Archive - 9 December 2004

Hakim Mahkamah Sesyen tidak benarkan pihak pembela mengemukakan soalan berhubung dakwaan wujudnya konspirasi Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim untuk menyingkirkan Eric Chia dari Perwaja.

The deputy internal security minister claims that 12 detainees had prevented officers from searching their block, resulting in a riot.

The defence's plan to show that the former deputy premier had plotted to oust Eric Chia from the company was thwarted by the judge, who rules that it is irrelevant to the case.

The party's parliamentarians are protesting against the charges imposed by banks that are burdening customers and criticised the central bank's lack of enforcement.

A group of farmers from one of the largest vegetable farms in the country are fighting relocation after their land has been earmarked for a housing project.

The temperature is expected to hit feverish levels at the opposition party's national congress next week, which will see key seats, except for the president's, be up for grabs.

PAS memfailkan 23 petisyen ke Mahkamah Tinggi dalam pilihanraya lalu, bagaimanapun semuanya gagal. Dan parti itu sedia memberi bukti lagi jika SPR mengkehendakinya.

In what is described as an 'unexpected' decision, the high court orders the government to issue the employees an option to join the newly-formed Sarawak Forestry Corporation (SFC) or remain in public service.

I am not surprised that in the light of recent uncomplimentary reports about Suhakam commissioners, some social activists have demanded that those who are unwilling to contribute their time and energy to human rights causes should resign ...

Assoc Prof Mohamed Talhan Idrus says the lack of environmental knowledge among policy makers and authorities is behind the Penang government's adamance in clearing George Town's only mangrove tract.

Over the past four years, more than 200 have died in Thailand, mostly from black lung disease, an illness associated with breathing air laden with too much coal dust.

The plan will reduce illegal logging - a rampant problem in Indonesia, which annually loses vast swathes of forest to the unauthorised timber trade.

The local branch of a Malaysian off-shore bank in Australia, which recently wound up and had RM5 billion mysteriously drained from its accounts, claims it no longer has ties with the parent bank.

Unveiling its joint venture with Awair, an Indonesian firm dormant since it was grounded by intense competition in 2001, AirAsia saw off its first flight from Jakarta to the city of Medan.

Indian Malaysians are getting very little or no help at all from the government in trying to beat the odds in improving their lot.

Kelantan Umno leader Annuar Musa alleges that money from a Muslim welfare organisation in Malaysia has been channelled to a rebel group in southern Thailand.