Archive - 28 June 2004

Efforts to reopen the SJKC Damansara school picks up more momentum as some 2,000 people attends a fund-raising dinner.

Walaupun Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Syed Razak Syed Zain kekal di bahagian Kuala Kedah, tetapi sebuah cawangan telah mencalonkan timbalannya untuk menentang beliau.

Speaker Dewan Undangan Negeri Kelantan arah Datuk Mustapa Mohamed dan Datuk Annuar Musa memohon maaf dalam tempoh 14 hari, kerana mempertikai perlantikannya bulan lalu.

Unable to make headway with the police, the mother of dead detainee G Francis Udayapan has written to the premier to intervene in getting the body released for burial.

They say that after all they have done for the school's cause, it was improper for the fund-raising dinner committee to invite a BN rep to speak instead.

Among others, the pro-tem political party wants the government to guarantee freedom of association, decent minimum wage and halt privatisation of essential services.

His 'vast experience, credentials and networking' has made him a prized possession and the opposition party does not want to risk losing such a leader.

Datuk Seri Nik Aziz Nik Mat berkata PAS menerima keputusan petisyen kerusi Parlimen Pasir Puteh kerana parti itu menghormati amalan demokrasi yang selaras dengan Islam.

Yet another step is in place to enable the beleagured Sarawak political party to hold elections and finally set its troubled house in order.

Top cop Abu Bakar Mustafa was asked to come to the agency's headquarters in Shah Alam to 'assist investigations' pertaining to his case.

Rush-hour Komuter services were disrupted this morning due to a train being derailed, but are expected to resume this evening.

The emasculation of the judiciary in 1988 is coming back to haunt the country. SUGU explains why even as he applauds a senior lawyer's recent attempt to prod the national conscience.

The magistrate's court discharges the pro-democracy activists of unlawful assembly but the cops nab them again over an immigration offence.

There is strongly suggestive data pertaining to short-term (acute) effects from seasonal exposure to haze, including excess mortality among the frail and elderly.

An international meeting of government and maritime officials will discuss ways to beat piracy and prevent terrorism on the high seas in Asia.

The elusive former Communist leader's trips to Down Under, his speeches and the people he met during the 1990s there, are now revealed in an academic monograph published by Singapore University Press.

US president Bush tops hate stakes with 54 percent of the votes polled among a selection of 1,140 people.