Archive - 20 August 2004

Apart from being assaulted, they also allege they were called 'communists'. The students are seeking help from Suhakam.

'No comment,' says the national news agency's chief editor over a directive - later denied - which the agency said was from the PM Department's barring newspapers from reporting the bird flu outbreak.

'We don't care about the position. We don't protect anyone,' says the Umno secretary-general.

The minister, who also heads a parliamentary committee to peruse criminal laws, claims national security laws have never and will never be misused.

A voter in the Kuala Berang constituency has made a police report over a press statement made by an Umno leader which alleged that PAS supporters had thrown away Umno flags put up for the upcoming by-election.

If it is not a design failure, why does the works minister need such an exorbitant amount, asks a puzzled Lim Kit Siang.

The Federal Court allows a request by the attorney-general that the judgment be deferred, making it the second time it has postponed the matter.

Dismissing the suggestion by Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail's lawyer, the BN candidate claims the witnesses were merely stating the truth.

Residents are questioning its introduction and demanding that the council buck up by enforcing existing rules and not take the easy way out of depriving dog owners of their basic rights.

When the stakes are so high, is it any wonder that politicians say one thing and do another? PBDS rivals are in that 'strategic' mode.

All facts about the outbreak, which was first discovered in Kelantan on Wednesday, will be revealed to the public, says the deputy prime minister.

The Islamic opposition party criticises the government's approval for the German rock band to perform in Malaysia next month which coincides with a Islamic religious day

But the minister says the doors to her ministry are always open to those with problems and adds that there are many grey areas concerning transsexuals.

For Chinese Malaysians, the collective memory of the brutality of the Japanese army during WWII will linger for some time to come.

The history of political dissent within Singapore, lies predominately outside its borders, as expats continue to unite for the democratic cause

Orang Melayu di Malaysia banyak menerima arahan Tidak Boleh. Tidak boleh itu. Tidak boleh ini. Buat itu salah. Buat ini haram ...

MN Amin's argument that 'Anwar Ibrahim is a convict plain and simple', and thus is not entitled to special treatment compared to other prisoners would be perfectly valid if Anwar's conviction was indeed fair.

The former cabinet minister is not through with politics yet. Just appointed education envoy, who can now rule him out as a potential chief minister of Sarawak?

They point out that the non-recognition by the government of their sex-change status resulted in severe difficulties for them when dealing with both public and private institutions.

A turtle named Henry heads for the South China Sea one moonless night ...

If found, poultry products will be destroyed at border checkpoints.

Russia will send Malaysia's first cosmonaut into space in October 2007 as part of a scientific mission aboard the International Space Station.

The Chinese announcement - which said the H5N1 strain of avian influenza had been found in pigs as far back as last year - could have ominous implications for efforts to restrict the disease's spread to humans.

A teenage girl from the Kelantan village where a lethal strain of bird flu has broken out has been hospitalised with cold symptoms but is not believed to have caught the virus.

Malaysian producers who supplied 130,000 live chickens, 20,000 ducks and millions of eggs a day to neighbouring Singapore had already lost millions of ringgit since the city state banned imports on Wednesday.

Trade liberalisation will most likely increase death, disease and the economic costs due to tobacco use, primarily by making cigarettes and tobacco products cheaper, more accessible, more easily marketed and promoted.