Archive - 12 March 2005

Data is being collated on the rightful needs of senior citizens for inclusion into the Ninth Malaysia Plan to provide for a better social security system and to harness and turn the massive human resource potential into national assets.

Worldwide consensus has built around the idea that empowering women is the most effective tool for development and poverty reduction, and that remaining obstacles to gender equality can be overcome.

German auto giant Volkswagen (VW) will start to assemble its cars in Malaysia at the end of this year, the company said.

The unemployed 35-year-old was charged in the Magistrate's Court in Kuching today with the murder of prominent lawyer Fabian Lim Ann Hoaw about three weeks ago.

Works Minister S Samy Vellu says that clean-up works at the Sultan Ismail Hospital in Johor Bahru will be completed within 10 weeks of the disbursement of allocation by the Treasury.

The group of nine Indonesian legislators met with Pak Lah and three Malaysian MPs and declared later that they were 'satisfied' with the visit.

But a Unimas lecturer says the administration is getting their priorities wrong as they should be concentrating on improving the standard of university education instead.

The sight of angry Indonesians burning the Malaysian flag and chanting the slogan 'ganyang Malaysia' ('Crush Malaysia') brings back painful memories of the Konfrontasi (Confrontation) between Malaysia and Indonesia from 1962 to 1965.

Those conditions for an ideal inter-faith conversation are far from present in present day Malaysia. They are far from present all over the world for that matter!

Nelayan Kota Kuala Muda sudah menunggu lebih dua bulan untuk mendapat bot baru melalui skim pinjaman Dana Nelayan tetapi sehingga ini tiada sebarang khabar berita.

In the past, Sarawak has banned political activists from entering the state. But former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim is not on its blacklist.