Archive - 25 October 2004

The party's secretary-general Lim Guan Eng outlines five 'priority' areas to rectify the nation's economy and finances.

An opposition party has complained to police that two banners it had displayed to call for the resignation of Works Minister S Samy Vellu have been removed.

Parti Keadilan Rakyat leaders claim former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim has never indicated that he wants to seek a royal pardon, despite a move underway by an organisation to submit a pardon memorandum to the King on Oct 31.

PAS Youth's apparent magnanimity has less to do with empathy than with an insistence on the truth being told.

The resounding mandate given in the last general election was to Pak Lah's team. It would take a bad case of myopia not to recognise that.

Lawyer M Puravelan, who is representing the mother of a missing police detainee, was unable to attend the proceedings as he is undergoing surgery.

What are the strengths and weaknesses of Umno, PAS and Parti Keadilan Rakyat in the multi-ethnic and multi-religious political landscape? An academician shares his views.

Odd statements, strange notions ... such is the stuff that drives political statements today and which eventually wreak havoc on fingernails.

The government will arrange for more ferries so that the thousands of Indonesian illegal immigrants under a Ramadan month amnesty programme can return home without any hitches.

A newly formed group called Padu will urge the king to pardon former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim. Things have to heal and the nation must unite, says the group which met for the first time yesterday.

The Raffles Medical Group said it has agreed to buy Island Hospital Sdn Bhd, a 240-bed private hospital in Penang, for RM110 million.

Proton chief executive Tengku Mahaleel Ariff is reported to have flown to Germany after an emergency board meeting over the weekend to ink the pact.