Archive - 4 December 2004

A decision has been made and that's the final one, declares the prime minister as he brushes aside talk of its reversal.

Umno leaders who refuse to cooperate fully into investigation of money politics in the party should be prosecuted, says the opposition leader.

Lim Kit Siang offers his party's backing to the government motion to discuss post- Arafat Palestine.

Minister Dr Lim Keng Yaik will use the Land Acquisition Act to acquire areas needed to set up telecommunication transmission towers to increase coverage in Malaysia.

A deputy minister points out that blood are not sold by government hospitals, only a service fee is charged for tests.

In a lecture in South Africa, Anwar Ibrahim says, among other things, that no society can progress without a sustained process of internal criticism.

AIM calls on the government not to extend the detention order of five ISA detainees as there is no proof of their alleged involvement in subversive activities.

The Kelantan mentri besar did not say what was reported in a Malay daily, says his political secretary who believes that the fabricated story was part of an attack launched by Umno Kelantan.

As I surfed the channels, struggling with the difficult question of whether I should watch the world crumble on CNN or settle for a cartoon, I stumbled on a gripping Hindi movie instead.

This satirical piece is dedicated to the memory of the founding fathers of Asean, whose noble dreams of building an Asean of, by and for the people of Asean we have betrayed so shamelessly.

Human nature seems to be such that, if and when people do possess the ring of invisibility, or the anonymity in cyberspace, there would always be those who would be more than tempted to not follow moral or juridical laws.

Banks have been asked to immediately furnish full details of charges following complaints from customers of extra payments and auto-debits involving a wide range of transactions.