Archive - 17 December 2003

Religious values could provide the platform for good governance. The pitfalls, however, are extremism and intolerance.

Pengerusi Badan Perhubungan Umno Kedah, Datuk Seri Syed Razak Syed Zain belum lagi mengadakan pertemuan dan perbincangan dengan pemangku Presiden Umno mengenai senarai calon pilihanraya umum akan datang.

The police say credit card fraud rose for the first nine months of 2003 with losses worth RM665,000 compared to the previous year.

Keadilan has indefinitely postponed its annual general meeting in order to concentrate its resources on preparations for the general election.

No dividend, no annual report, no company meeting. The shareholders of the company are in the dark over their investment made some 20 years ago.

The de-registered ex-BN party is adamant about contesting in the upcoming polls even if it means confronting the ruling coalition. It's deputy president also claims that the de-registration of Snap and PBDS were 'designed'.

Pemuda Umno bahagian Seremban tidak mempersoalkan keputusan Majlis Tertinggi Umno berhubung perlantikan naib ketua penaja bahagian tersebut, tetapi mahu kepimpinan tertinggi parti mengetahui hasrat sebenar ahli-ahli di peringkat akar umbi.

According to the Statistics Department, manufacturing sales rose 10 percent year-on-year to RM281.30 billion for the first ten months.

Jika kebebasan BPR hendak dijamin, agensi itu hendaklah secara langsung bertanggungjawab kepada Parlimen supaya ia berkuasa menyiasat, bukan saja menteri, malah perdana menteri sekalipun, jika terlibat dalam salah laku rasuah.

With Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the helm, the once timid cabinet is now cautiously baring its teeth. The first sign of this newfound ferocity is the shelving of the controversial double-tracking project.

As a potential medical first, Iranian conjoined twins Ladan and Laleh Bijani failed to make it to the history books. They died before realising their wish to be separate individuals, but left behind awkward moral and ethical dilemmas for the world to ponder.

The public-listed company involved in the Rawang-Ipoh electrified double-tracking project insists that it is a good paymaster to its four main contractors.

A media report says the MyKad is being considered as a means to facilitate travel for locals across the causeway.

The trip by Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is seen as a tradition for newly-installed regional leaders to cement ties.