Archive - 20 May 2004

The commission holds meetings with several organisations but later discovers that Special Branch personnel are loitering about in its premises, much to the chargrin of commission chief Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah.

Pakar forensik yang memeriksa mayat Noritta Shamuddin tidak menolak kemungkinan mangsa bersama dengan lebih seorang atau dua orang, menyebabkan dia mengalami kecederaan luaran.

Parliamentary Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang is feeling quite at home in parliament. Apart from delivering a full-day speech today, his first in the House for five years, he also 'offered' basic parliamentary lessons to several greenhorns.

National carmaker Proton will set up a plant in Iran and China to tap the booming auto market there.

A man claiming to be a member of the al-Qaeda-linked Jemaah Islamiah terror network called the police to say he had planted a bomb at the hospital.

Dewan Ulama PAS itu juga kesal dengan anggapan bahawa ulama berpotensi menjadi anasir pengganas.

The anti-ISA pressure group submits a memorandum highlighting details of alleged abuse faced by 31 detainees to the police commission.

The attorney-general's preliminary opinion is that he is concerned the wording of the motion will lead to sub judice ,' says Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Nazri Abdul Aziz.

'Disingenuous and intellectually flawed' is the description given to the minister's reason as to why an opposition MP cannot helm the Public Accounts Committee.

The Internal Security Ministry reveals this in a written reply to a question from an opposition MP and adds that the figure for this year is currently holding at one. However, the accuracy of the figures is being questioned.

The women's organisation says the lengthy investigation and court processes as well as certain immigration requirements do further injustice to the victims.

A freelance journalist and her seven-year-old daughter are now being housed in a safe location by the UN agency pending the police's decision on whether to charge the journalist for unlawful assembly.

Kepimpinan Umno Kelantan berpendapat tanpa sumber kewangan yang kukuh, kerajaan PAS Kelantan tidak mampu melaksanakan projek pembangunan untuk faedah rakyat Kelantan.

No date has been set for the Federal Court to deliver its all-important decision on the sodomy appeal by jailed ex-deputy prime minister Anwar Ibrahim. However, the judges will begin hearing Anwar's bail application tomorrow.

The honourable minister Nazri Aziz has recently made several remarks and offers some 'creative' solutions that are seemingly of the wrong vein. I do not know whether I ought to laugh or to cry.

It is a rare country where free elections and democracy is believed and the results accepted and honoured. MGG PILLAI says this becomes more difficult in the age of globalisation, which accepts as an article of faith, that the world must be made in the image of the Hollywood village.

Athena lives in Romanceland. Tristan lives in Realand. They are both 29 and have been very much in love for five years now.

Che Khalib Mohamad Noh ( left ) and Abdul Wahid Omar have been named to head utilitiy companies Tenaga Nasional and Telekom Malaysia respectively, as part of a revamp in the management of government-linked companies.

A 19-year-old Indonesian maid, Nirmala Bonet says her employer's wife had abused her daily for the last five months, burning her with a hot iron, pouring boiling water on her and beating her.

The government must realise that admitting to or recognising possible deficiencies is a strength as such admissions pave the way for improvement. Blanket denials and sweeping generalisations only reinforce impressions of wrongdoing.