Archive - 7 December 2003

DAP chief Lim Kit Siang calls on Pak Lah to address the conflicting priorities within his own administration if he is serious about rooting out graft in the civil service.

Prof Hamdan Adnan says that detention centres cannot refuse visits by Suhakam if all legal procedures are fulfilled.

Sarawak BN chief Abdul Taib Mahmud says the 14 PBDS elected representattives can find temporary shelter with the other BN component parties in the state.

Anwar Ibrahim is hoping that the court will grant him bail tomorrow so that he can seek medical treatment abroad.

Mitsubishi Motors, part of the DaimlerChrysler AG group, is to take control of the marketing operations of all Mitsubishi vehicles in Malaysia in a move to boost sales.

There is hope yet for the deregistered PBDS. At least, the prime minister's remarks today seemed to indicate so. Pak Lah says there is still time and avenue to appeal.

A small group of US citizens is trying to shut down a major source of funding for Jewish extremists in Israel and the occupied territories and its target is a casino located in a tiny low-income, mostly Latino town called Hawaiian Gardens in Los Angeles.

The Islamic state blueprint of PAS, says M BAKRI MUSA, is essentially a list of statements reaffirming the virtues of the Islamic version of apple pie and motherhood and dismisses it as an inelegant and poorly articulated wish list.

A former Bar president expresses disbelief over what appears to be the grounds for denying Irene Fernandez an opportunity to attend several overseas meeting.

AirAsia, which will fly its first regional route tomorrow, plans to float some 25 percent of its shares in late 2004 to fund an ambitious expansion plan and fight off competition, a top official said.

Broga residents are appealing to all Malaysians to recycle so that the government would focus on the campaign and be convinced that the incinerator proposed in their township was not necessary.