Archive - 29 November 2003

Frustrated by the unending feud over the National Union of Bank Employees leadership and funds, several members call for Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to step in. One faction agrees with the members' request.

A 24-year-old Malaysian successfully sneaked into a Malaysia Airlines aircraft and flew to the Indonesian resort island of Bali without a ticket and travel document, a report said today.

The king, prime minister and the Sultan of Brunei are expected to join more than 300,000 people in a Hari Raya open house in Kuching on Dec 13.

The DAP chief says much more should be done to reflect political will in creating a genuinely democratic country and that the time for the new premier to do so has come.

Will the recent controversy over the mismanagement of Maika see heads roll? Or will it just provide outsiders with cheap entertainment of seeing the open clash between MIC president S Samy Vellu and IPF leader MG Pandithan?

In Part 4 on the Chinese, SIM KWANG YANG points out that the idea there is something called a pure frozen unadulterated Chinese culture, which is 5000 years old and superior to other cultures, is a dogmatic myth.