Archive - 11 March 2004

Timbalan Ketua Menteri Sabah Datuk Tham Nyip Shen, Bekas Ketua Menteri Datuk Osu Sukam dan bekas timbalan menteri kerjaraya Datuk Railey Jeffrey digugurkan daripada senarai calon BN Sabah.

Contrary to speculation, former mentri besar Muhammad Muhd Taib is not included in the BN list of candidates for Selangor while PAS is fielding several newcomers this time around.

Few surprises for top party leaders but the party makes strong representations in Kedah and Penang - to the woe of former ally DAP.

Walaupun ramai yang menjangka kedua-dua pemimpin ini akan digugurkan berikutan siasatan yang dijalankan terhadap mereka berhubung dakwaan salahguna kuasa, tetapi nama mereka turut tersenarai untuk mempertahan kerusi parlimen masing-masing.

Barisan Nasional component parties and Keadilan release their respective list of candidates for the parliamentary and state seats.

Despite an earlier assurance by Keadilan that DAP supremo Lim Kit Siang will have the chance to go one-on-one with the BN in Ipoh Timor, Perak Keadilan's Dr Lee Boon Chye's outbursts indicate otherwise.

Nurul Izzah, the eldest daughter of jailed ex-Malaysian deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, has dropped plans to contest March 21 elections fearing she may be expelled from university.

Despite talk that he will not contest, the veteran Bumi Kenyalang leader is yet again heading the state's BN team for the coming polls. The Sarawak BN line-up has no surprises although there are several new faces.

With nomination day fast approaching for the country's 11 ^th general election, the battle of the sexes takes centre stage in Perak while elsewhere 'boy scouts' take the rap for being either too old or to young. Malaysiakini 's News Roundup brings you the latest take from the Chinese and Malay dailies.

A booklet published by the citizens group underscores the problems faced by the community and calls for the MIC president to step down.

Ketiadaan nama Nasharuddin Mat Isa, setiausaha agung PAS, dalam senarai calon parti di Kedah telah mencetuskan teka-teki mengenai tempat baru beliau bakal dicalonkan.

Party secretary-general Kerk Kim Hock says the remaining names will be released this evening and tomorrow. He also reveals that three-cornered fights with Keadilan appear inevitable.

Benarkah sistem pendididikan di Malaysia bersifat menindas di mana anak muda disumbat dengan teori-teori yang kemudiannya dimuntahkan kembali sewaktu peperiksaan agar dapat menyambung pengajian ke tahap seterusnya?

With the ascendancy of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to the premiership, things will change - so we are told. Moving in tandem with the wheels of change is ...

Silent but intense lobbying by state leader gets national leader 'transfered' to back to Penang.

Damansara new village residents say they will only entertain the candidate who supports the re-opening of the Chinese primary school.

FARISH A NOOR explains why plural democracy as a political ideology that eschews and rejects all forms of sectarianism exclusivism, notions of racial/religious supremacy can be Malaysia's saviour.

Suhakam threw its support behind 16 detained alleged Islamic militants who have been on hunger strike for 11 days to press the government to charge or release them.

Kedah state chief Azizan Abdul Razak says his party will simplify the marriage process to stem moral decay among youths.

To strengthen the PAS administration in Kelantan, the party has made some changes in its line-up for the coming election to make way for new blood in the state leadership.

Dr Jeffrey Kitingan's Barisan Bebas has the potential of wresting a few state seats from the ruling nine-party Barisan Nasional coalition in Sabah by fanning nationalist sentiments.

The High Court will decide tomorrow whether to quash the decision of the Election Commission in preventing three Keadilan leaders from contesting in the general election.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi can do the country and himself a big favour by re-introducing local government elections, says SUGU.

This, only after DAP leader Lim Kit Siang complained that lawyer Karpal Singh had supported Keadilan icon and jailed ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim, "including getting arrested and charged for sedition in his defence".

The Keadilan deputy president is forced to watch the 11th general election from the sidelines because the PAS leader feels he is not Islamic enough to contest in a Muslim-majority state.

Walaupun PAS Kelantan tidak bersetuju Keadilan meletakkan calon luar di Parlimen Kota Bharu, tetapi ia tetap memberi sokongan atas sifatnya sebagai parti komponen BA.