Archive - 24 January 2005

DAP's Ng Suee Lim claims his detractors are trying to divert the attention from the real issue by pinning the blame on him for the cancelled Cairo trip.

In 1968, a large chunk of SRJK (C) Khai Chee's land was sliced to build Jalan Kuching. More than three decades later, plans to expand the road, is vexing the school authorities again.

A public interest group based in Tamil Nadu, India, is to organise a protest against a tobacco industry event to be held in Kuala Lumpur later this year.

In the light of Peter Lee's letter, I thought a little perspective on this subject might be in order. The UK Financial Times newspaper, in its Asian edition dated Jan 20, carried...

Interesting differences have emerged in voting patterns between 1999 and 2004, based on preliminary research findings by the John Hopkins University.

Little progress has been made in protecting the human rights of homosexuals, particularly by governments.

It is suggested that to exist, as a "free human being" one must first be aware of the visible and invisible systems created by other human beings.

Malaysia, which chairs the world's biggest grouping of Muslim countries, has warned the United States that an attack on Iran would be of "great concern" to the Islamic world.

Foreign cash has been pouring into Malaysia, hiking its foreign reserves by 19 percent or RM40.7 billion (US$10.7 billion) in the fourth quarter of last year alone.

Party leader Wan Azizah expects Anwar would take an official position in Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) once he was free to do so, and that many in the party saw him as the future leader.

The Malaysian navy intercepted and boarded a Taiwanese fishing vessel which had been seized in a mutiny by Chinese crew members who locked up the captain and other Taiwanese sailors.

A large majority - 70 percent - of all Malaysians surveyed however said they led calm lives.

The health authorities have placed a remote tribal area in Sarawak under quarantine after a deadly outbreak killed 13 children and an adult.