Archive - 29 January 2005

The government is set to crack down on hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants when an amnesty for them to leave the country expires on Feb 1.

Sarawak is the nation's leading liquefied natural gas (LNG) and oil producer and that's why many are baffled at to how the state could face a diesel shortage.

The natives are very concerned about encroachment, they want protection and they want the ownership status of NCR land established as quickly as possible, says Prof Dr Hamdan Adnan.

But the MCA Acbe Garden branch chief says that it will still consider the set-up as an unofficial Puteri wing, as the status is important.

The former premier feels that the world is still primitive because it solves problems by going to war and killing people.

If only the world's compassion for the victims of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean will expand to those suffering in an extended silent tsunami that is sweeping through Africa.

Inilah peluang untuk penguasaha ikan tempatan memiliki bot sendiri selain memastikan khazanah laut negara tidak dibawa ke negara jiran.

The DAP chairperson was in a taxi on his way home from the Penang Airport last night when he met with the accident.

The Lunar New Year is the only time when all Chinese business activities come to a complete halt. They deserve to celebrate their success with a vengeance as they have worked hard all round the year.

Despite Malaysia's new-found status as a 'moderate Muslim state' by none other than the neo-con establishment of Washington, things have not really changed here.

Malaysian authorities said they had seized nearly 300 pangolins being illegally smuggled out at the Malaysia-Thai border in Perlis.

The world's biggest grouping of Islamic nations has established an alliance to rescue children orphaned by the recent tsunamis from foreign influences.

A 50-year-old rubber-tapper in Kedah was gored to death by an elephant that turned on him after he teased it with a stalk of sugarcane, police said.

Manila says that it will seek a lesser penalty for a Filipino sentenced to death in Malaysia but warn the drug trafficking charges against him are serious.