Archive - 6 January 2005

It's been a harrowing 10 days for everyone in Southeast and South Asia. But hopefully with the arrival of aid and relief teams into the disaster areas, the situation will...

MTUC mounts a fresh attempt at a peace plan for the embattled National Union of Bank Employees and seeks the Human Resources Ministry's cooperation to end the 3-year crisis.

AltAid Aceh-Tsunami representatives say Indonesian military personnel are putting themselves ahead of the Acehnese Tsunami victims.

Kerajaan Terengganu mendakwa hasil cukai pintu adalah untuk membiayai pihak berkuasa tempatan dan kadarnya rendah supaya tidak membebankan rakyat.

While the world rushes to aid tsunami victims in Aceh, Sri Lanka and other affected countries, the military-run Burmese nation seems to be overlooked.

All the fuss in Umno Youth over the use of Malaysian airspace by Singaporean jet fighters only reflects an unnecessary insecurity on Malaysia's part.

With a new leadership, the unions' umbrella body has pledged to be more vocal and persistent in advancing and protecting workers' rights.

Hundreds of factories are dumping their waste into the rivers and DAP warns that if remedial measures are not taken, the outcome will be catastrophic.

It is believed that Malaysian crime figures are also implicated in the network which lures students into accessing money illegally transferred from other people's accounts.

The premier says the visit will give him an opportunity to see the actual situation there as well as to allow him to meet the Malaysian relief team.

Recounting his eight-day ordeal, Rizal Shahputra says he managed to cling onto an uprooted tree after being washed away by the giant waves while repairing a mosque in his village.

The scarcity of halal food in the tsunami-hit areas in Thailand has driven two non-governmental organisations in Malaysia to send aid to the affected region.

An Indonesian journalist who disclosed the figures, also revealed that the Indonesian government was slow in reacting to the disaster.

The South Asian tsunami disaster has reminded us of our vulnerability to nature's forces and the need for greater international cooperation.

DRB-Hicom started talks with Suzuki in the middle of last year and expects to finalise negotiations by the end of this year.

Opposition Leader Lim Kit Siang slams the "cold and indifferent attitudes" of oil-rich Gulf states.

Mobile phone text messages seeking financial aid for Acehnese orphans made homeless by last month's tsunamis and offering them up for adoption are possibly a hoax.

The agriculture minister says that since no new cases of bird flu had been reported since Nov 22 last year, we can declare the country of being free of the virus.