Archive - 22 December 2004

Apart from the troubled UEM, other key owners of Plus are government-linked companies - Khazanah Nasional, Employees Provident Fund and Social Securities Organisation.

The Committee Against Unfair Toll Increases (Cauti) had requested for the postponement. But the highway concessionaire says it has already got the green light from the government.

The inquest was taken to the UMMC mortuary today where missing police detainee G Francis Udayappan's mother again identified a highly decomposed body as that of her son based on recognisable peculiarities.

Masyarakat India Muslim didakwa menjadi mangsa diskriminasi oleh agensi kerajaan seperti pihak hospital, Mara dan beberapa agensi kerajaan lain.

The 30-odd workers from Kedah want the plantation company to pay adequate compensation and provide them with low-cost houses as promised.

I refer to the letters 'Teras penyatuan bangsa bermula dari sekolah' by Dr Mana and 'Vernacular education has kept Malaysians divided' by K Narayanasamy. It seems that every time...

Professor Shad Faruqi criticises calls to enforce laws against Muslims who seek to declare their conversion, saying constitutional provisions cannot rule on matters of the heart.

While the top leaders say the convention was a smashing success, delegates are wondering if any action would be taken on the issues raised.

Even the albums of popular Irish band U2 are banned in Burma after they wrote a song for the nation's top dissident Aung San Suu Kyi.

The lawsuits keep piling and his car mysteriously bursts into flames. But the editor-in-chief of an Armenian newspaper refuses to back down.

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak says closing the border would seriously hurt the local population and trading activities on the border.

'It is not easy to prove anything from photos. It is not easy to prove that the pictures were taken in Malaysia or anywhere in the world. It can also be in Thailand,' said Home Affairs Minister Azmi Khalid.

Apart from facing the lawsuit, the missing groom is also looking at unemployment as the Kedah Football Association wants to terminate his two-year contract for tarnishing the state team's image.