Archive - 5 February 2004

Keadilan's sacked youth secretary threatens to reveal more on 'secret meetings' with Umno leaders and fund mismanagement if certain quarters continue to attack his credibility.

If you know something about the possible violation of the rights of 18 Sabah native villagers while they were under police detention, Suhakam urges you to come forward with your evidence.

Rights groups say that meaningful improvements to the police force can only be made if past violations are taken into account.

Budget airline AirAsia says it had finally won its battle to fly out of Singapore's Changi Airport and will this month begin flights between the island-state and Bangkok from just S$59.99 (RM135).

Hundreds of thousands of Malaysian Hindus made their annual pilgrimage to a 113-year-old limestone cave temple to celebrate Thaipusam, where devotees pierce their bodies with sharp hooks and skewers in self-mortification.

The scapegoating of Jews as the source of our problems is getting out of hand.

Newly appointed members of the Police Royal Commission say the issues of police brutality and deaths in custody will be on top of the commission's agenda.

The DAP central committee has decided to resume talks with former ally Keadilan, says its secretary-general Kerk Kim Hock.

Kewujudan golongan konservatif dan sederhana PAS di Kedah dan Perlis dijangka menyukarkan pucuk pimpinan parti itu untuk memilih calon yang sesuai dan sehaluan dengan kehendak penyokong akar umbi.

As details on the conduct of the police royal commission are still sketchy, two opposition leaders urge the commission to be transparent in all its dealings.

Ahead of the Malaysian-hosted UN Convention of Biological Diversity due to begin on Monday, the international environment watchdog has zoomed in on the logging practices of Rimbunan Hijau - accused of exploiting its political patronage for access to the world's rainforests.

PM Abdullah Ahmad Badawi had argued that improvements in the police force should not be done on an ad-hoc basis. But isn't the recently announced police royal commission an ad-hoc response?

Picking up the trail where he left off last January, M BAKRI MUSA looks at the qualities that the special assistant to the Malaysian prime minister should bring to his job.

A company linked to the son of the Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is under investigation for supplying centrifuge components for Libya's uranium-enrichment programme.