Archive - 17 January 2004

Writers with diverse opinions review Dr Mahathir Mohamad's performance over the past 22 years. Not surprisingly, many do not agree with each other when discussing issues involving Mahathir.

While the proposed Police Royal Commission is almost finalised, DAP chief Lim Kit Siang considers it inappropriate that the government has made no effort to consult others about the idea.

Supporters of jailed ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim today defied police orders to end their first cross-country vehicle protest, a spokesman for the protesters said.

Singapore may be strides ahead in terms of setting trends as a tech-savvy state, but it defies international trends towards abolition of the death penalty. Why? Capital punishment reduces crime.

DAP's Lim Guan Eng says the Melaka government's decision to appoint officials with past criminal records to high office runs counter to the prime minister's efforts to address corruption in the civil service.

The council will take pains to educate lawyers first and the public next on the implications of detention without trial provisions and the need for Malaysia to do away with these repressive laws.

It's still 110 kph on our roads. The cabinet reverses a plan to raise the highway speed limit to 120 kph (74 miles per hour) because of a large number of fatal road accidents.

'If I had a M1A2 Abrams tank, I could blow and smash all these @#$@!$% to smithereens. Then I'd be a free man..hahaha!'

Dong Jiao Zong says it is aware of the problems of building new schools in urban centres but that remains the best solution to relocation woes so far.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his Thai counterpart Thaksin Shinawatra have pledged to boost cooperation on security matters following deadly unrest in southern Thailand.

There is the urgent need for concrete solutions to long-standing problems faced by vulnerable groups denied equal access to housing if the "Zero Squatter by 2005" policy of Selangor is to be achieved, a housing seminar heard this week.