Archive - 15 January 2005

Dengue is here again and everyone's getting jittery, including politicians in coalition. Today, Gerakan Youth fires a salvo at the government in which it is a part of. The aedes mosquito's bite is indeed painful or so it seems.

A human rights lawyer-activist asks the human rights commission to explain its long silence over the controversial water privatisation plan which Parliament is expected to approve on Wednesday.

An industrty expert says that the southern region of Peninsular Malaysia is always susceptible to outages of power because it does not generate sufficient electricity of its own.

The deputy premier announces that RM70 million has been allocated to meet the housing needs of tsunami victims in Penang and Kedah.

India is a prolific fountainhead of influential culture and spirituality something the world will see nothing of, if the awakened giant is not allowed to trumpet it through the bullhorn of a UN seat.

Malaysian volunteers are now looking into another aspect of aiding tsunami survivors in Aceh - how to help get them out of their trauma.

The ACA director who spilled the beans says the five deputy ministers can say what they like but the agency's investigations will still continue.

In the face of so much mystery in our lives that is so hard to understand, we have to accept that there is a limit to what we can ever know, especially in matters of religion.

As more Asean governments give way to competitive global pressure and lower their labour standards, both migrants and locals are being forced to be at the mercy of market forces.

The Malaysiakini Tsunami Relief Fund is a focus on people-to-people solidarity. Initiators AltAid assures donors that donations collected will reach genuine tsunami victims in Aceh.