Archive - 12 January 2005

A former ISA detainee's determination to hold the Immigration Department to account for 'unlawful' detention has run into difficulties.

Three volunteers of a global NGO were held for several hours in a fishing village where they had been providing post-tsunami services.

The multi-partisan parliamentary caucus has yet to undertake its inaugural task of sending a fact-finding mission to the prison to probe a recent riot there.

In the course of battling terrorism, certain governments have blocked the funds belonging to Muslim and Arab NGOs, who are now unable to channel money to the tsunami victims.

The special Parliamentary sitting called to debate water privatisation has raised eyebrows among certain quarters, but a government minister insists that its necessary.

The ACA dropped a bomb when it revealed that one of the five deputy ministers from the state is being investigated for corruption. This has sent the speculation mills into overdrive.

Some enforcement agencies, according to commissioner Prof Hamdan Adnan, do not even bother to send representatives to attend human rights workshops.

I wish to comment on the government's decision to allocate RM20,000 for each death of family members suffered by the tsunami survivors. Firstly, let me say that I am in total agreement...

God is, and has always been, the God of the whole of humankind, of all the universes. God is not the prized possession of any particular religion or community.

They see him here, they see him there... and Anwar Ibrahim's visit to Sabah has stirred fears within Umno that will not be easily soothed.

Jumlah korban yang besar di Aceh telah menimbulkan perbahasan di kalangan masyarakat Islam di Malaysia berhubung cara terbaik untuk mengkebumikan ribuan jenazah terbabit.

Worried that aid is being misallocated and not reaching Acehnese affected by the tsunami, several Malaysian activists have devised an alternative strategy.

The investigations commenced in 2001 after members complained about several multi-million ringgit investment schemes.

The tsunami death toll in Aceh has raised particular questions for the Muslim community in Malaysia, in relation to funeral rites.

The ex-premier will do three laps in a Porsche Cayenne around the Formula One racetrack, carrying passengers on each circuit at a special event on Sunday.