Archive - 26 January 2005

Investigations into the death of more than 100 pigs at a farm in Malacca have ruled out an outbreak of the dreaded Japanese Encephalitis.

The hydro-electric project is expected to accelerate now that the more experienced Chinese team has taken over its management.

They include Iris Technologies, Maxis, Petronas, Telekom Malaysia, Scomi Group, Bumiputra-Commerce Bank, MAS and Multimedia Development Corporation.

The Malaysian government may be taking a more generous view of Rohingya refugees, but this has not translated into less harassment on the ground.

I refer to the recent raid by the Jabatan Agama Islam Wilayah Persekutuan (Jawi) on a Kuala Lumpur club during which some Muslim youth were detained and later abused and humiliated.

If the Batu Caves temple authorities have heard complaints about the fee in the past, they have not been listening.

On one hand, we put a humanitarian face to tsunami-hit Aceh and on the other, we are sending Indonesian migrants, many of whom are Acehnese asylum seekers and refugees, packing or face our incarceration and whipping laws as 'illegals'.

Power utility giant Tenaga Nasional Bhd says the increase is attributed mainly to strong growth in peninsular Malaysia.

To stem possible erosion of confidence among members, it is responding to grouses about party co-operative Koperasi Al-Hilal's misadventures.

In December I attended the wedding of my niece in Sri Lanka. One of my sisters lives there. We also formed part of the retinue escorting the bride and groom to...

'This is not the way to cooperate with each other,' Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar told a news conference when asked about Thaksin's statement that Thailand's most-wanted man had been arrested in Malaysia.

The Malaysian Youth Council sees several negative implications arising from an international tobacco industry congress and trade fair scheduled for November.

The 2004 increase was attributed to the introduction of new models, low interest rates, longer repayment periods and new brands.

Leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations signed an agreement in 2002 to allow easier travel in a bid to revive confidence after the bomb attack in Bali that year.

In one segment, a baby boy is shown growing up and graduating from university, turning to militant activities and dying in conflict.

Doramae Kuteh topped Thailand's most-wanted list with authorities alleging he was the mastermind behind the Jan 4, 2004 arms depot raid that reignited unrest in the south.

Malaysian wildlife authorities seized nearly 1,000 monitor lizards as they were about to be flown to Hong Kong where they would have ended up in cooking pots.

The world community, including allies of the United States, is opposed to any action by the superpower against Iran, says Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.