Archive - 18 June 2004

Human rights group Hakam says the 17 refugees shouldn't have been held as they were from the troubled Indonesian province. The rights groups further claims that detained Acehnese refugees are being 'forced to accept voluntary deportation'.

The MCA president manages to keep his temper at bay despite being 'embarrassed' by his host with sarcastic remarks.

Complaints from the public will continue to pour in until police personnel change their work values and alter their mindset, said Inspector-General of Police Mohd Bakri Omar today.

Yet another death - the awkward position of his hands has R Magesvaran's family wondering whether the 29-year-old security guard took his own life as claimed by the police.

The police commission will hold public inquiries in several major towns of Sarawak later this month to enable people in the state to 'say what they have to say'.

The housing and local government minister says details of the conditional EIA report approval for the controversial incinerator project at Broga will be made public 'very soon'.

An estimated 105,000 Nepalese work in Malaysia and many have faced legal tangles after being duped by recruiters who sell them fraudulent documentation.

Malaysian scientists today said they had discovered ecological treasures on remote islands in the piracy-prone Malacca Straits, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes and a focus of terrorism fears.

The three-member Court of Appeal bench upholds the decision of the Kuala Lumpur High Court that the two factions in the bank union are illegal.

A foundation dedicated to promoting understanding between Asia and Europe denies allegations by a Singapore opposition party that the government there pressured it to withdraw funding for a human rights seminar.

After nearly four weeks of anguish, will the mother of G Francis Udayapan finally get to bury her son, whose remains has been lying in a hospital morgue since May 23? She gives her blood sample for a DNA test today.

When the premiership was handed over to him, Pak Lah promised that a much needed change was close at hand. The nation would see a gentler hand.

Keputusan DAP meninggalkan pakatan pembangkang Barisan Alternatif (BA) dikatakan membantu parti itu 'menang besar' dalam pilihanraya umum lalu.

The petition by PAS member Ahmad Jamaluddin had not been served on the minister within 15 days, thus contravening the Election Offences Rules.

Several issues pertaining to the directive by the cabinet to absorb 128 top-scorers into medical school pose many problems that beg for answers.

Palestine, the cause celebre of Malay-Muslims, has been embraced to the extent that the fate of Penang Malays, who are a minority on home ground, is likened to that of the Palestinians.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, which is the most upright Chinese newspaper in Malaysia? JOSH HONG says with all that has happened in the past three years, it's rather difficult to tell.

Innocent North Koreans are dying of hunger or are closed in concentration camps, as its leader Kim Jong-il continues to blackmail the world.

Alleged nuclear black marketeer BSA Tahir had escaped the first 60-day period where detainees usually have to face torture and abuse in the hands of interrogators.

The rights group notes that while Umno and PAS try to outdo each other over religious policies, it is the non-Muslims trapped in the middle who bear the brunt of it all.