Archive - 24 February 2005

A global recession is expected in three years and the head of an economic research institute says that Malaysia will gain by removing the peg on the ringgit before that happens.

Worried that the ex-Perwaja Steel managing director would suddenly quit the company, the finance ministry decided to go soft on the business tycoon.

For heaven's sake! Who on earth are those guys defending the actions of Jawi over its recent raid? It must be the same people who are gullible enough to be waiting with bated breath for the present prime minister to ...

Groups opposing the water privatisation bills say that the people and the relevant authorities must be better informed of its repercussions.

Keith does his best to learn our national language, Bahasa Melayu. He massacres it instead.

Are they taking to the streets with the sole aim of being arrested in order to speed up their resettlement in a third country? UNHCR and a Burmese leader offer their views.

One year after predicting greener pastures for Japan, the analysts are silent. Why? Because Asia's biggest and the world's second-largest economy is reeling again.

Calling it a 'milestone event', the minister notes that any attempt to make mankind more cooperative towards understanding each other was worth the effort.

To suppose, as the right-wingers do, that the banning of Valentine's day would somehow miraculously solve the problem of uneven development and globalisation is as nave and simplistic as their own overblown rhetoric.

Two police reports have been lodged accusing the politicians of embezzling RM10,000 collected at a fund-raising dinner. The mothers are now seeking DAP's aid in filing a civil suit as well.

According to statistics revealed by a government official, the Iban who make up about 30 percent of Sarawak's 2.4 million population fare the worst in terms of average family earnings monthly.

After all, it's not a pub or supermarket. A member of the Anglican community says residents should be happy that a place of worship is coming to their area.

The decision to close the Bangi plant was made after taking into account accumulated losses incurred by the business and an unfavourable forecast for growth and profitability.

The country's largest telecommunications company says it has offered 30,500 staff a voluntary retrenchment scheme as part of a manpower rationalisation programme.

The haze is back but this time they are not caused by fires in Sumatra. Firemen are battling bushfires in Pahang, Selangor, Kelantan and Perak.

The Malaysian and two Indonesians were arrested as they stepped off into the port of Zamboanga in late 2004 following a tip off about their movements.