Archive - 8 January 2005

Kampung Saujana residents, who are being forced to relocate from their 'temporary' housing, are demanding a police probe into alleged intimidation and abuse of power by the Shah Alam mayor.

What to watch out in Asia this year? Expect Asia giants China and India, and other regional players, to continue to rise even as disaster tests their mettle.

This will co-incide with the newly formed party's two-day inaugural conference which will be attended by delegates from various branches and to elect their new leaders.

The Sarawak Transport Company, a public bus firm owned by a key politician and the state government, is in danger of folding up.

Our Earth will continue to work out its incomprehensible and violent history without any regard for the puny will of a puny species like ours.

The government says it wants public feedback on the EIA report of the country's first commercial waste-recycling plant in Semenyih, not far from where a mega-incinerator is to be built. The report is available at RM1,000 per copy.

Will there be a contest for the MCA presidency come the party's triennial general assembly in August? A lot depends on how Chua Jui Meng, who has been unceremoniously dumped as a key cabinet minister last year, makes his move.

It is reported that an Indonesian radical group known as Laskar Mujahidin had set up camp in Indonesia's Aceh province.

As the toll continued to climb, international concern also rose about the impacts on the multinational relief operation from a 28-year-old separatist insurgency and a potential danger from Islamic militants.

The United Nations and other aid agencies established the base at Subang military airport to overcome congestion problems at Indonesia's overwhelmed airports.

He says many houses and properties were destroyed because they were dilapidated and built too close to the sea.

Rizal Shahputra, who was rescued on Monday evening by a container vessel after floating at sea for more than a week, will be allowed to remain in Malaysia.