Archive - 29 April 2004

Menteri Besar Kedah, Datuk Seri Syed Razak Syed Zain menasihatkan para wakil rakyat Umno di negeri supaya jangan bertanding menentang ketua Umno bahagian di tempat masing-masing.

The jailed politician's counsel Sankara Nair says government officials have made trips to the Unesco regarding this and wonders if the international body is getting the right information.

A director of Ekran-linked construction company Wembley - a onetime subcontractor for the massive Bakun hydroelectric dam project - is under trial in one of the biggest cases of fraud involving a public-listed company.

Malaysia will sign a bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (Tifa) with the United States on May 10, International Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz said.

Offshore banks operating in Malaysia's International Offshore Financial Centre (IOFC) in Labuan saw a 48.7 percent increase in pretax profit to 166.8 million dollars in 2003.

Menteri Besar Selangor, Dr Mohd Khir Toyo diingatkan supaya membuat pertimbangan sewajarnya jika mendapat pencalonan bertanding jawatan Ketua Pemuda Umno.

The opposition party which was obliterated in the state which it had held since1999 is now seeking legal redress while BN goes after the Islamic party's president Abdul Hadi Awang.

The Muslim-based opposition party which will be around for a long time to come needs to engage in more inter-faith dialogues as this will help find commonalities in diversity.

The government urges Thailand to exercise caution after more than a hundred young Muslim militants were killed in clashes with security forces in southern provinces near the Malaysian border.

Kerajaan digesa supaya jangan tertumpu kepada usaha menangani isu pelajar ponteng sahaja tetapi mesti juga membanteras gejala sosial dan maksiat di Institusi Pengajian Tinggi (IPT).

In light of petitions to be brought before the Election Court soon, Suhakam chairperson Abu Talib Othman stresses the need for independent and fair judges able to give transparent judgements free of influence from parties with vested interests.

The opposition party files a suit seeking to declare that the EC has committed 'illegalities' during the recent elections, including violating many sections of the election laws by unilaterally changing electoral rules.

The poor have to wait decades for the promised houses. Worse still, they have to tolerate lazy government ministers, rude elected representatives and haughty civil servants.

A social activist calls on the authorities to give priority to post-resettlement problems, socio-economic in particular, as those involving the young are getting serious.

Simultaneous police raids in Malaysia and China smashed a major international drug ring producing millions of dollars worth of methamphetamine pills.

Kids and adults are emptying their pockets for animated porn movies and games, which allow them to 'join in the fun'.

The enlightened modern citizen has to stand up to those who claim to be his 'moral guardians' who want to keep him under lock and key, ostensibly 'for his own good', writes FARISH A NOOR as he places recent decisions in perspective.