Archive - 11 June 2004

Despite flak from all round, the Malaysian Association of Youth Clubs defends its move to tie-up with tobacco companies for a youth anti-smoking campaign, saying it is 'happy for the chance'.

RN Rajah says the lawyer was left with no alternative but to leave the country when he was assaulted and threatened at gunpoint. Now that the government has guaranteed his safety, Uthayakumar will return to his 'beloved country'.

The 11,000-strong legal body wants the police to "demonstrate their seriousness" by immediately holding inquests on all previous deaths in custody.

The unprecedented transfer of the detainees, whose two-year detention orders expire tomorrow, has left their families puzzled about their fate.

Rather than spending hours debating its annual report in Parliament, Abu Talib Othman says it would be better if the authorities could act on the recommendations.

Contrary to what has been suggested in the media, the mother of deceased police detainee G Francis Udayapan has no qualms about giving her blood sample in order to confirm whether a corpse retrieved from the Klang River recently is that of her son.

Opposition leader Lim Kit Siang, who dubs himself a 'double-major' under the ISA, claims there is an attempt to make him a 'triple' in light of his comments on the Islamic state which he says were distorted by the media.

Malaysian police were today hunting more suspects after arresting seven alleged members of an international drug cartel involved in one of the world's largest illegal narcotics busts in Fiji.

An anti-corruption watchdog takes the former premier to task over his 'cavalier' response to the scandal and asks if he obtained a cabinet approval before shipping logs off to Harare for Mugabe's mansion.

Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar confirmed today that his country was willing to host a reunion between a US army deserter living in North Korea and his Japanese wife.

The 12,000 tonnes of toxic waste imported from Taiwan with a bogus licence has no radiation material, says the Deputy Natural Resources and Environment Minister.

The deputy premier says action must be taken in order to be fair to those who attended the training. He was responding to reports that only 97 youths called in after the names of more than 8,000 shirkers were published in the newspapers.

The former premier says there is nothing wrong with promoting Malaysian timber by giving the Zimbabwean president logs for his lavish 25-bedroom mansion.

The Malaysian Armed Forces fail their supreme commander-in-chief, who is none other than the King himself, on his official birthday. MGG PILLAI tells why.

Individuals and organisations concerned about human rights should see human wrongs when these are committed, and condemn them as such. So it must be too with the Middle East conflict.

Australia will not be cowed by the threats of "fanatics" said to be planning the assassination of Western diplomats in Indonesia, says Foreign Minister Alexander Downer in Kuala Lumpur.

Our deputy premier scoots off to neighbouring Singapore to discuss the pressing issue of regional security. But JOSH HONG says domestic security is in dire need of some looking into as well

Malaysia is prepared to host a reunion meeting between a US army deserter living in North Korea and his Japanese wife.

Illegal loggers and fishermen should be shot on sight, says the governor of an Indonesian province bordering Malaysia.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court adjourns to a later date a multimillion lawsuit filed by a group of human rights activists against the government for wrongful detention following a conference stormed by an Umno Youth-led mob in 1996.