Archive - 4 August 2004

A letter purportedly giving Perwaja's approval to pay a Japanese firm RM76.4 million was the centre of contention in former Perwaja Steel managing director Eric Chia's criminal breach of trust hearing today.

Eighteen workers from the Punjab, India, have accused their employer of serious abuses while lodging a complaint with the human rights commission.

An Infoline article on human rights at a local government level has landed the Malaysian Bar in hot soup following a police report lodged by an Umno division in Selangor.

The three respondents in a key dispute involving the NUBE are being nudged to resolve sticking points that stand in the way of fresh polls for office bearers.

Tanah Merah, satu-satunya daripada 14 Bahagian Umno di Kelantan yang belum menyelesaikan persidangannya, diarahkan mengadakan semula mesyuarat kesemua cawangannya.

Chen Jian and his fellow historians are now recording and documenting WWII resistance in Sabah and Sarawak with the final objective of incorporating the results into a larger narrative.

A study reveals that the number of female prisoners in Malaysia is still small, but foreigners feature prominently among them.

The comments of An Orthopaedic Surgeon in his/her letter delivers some interesting insights into the prevailing paternalism of Malaysian medicine in some quarters.

translation The unexpected by-election in Kuala Berang has given bitter political rivals Umno and PAS a fresh chance to make a point about their popularity.

Umno Shah Alam kesal Majlis Peguam menerbitkan artikel dalam buletin rasminya tanpa mengambil kira perasaan orang Islam dan status Malaysia sebagai negara berbilang kaum.

Singapore and Malaysia come under the microscope, as their views of Islam and responses to multi-culturalism are weighed.

Jika parti pemerintah cenderung untuk menggunakan ISA bagi mengukuhkan pemerintahannya, maka tentu ia tidak bersedia memansuhkan undang-undang zalim itu.

Nigerian anti-piracy agents and police have arrested six Malaysians and a Filipino and seized illegally copied music CDs and movie DVDs worth roughly RM1.25 million.

Several names are being bandied about to fill the various posts held by Dr Judson Tagal, who died in the chopper crash.

The Kelantan Umno division youth leader implicated in money politics has denied being the mastermind behind the IC scam or using students to raise the number of nominations supporting him for the division chief post.

Singapore suspends duck imports from a farm in Perak after a bird from the farm was detected with a low-risk bird flu.

If the Malaysian government is not willing to do this, then the flow of migrants will continue unabated, warns an Indonesian minister.

The government cannot direct Proton to sell a stake because this is a business venture, says Trade and Industry Minister Rafidah Aziz.