Archive - 14 January 2005

Lawatan, bermain golf dan menginap di hotel mewah...adakah semua ini boleh dianggap sebagai lawatan rasmi? Begitulah halnya dengan lawatan pegawai tinggi Kerajaan Negeri Melaka ke Amerika Syarikat.

Mystery deepens as all the five deputy ministers from Sarawak deny that they are being investigated by the ACA for corruption.

Tours, golf and fancy hotels, does this sound like an official visit? Apparently it is, according to Malacca state government officials, whose wives and kids, followed them on the RM1 million visit.

Eleven Utar students are worried that they would be expelled for non-payment of fees. One who spoke up claimed that PTPTN has not disbursed the student loans.

Those who suffered losses must be compensated as soon as possible, says the opposition party. It also tells the utility giant not to be bogged down by claims procedures.

Many have urged the Indonesian government to stem the alleged corruption among its military personnel which is hampering relief work. Today, three Malaysian organisations say they have not encountered such problems.

USM historian Professor Abu Talib Ahmad says it was not true that all Malay Muslims in Malaya were pro-Japanese, collaborators and quislings during the 44-month Japanese invasion and occupation as there were also partisans and resisters.

I refer to your report 'Power outage hits KL, southern states'. Why and how did this happen? While Tenaga Nasional Berhad sits pretty and claps its hands for an anticipated tariff increase soon, who is watching what they do?

Extensive underground expansion of big cities brings risks and modeling events like floods and tsunamis are important to risk assessment and planning.

There is a shortage of volunteers involved in operations to unearth the bodies and this is posing a problem. Two young Malaysians, one of whom was born without hands, are helping out and they want others to join them.

Indonesia has told Malaysia that its troops will be allowed to continue their humanitarian work in tsunami-hit Aceh province despite a demand that foreign soldiers leave soon.

Both governments accepted the recommendations of a group of expert advisers and agreed to use them as the basis of a mutually acceptable solution.