Archive - 18 February 2004

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak calls for a balanced perspective of Malaysia's environmental track record.

Zool Hilmi Yahya says he is prepared to face the music over the police report lodged against him for alleging that Umno tried to 'bribe' him into joining the party.

MTUC affiliates plan to terminate their business dealings with Bumiputera-Commerce Bank Bhd (BCB) unless the suspension of National Union of Bank Employees members is rescinded.

The US-led controversy over a shipment of centrifuge parts has missed a key point, according to terrorism expert Rohan Gunaratna.

Poll watch group Mafrel is conducting a verification exercise to determine if the voter list issued by the Election Commission is free of errors.

Newspapers, opposition parties and ministers themselves were speculating feverishly over who would be next after Lands and Cooperative Development Minister Kasitah Gaddam quit the cabinet.

The Human Rights Commission of Malaysia (Suhakam) gets a 'whacking' for a commissioner's recent statement that allegedly fails to protect the human rights of homosexuals.

Disappointed by the 'distorted' coverage during the last polls, a citizens group decides to keep an eye on the media this time around.

Malaysian manufacturing sales in December rose 20.8 percent from the year-earlier perioddue to a "torrid pace of activity" in sales and output.

Malaysia today welcomed a statement by a senior US official that the government was not implicated in a nuclear black market scandal, as attention turned to a shadowy Sri Lankan businessman living here.

Tajol Rosli Ghazali says the general election could be held simultaneously with the Sabah state polls.

Despite the internal problems plaguing the ruling front, it says there will be no problems in retaining all the 28 parliamentary seats in the state.

Sekiranya Anwar Ibrahim tidak dipanggil memberi keterangan dalam kes Perwaja, maka tuduhan beliau bahawa ada pihak cuba melindungi individu-individu berprofil tinggi yang lain, sukarlah dinafikan, kata LEE BAN CHEN.

Time has not stood still within the arms race, as SUGU finds out in comparing scenarios between the dropping of the atom bomb on two Japanese cities and the invasion of Iraq.

They have a right to build the fence on their side. and there should not be any problems, says Shafie Apdal, deputy defence minister.

Lands and Cooperative Development Minister Kasitah Gaddam, facing corruption charges, wants to "focus on clearing his name in the court case".