Archive - 23 August 2004

Do you have grouses against the media? You can now go to Sukaham for redress. This new idea was mooted following complaints of sex-slanted reporting during several recent rape and murder trials.

The state government aims to build quality affordable houses in the future and not 'stables' as the locals call the current low-cost houses.

The issue of marital rape has many dimensions, including that relating to religion.

As calls resurface for marital rape to be treated as a crime, one group advocates prior attention to social re-education as a long-term strategy to curb its incidence.

The works minister's five-day trip to India should not prevent the cabinet from discussing the matter in order to find a quick solution, says DAP.

I read a recent newspaper report on the Warrior's Day commemoration ceremony at the National Monument in Kuala Lumpur and was shocked to note that for the second year running the Yang di-Pertuan Agong did not attend the ceremony.

translation Malays here are constantly told not to do this and that. This is the product of the power struggle between Umno and PAS.

Though well-intentioned, expatriate websites have thus far failed to reach their potential in delivering political change to Singapore.

Undercurrents in Sarawak politics have resurfaced over an unlikely matter - the fixing of the date for a seminar.

Over-fishing and environmental degradation will wipe out the terubok population in the next three years if concrete steps are not taken to prevent further losses.

A company owned by Negeri Sembilan's royal family, would build the 700 MW coal-fired power plants.

Nicotine addiction is well entrenched in Malaysia and no amount of lip service to tobacco-control will change the situation.

Yet another flare-up occurs between the management and staff with their workers' union upset over plans to room an extra staff in what the they claim an already overcrowded quarters.

'If the confrontation in Najaf is not defused, it will inflame emotions and may create unpredictable conditions'.

The Malaysian Human Rights Commission (Suhakam) had urged the government to make marital rape a crime, but Perak state mufti Harussani Zakaria said the move went against Islam.

The warning came as the Australian government launched its first training programme at a new US-backed Southeast Asian counter-terrorism centre in Kuala Lumpur.

The World Health Organisation warns that liberalising the trade would incur major health and economic costs.

All seven patients admitted to hospital for checks after an outbreak of a lethal form of bird flu in Malaysia have tested negative for the disease.