Archive - 19 May 2004

Pemeriksaan pakar patalogi forensik mendapati ada kesan lebam dan pengumpulan cecair yang banyak dalam vagina mangsa.

The government unveil plans to beef up security for foreign diplomats here following a string of attacks and threats to embassies this year.

PAS yang kalah teruk dalam pilihanraya umum lalu dikatakan berhasrat untuk mengadakan semula pilihanraya umum di negeri Kelantan.

The ruling coalition throws its weight behind opposition leader Lim Kit Siang's motion to impeach the Election Commission head to be debated. But it wants the attorney-general to decide whether such a debate will be sub judice in light of suits having been filed over the matter.

Lembaga Disiplin Umno menerima aduan membabitkan 454 ahli parti itu yang antaranya menjadi pencadang calon parti lawan dan adakan ceramah parti lawan di rumah mereka.

Keghairan mengenai bakal berlakunya perebutan bagi jawatan tertinggi ketiga-tiga pergerakan dalam Umno mungkin tidak menjadi kenyataan.

After a five-year hiatus, Malaysia's opposition icon is returned as parliamentary opposition leader following his roaring victory in the last polls.

The systemic failure in the birth registration process has forced a segment of Malaysians to eke out a living on the periphery of formal employment and leads to social problems.

Police also say that the seven-year-old daughter of the sole female protestor, journalist Sein Mar, is being detained in a police lock-up with her mother.

The chairperson-designate for the credentials committee, lawyer Muhammad Shafee Abdullah, who has been tasked to organise fresh party polls, is expected to get his appointment letter after the PBDS supreme council meets on May 29.

Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail urges the court's three-man bench not to interfere with the lower courts' decision. He says there was no evidence of alleged conspiracy through trumped-up charges.

Mereka yang terkorban dalam kejadian berdarah di Masjid Kersik di Pattani dianggap mati syahid. Tidakkah anggapan itu akan mengorbankan lebih ramai remaja militan Islam di selatan Thai?

While the women's groups have done their job, the same cannot be said of the government, which time and again, has displayed no political will in wanting to make changes to some of the country's antiquated laws.

'Abdullah knows, the police know and the public also know that under police custody, in lock-ups, in prisons and in secret holding centres, prisoners have been deprived of sleep, forced to simulate sexual acts and beaten up, and in some cases even to death,' says an ex-ISA detainee.

Thirty years ago this month, the late Tun Abdul Razak met his Chinese counterpart Chou En-Lai in Bejing to establish diplomatic ties between the two nations at the height of the Cold War.

The government rules out the setting up of a royal commission to investigate alleged 2004 general election irregularities and further says that the Election Commission's own internal findings will be revealed to certain quarters only and not to the opposition.