Archive - 14 March 2005

The media practitioner who lodged the reports four years ago says the current focus should be on the power of the menteri besar to give away huge parcels of land, not environmental degradation.

A newspaper claims they were fired at by a security guard who thought they were robbers. But another version is that 10 men claiming to be policemen opened fire on the workers without warning.

Malaysians ability to remain calm even when Indonesians torched the Malaysian flag, is definitely worthy of praise, says KPH Rusdihardjo.

Panelists make good case for the necessity to restore local government elections, made more urgent by the recent spate of blunders by state authorities.

The detainees, who were held for staging a protest outside the UNHCR office last week and sent to the Semenyih immigration camp, are now in fear over their future.

Contrary to what Farish A Noor says in his column, the Indonesians are no brethren of ours. This is amply proved by the deployment of their military to our territory in the Sulawesi Sea.

The 19-year-old Sonia Sharma says she was locked up, stripped naked, kicked, punched and beaten with a piece of wood by her employer who accused her of stealing RM40,000.

The Indonesian-owned tanker was carrying a cargo of methane gas from Kalimantan to Sumatra when it was boarded in the early evening on Saturday.

Our commitment to the Universal Declarations of Human Rights demands us to think for the poor and not be bought over by the rich. We must step out of the box or the box will suffocate us.

The case of MAS stewardess Beatrice Fernandez, who worked with the airline for 11 years before having her first child serves as a chilly reminder that all is not well in the country when it comes to matters of gender equality.

Abdullah said he was confident the maritime territorial dispute in the Sulawesi Sea off Borneo with Indonesia could be resolved through negotiations.

The state has fallen from its pole position in attracting foreign investment back in 1999 to number four in 2004, behind Sarawak, Malacca and Selangor. Kedah is expected to overtake the island state this year too.

The national carrier sacked Beatrice Fernandez in 1991 after she refused to comply with company rules by resigning after becoming pregnant.

The frogmen were deployed to assist with work to construct a lighthouse in a reef where workers there complained that Malaysian troops who landed on the reef had roughed them up.

Another bailout? The government is desperate to unwind its RM24.3-billion-ringgit contract with well-connected tycoon Amin Shah Omar Shah as the 'MOU King' may not be able to deliver.

Zaim mulls over a new hybrid of Malays: the towering ones. Are they humans or a new term for a building? We'd like to suggest wearing Manolos, Zaim.