Archive - 15 May 2004

Environment groups tell the government that doing its best is not good enough. Illegal Indonesian wood continue to be laundered through Malaysian ports as the authorities hide behind legislative failings.

Opposition leader and DAP chairman Lim Kit Siang said he discussed the plight of the Orang Asli at a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak in Putrajaya yesterday.

Ten years of reforms have created two different Indias. One looks abroad and links itself to the international world of business and politics. There is another India that was left completely behind. And the second India is the much larger one.

The brutal acts inflicted on Iraqi prisoners cannot be the isolated aberrations of a professional US army, committed by a few undisciplined soldiers because of lack of proper training and poor supervision, says SIM KWANG YANG.

United Nations envoy to Burma Razali Ismail says he remains 'optimistic' that democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi would be released soon.

Even senior citizens can be seen at street markets such as the Lorong Kulit flea market and the Lorong Gaharu red-light area to obtain the illegal 'viagras' from peddlers.

A court sentenced four women to 12 days jail for performing erotic dances in their underwear at one of the capital's latest nightclubs, local media reported today.