Archive - 7 June 2004

A mob of 50 Indonesian construction workers hacked two men and a toddler to death after a 'misunderstanding'.

Majlis Fatwa Kebangsaan dan Jakim digesa kaji segera hukum pertandingan SMS berbayar berunsurkan perjudian.

Human rights lawyer P Uthayakumar, who has sought asylum.in Britain, will be safe if he returns home, says minister Nazri Abdul Aziz.

Malaysia's top mobile operator Maxis Communications may expand into regional markets like India and neighbouring Indonesia within the next two years in search of new business opportunities.

Two more consumer groups have taken the Malaysian Association of Youth Clubs to task for its plan to launch an anti-smoking campaign with help from two major tobacco companies.

Presiden PAS menafikan kemungkinan kehadiran golongan profesional dalam parti itu menjadi punca kekalahan teruk PAS pada pilihanraya umum lalu.

Information Minister Abdul Kadir Sheikh Fadzir says a new code must be drawn for the media but pledges that the government will not interfere.

The straight As students and their families seem to think that 4As give them the 'divine right' for a place in medicine at local universities.

After seven years, rights watchdog Suaram manages to hand its annual report to a minister. It hopes that this will be the beginning of a ' strengthened and protracted' relationship between human rights advocates and parliamentarians.

Bahagian-bahagian Pemuda Umno dijangka mencalonkan gandingan Hishammuddin-Khairy untuk menerajui pergerakan itu dalam penggal akan datang.

Conflicting statements by the Finance Ministry over the availability of funds for government expenditure have caught the attention of Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang.

Pengurusan Harakah mengenakan 'tindakan disiplin' kepada beberapa wartawan yang menerbitkan artikel Farish A Noor. FATHI ARIS OMAR berhujah, tindakan itu terlalu kasar dan tidak perlu.

The International Trade and Industry Minister says global trade talks, possibly resumed by July, could founder again if rich nations raise thorny issues with developing economies.

Malaysia's industrial output rose 14 percent year-on-year in April, supported by positive growth in all sectors, and was up 1.6 percent from March.

Malaysia pledges to help wipe out piracy on the Malacca Strait and work more closely with the United States as part of a stepped up multi-national campaign against regional terrorism.

Given the presence of 'hawks' in both China and the United States, the Asian giant's attempts to make itself less vulnerable could be construed as an aggressive move, according to scholar Prof Wang Gungwu.

The deputy premier warns that the use of US forces in Southeast Asia to fight terrorism would fuel Islamic fanaticism in the region and potentially generate great social and political instability.

Malaysian authorities should reveal whether there are any Burmese secret police operating in this country, says a journalist who was abducted and detained by unknown assailants last week.

The Bar Council urges DBKL not to waste ratepayer's money to upkeep their subjective concept of morality but find ways to serve the public better.