Archive - 24 December 2004

Once again Astro is said to have made a political decision. This time around it concerns an interview with the ex-deputy premier on the Arabic news channel.

They say the municipal council's warning against unlicensed Christmas' eve and New Year's eve parties is timely as certain groups in the past had used religious occasions to hold irreligious activities.

The opposition party wants the public to come out in full force to support the demonstrations against the 10 percent toll hike for the North-South highway.

Youth reform centers in the country achieve 90 percent success in helping teenagers with disciplinary problems get back on the right track.

Information chief Dr Haron Din wants the Islamic scholars leadership to be fortified and this has caused uneasiness among the professionals in the party.

A major consumer group reminds the premier that the people had placed their faith in him and his government and burdening them is not the way to repay this.

Pekerja semakin tertindas kerana dibelenggu pelbagai masalah seperti jaminan pekerjaan, gaji tidak setimpal dan tekanan dari majikan.

The political storms over British Home Affairs Minister David Blunkett's nanny affair and the withdrawal of Bernard Kerik from being nominated as American homeland security secretary should be a lesson to...

Longhouse dwellers in Baram claim that construction work in their village is destroying their only source of drinking water and want the human rights commission to act.

In a multicultural society, we must not be too rigid in claiming our own identities, but be willing to embrace our similarities as well as our differences.

The issue of apostasy among Malays should be dealt with, not through the courts but through Parliament and the state legislatures.

All religions in Malaysia have been traded off to some extent under the encroaching political culture, and the scenario would not be very different if the faith-obsessed PAS came to power.

Who do we turn to for guarantee that returning to our homes safely will no longer be an issue that keeps haunting our minds?

But to offset the fall in government revenue due to the cut in import duties, the government would raise excise duties on all new cars sold in the country by up to 250 percent.

Members of the neighbourhood security group, now being trained by the police, immigration and national registration department officials, will be armed with batons and handcuffs while the officers will carry a pistol.