Archive - 4 December 2003

Umno claims that the state government awarded a logging concession to an infant company owned by a 26-year-old woman. But PAS says this is nothing but another baseless allegation and explains why.

DAP perlu menimbang pelbagai aspek dalam usahanya untuk menawan semula kawasan Parlimen yang pernah menjadi kubu kuatnya seperti di Bukit Bendera dan Jelutong.

A tug-of-war is going on between the Orang Asli residing in a Perak village and a company owned by a former minister over the status of land earmarked for a oil palm plantation.

After their previous letters went unheeded, Broga residents finally get a reply from the prime minister's office regarding their concern about the proposed mammoth incinerator in their backyard.

While tobacco companies publicly say children should not smoke, commercial sustainability requires that they attract young smokers, and routinely track the 'young adult smokers' market - an industry euphemism for low-age or underage smokers.

Timbalan Pengerusi Umno Kelantan, Datuk Zaid Ibrahim menjawab dakwaan-dakwaan yang dibangkitkan oleh bekas ketua Umno bahagian Pasir Mas, Datuk Ibrahim Ali berhubung penggugurannya daripada senarai jawatankuasa penaja di Kelantan.

As long as local councils remain unaccountable and conduct their operations in a clandestine manner, Lim Guan Eng says the spectre of corruption will continue to haunt the government.

Many people talk of Mahathir's legacy. What legacy? Mahathir has shown us what not to do. Let us all learn from his mistakes. Let's not repeat it. That's the legacy.

A similar predicament crops up when a second rare access was given to lawyers of the Karachi group of students. Again the lawyers are denied the privacy they wanted.

India looked back in the running to win part of a multi-billion dollar rail contract through new negotiations with the government after being cut out of the deal in favour of a local group.

Former NST editor-in-chief Abdullah Ahmad's vicissitude of fortune in politics and public life in the past 40 years conjures up Byzantine images of political jealousies, power struggle, intrigues and conspiracies among the ruling elites and their advisers and operatives.

Media altrnatif memainkan peranan penting dalam membentuk pemikiran masyarakat bagi menimbulkan kesedaran, terutama di kalangan kaum muda di negara masing-masing.

Snap does not want to be left out of the general election, come what may. Its president says party members want to "go it alone".

Malaysians can still believe that the preventable tragedy that is HIV/Aids is a foreign problem affecting outsiders. This, says FARISH A NOOR, is typical of the myopic culture that has come to develop and become normalised in this country.