Archive - 18 November 2004

It is nine days and counting to the news website's fifth anniversary bash and the seats are filling fast as subscribers and supporters are prepping themselves to mingle with the faces behind the bylines and be blown away by ICT.

The PAS government hopes the appointment of the professor, who was born in China, will help the state explore new markets in the republic.

If a nationwide official investigation, coupled with a sustained press campaign, is launched to account for 'lost` Malay reserve lands, many officials and business people would become jittery.

The government is going after an 'errant' netizen following allegedly seditious remarks about Islam and Malay privileges.

The villagers say the trees, whose timber fetch a high price, were planted by their ancestors and harvesting its fruits had provided them with income.

The Penang government claims the allocations are for all elected reps but the opposition say they never get their hand on it. Now, they are contemplating legal action.

Michael Soosai is part of the 235 prisoners on a hunger strike at Simpang Renggam. His wife has not been able to meet him and now fears for his life.

After nearly three decades of logging, the Semai community in four villages in Sungkai, Perak, are preventing loggers from entering their ancestral land.

Despite complaints and reservations against it, the Penang government says the policy will continue as the priority is to ensure that the lower income group and hardcore poor get a roof above their head.

There is an interesting debate in respect of the Malaysian-ness of immigrant Malaysians in this forum. The candid and frank expression of views unheard of in the conventional media is perhaps symptomatic...

Anwar Ibrahim plays his political games so flawlessly and faultlessly, so much so that he controls Umno as surely as his counterpart in Hamelin eight centuries ago.

Having rediscovered his cultural identity through mastering his mother tongue, educationist Dr Kua Kia Soong shares his personal experiences, as well as the relationship between language and cultural identity.