Archive - 10 August 2004

Family members and human rights observers cry foul when the magistrate bars his family's counsel from acting as a legal representative at the proceedings.

Another group has joined the storm of protest over an article in a recent newsletter published by the Bar Council.

PAS mungkin ambil kesempatan dalam pilihanraya kecil Kuala Berang untuk tunjukkan ia masih bernyawa, kata Naib Presiden Umno, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yasin.

Pemilihan Umno September ini dianggap sebagai pusingan terakhir usaha untuk 'menyegarkan' semula pucuk pimpinan parti itu di mana pemimpin 'muda' akan dipilih ke jawatan tinggi parti.

translation With the Kuala Berang by-election looming, Umno Hulu Terengganu appears to be calm.

Tell us the truth, demands Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang. He wants the recommendations made by the Special Police Commission be publicly disclosed.

Their decision to publicly name candidates for the council chairperson's post has ruffled George Chan's feathers. He says it's wrong to lobby via the media.

The NUBE saga may be extended despite being so close to resolution, because one party is opposed to the latest proposal.

Open burning activities in Kalimantan have again been blamed for the haze spreading over the state.

Transsexuals who undergo a sex change operation may achieve one need, but do not necessarily resolve all their problems.

Anwar Ibrahim has been suffering from a serious spinal injury since 2000. As much as they try, local doctors are not able to cure his affliction. Physiotherapy and medication cannot solve the problem. Only surgery can.

A Penang businessman is accusing the MCA politician of withholding crucial information regarding the planned demolition of a historical jetty settlement in the state.

Numb and bewildered, the families of some of those who died in recent violence in the restive provinces of southern Thailand are coming to terms with their loss.

Dalam menghadapi pilihanraya kecil Kuala Berang, Umno Hulu Terengganu nampak tenang, tetapi khabarnya masih wujud rasa tidak puas hati akibat pemilihan Umno bahagian bulan lalu.

Its CEO-in waiting Lee Hsien Loong is determined to inject some soul into the ersatz occupants but his plan is trapped in the incoherent desire of the state's need to micro-manage citizen participation.

This time it is due to a family bereavement of one of the three judges who was to hear the application by the jailed politician.

Soaring oil prices and a slowdown in China's economy are a double-whammy for Asian countries but will not plunge the region into a recession or derail economic recovery.

India's largest financial institution opens an office in Kuala Lumpur to facilitate expanding trade between the two countries.

In its first report, the police commission reveals that the force is riddled with corruption from top to bottom.