Archive - 26 March 2004

The government today raised its economic growth forecast this year to 6.0-6.5 percent after a stronger-than-expected performance in 2003 and announced sweeping relaxation of foreign exchange rules to woo investors.

Bank Negara announced today it will introduce a new interest rate framework in the next few months to boost the efficiency of the financial markets but said this will not affect its monetary policy.

The menteri besar announces that the post has been scrapped to reduce politicking thus ensuring that attention is given to work.

The removal of the link raises questions if the move could be due to the heat received by the Election Commission over electoral irregularities.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is expected to announce an enlarged cabinet tomorrow after his landslide poll victory.

In a landmark ruling, the Johor Baru High Court says that police do not have any right to break up ceramah held in private residences.

Mursyidul Am PAS kecewa dengan laporan televisyen pada malam hari keputusan pengundian yang menghebahkan Barisan Nasional (BN) telah menang di Kelantan.

Congratulations, Mr Lim Kit Siang for your victorious return to Parliament together with your deputy Mr Karpal Singh.

While an opposition leader fails to show up at Istana Negara to submit a memorandum on election irregularities, malaysiakini journalists at the scene end up witnessing an accident instead.

Older party chiefs such as MIC's S Samy Vellu and Gerakan's Lim Keng Yaik should make way for younger members to join the new cabinet as these new faces can contribute fresh ideas.

Three party leaders tell how election irregularities played a big role in the crushing defeat. However, they also agree that internal factors are to blame as well.

The party also puts up banners to inform voters about its boycott and instructs its workers to remove all its campaign material from the area .

The party is calling on all those who were denied the right to vote to come forward and register their complaint with its 'people's tribunal'.

Malaysia's success as a nation since independence is partly because it is blessed with the right leader at the right time. Now Abdullah Ahmad Badawi looks set to propel it to greater heights.

All this election decided is that the Malaysian future is an Islamic one brought in not by discussion and negotiations with the multiracial Malaysia but as a political tit for tat for the Malay ground, says MGG PILLAI.

The party chairperson also calls on the new premier to change the system if he intends to fight corruption to its core.

The absence of the former premier is the catalyst behind the sterling performance of Barisan Nasional and the liquidation of the opposition, says JOSH HONG.

Perjuangan parti Keadilan berasaskan kebenaran dan keadilan untuk semua. Tetapi parti-parti yang berasaskan dan berkempen atas sentimen perkauman atau kelompok tertentu, mencapai keputusan lebih baik dalam pilihanraya umum Ahad lalu.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said yesterday he would work to realise his election promises following a resounding victory rather than get bogged down in opposition claims of electoral fraud and irregularities.