister about its grouses concerning the state of Chinese education in the country.

Why are so many Malaysian graduates unemployed? SUGU points out that political expediency has taken priority over a sound education system and this has caused the churning out of unmarketable people.

Indigenous hunters could be called into the capital city to blow thousands of rodents from the streets with their pipes and poison darts.

Although four of the 'Karachi 13' group were released last Monday, all indications point to further detention of the remaining youths.

The myth of collective injury which is present in the mindset of all races and communities in Malaysia remains the basis of our fragmented national consciousness, says FARISH A NOOR.

The Daniel Tajem faction in PBDS says it has a formula to accommodate the other group but remains tight-lipped over details.

An el bel is a player who thinks he is participating but, in truth, is merely going through the motions. Everybody knew that a goal scored by him was not a real goal. This holds true to the the world's great democracies who do not allow freely expressed opinions to constrain what the government does.

Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar yesterday said ties with Saudi Arabia had not been hurt by a recent newspaper article which angered Riyadh.