Archive - 25 September 2004

A UNDP seminar in Kuching learns that poverty rates among the Iban in Sarawak is the highest at 10.5 per cent.

PAS hari ini menjadi bahan gurauan beberapa perwakilan Umno yang menyifatkan parti itu sebagai 'parti ikan laga'.

Don't fear any political backstabs from me - that's the message loyal Najib delivered to party president and Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi at the end of Umno's 55th annual general meeting.

Umno Youth exco member Dr Pirdaus Ismail defends Badruddin Amiruldin's remarks on Malay rights saying that they were not aimed at all Chinese Malaysians.

The report prepared by an independent consultant is expected to make recommendations on remedial works in regards to the cracks on th e beams of the closed flyover.

Malaysian police are still waiting for the latest information on the hideout of two Malaysians suspected to be behind the bombing at the Australian Embassy in Indonesia on Sept 9.

Higher Education Minister Dr Shafie Salleh declares at the Umno assembly that he will never allow non-Bumiputera students to enter UiTM.

This is the first instance of money-politics claims that has been reported to the disciplinary committee since the commencement of Umno's 55th annual general meeting on Tuesday.

Lim Kit Siang asks an Umno leader to honour the public defence made by past presidents of the party that Malaysia is a secular democracy and not an Islamic state.

Although many have expressed surprise with his stunning victory, the victor himself claims he was not because he is a popular guy.

translation Anwar Ibrahim has been receiving a steady stream of visitors from near and far since he was warded at the Alpha Clinic in Munich for spinal treatment.

We must avoid any problems that can weaken Umno. Things such as money politics cannot be allowed to happen, says the party president.

The nation state of Iraq is merely a colonial creation and well considered partition may be the best option for peace

The self-professed reformists must go through a process of reflection and soul searching, to think and act beyond the debilitating limits imposed by the politics of race and religion.