Archive - 9 February 2004

Former Perwaja Steel managing director Eric Chia was arrested by Anti-Corruption Agency officers at his home in Petaling Jaya today.

As the meet on biological diversity gets underway in Kuala Lumpur, an environmental group says that the two major culprits behind the loss of biodiversity is logging and mining.

New villages will soon have access to additional funds and a co-ordinated plan to improve or add to basic amenities.

PAS mendakwa ada pihak yang membawa masuk pengundi dari luar dan mendaftar sebagai pengundi di kawasan Parlimen dan Dewan Undangan Negeri (DUN) di Kelantan.

It is with shock to read Malaysian Bar president Kuthubul Zaman Bukhari's admission that he had personally carried postal ballots for the Bar Council elections.

The government today declare that a scare over the country's first possible case of bird flu was a false alarm.

Critics are claiming that the government wants to use the religious school report as a campaign issue to garner more votes. However, the committee formulating the report denies this.

PAK LAH'S 100 DAYS After 100 days in office, the prime minister's agenda for change is very much the agenda of one man guided by some good values. Indeed, he faces three major obstacles.

PAK LAH'S 100 DAYS Premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has made an encouraging start to his role as statesperson. But can he continue and how far will he go?

PAK LAH'S 100 DAYS While he has been saying all the right things, Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will be judged favourably only if he does the right things.

Industrial output rose 13.5 percent on year in December and this led to industrial output for the full year in 2003 expanding 9.2 percent year-on-year.

This week Putrajaya celebrates its third anniversary as a federal territory. Z SUNDAY looks at this opulent monument to a profligate era.

Some 20 people protested outside the Ampang Jaya police station calling for action to be taken against the cops who shot dead P Nagendran.

De-registered Sarawak political party Snap is finding ways to prove its resilience pending a judicial review of its status.

Keadilan leader Azmin Ali may well find himself standing alone over his unhappiness that the party has been left with the crumbs in a seat pact with PAS in Kedah.

Teater kini menjadi sasaran sistematik penapisan. FATHI ARIS OMAR mengulas kecenderungan baru yang dihadapi kelompok teater berbahasa Inggeris.

We are still at the early stage of investigation and we have not found anything to show that the company had done anything wrong, says Inspector General of Police Mohamad Bakri Omar.

Malaysia has arrested 120 Indonesian timber traders over the past year in a crackdown on the illegal logging trade, says the primary industries ministry.

Government official says the ban was a precautionary measure, and that Malaysia was free of the deadly bird flu that was spreading across Asia.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi will visit Burma on Friday, officials said.