Archive - 1 May 2004

The complainants claim the Brickfields police had illegally arrested them yesterday outside the police station while they were accompanying a woman to lodge a report over a missing police detainee.

Indian barber salons may be a small cottage industry in the country but they do serve a great need of Malaysians - to get a cheap and neat hair cut. The government must help ensure that they survive.

It was held in Penang for the first time. Everybody left happy at the end as the celebration of this auspicious day for workers was held in a joyous and carnival-like atmosphere.

Deputy Premier Najib Razak will lead a mission Tueday to meet Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra and discuss border security cooperation following unrest in southern Thailand.

The domestic trade and consumer affairs ministry warns that legal action would be taken against traders who increase prices of goods citing the fuel price hike.

Deputy president Law Hieng Ding (left) comes out publicly to accuse president Dr George Chan of reneging on a gentleman's agreement that saw him (Law) being left out of Pak Lah's new federal cabinet.

Thailand's south was bracing for more violence as evidence mounted that Muslim separatists were responsible for triggering this week's bloodshed that left more than 100 people dead.

Concern for the security of trade unionists in Colombia is heightened, not only by the latest killing of Gabriel Remolina and members of his family, but by the on-going failure to bring to justice those who kill and threaten trade unionists.

No substantial famine has ever occurred in any country with a relatively free press, writes Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen. The world-renowned professor of economics argues that the independent media also provide a voice to the neglected and disadvantaged.

Let there be no personal attack against writers, SIM KWANG YANG pleads, as he searches for a set of rules of engagement in public discourse, so that meaningful dialogic exchange can replace ugly monologic assertion of will to brute blind power.