Archive - 17 July 2004

The state's fire and rescue services department says the combination of the caller ID devices and the 'lecturing' efforts of the department's staff have reduced prank calls tremendously.

Do they agree to use the list of the 2000 party elections and do they think that the sacking of 12 of their opponents was 'invalid.' The group is keeping mum...for now.

The unusual motion was passed today in order to stem queries whether Gerakan chief Lim Keng Yaik would ever step aside for his No 2 Kerk Choo Ting.

Is it a symptom of a declining civil service? And will the cabinet members be similarly hauled up before the privileges committee, as Karpal Singh was, asks Kit Siang.

More aircraft and personnel are deployed as the search and rescue operation for the missing chopper with seven on board enters its sixth day.

International human rights groups want the leaders to exert diplomatic and political pressure, since nothing has changed under Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's administration.

It has become a battle of wills for supporters of Anwar Ibrahim and Abdullah Ahmad Badawi as the former's health took a turn for the worse this week.

The Kelantan prince received his first nomination for the Umno president's post today. Not surprisingly, it came from the Gua Musang division.

Take away the cloak of man-made ideologies like nations and nationalism, and we are all human beings and descendents of migrants - without exception.

Groups want the government to depart from the existing practice of dropping all proposals it gets on the issue of rape, incest and domestic violence into the black hole of government bureaucracy - never to be heard again.