Archive - 22 March 2005

Wan Min Wan Wat bagaimanapun dikenakan perintah kediaman terhad di bandar Kota Baru, ibu negeri Kelantan, mulai semalam, dan mesti melaporkan diri kepada pihak polis setiap hari.

The Dewan Rakyat this afternoon set aside an hour to debate an emergency motion on abuse of the 'halal' logo.

Datuk Rosli Mat Hassan (BN-Dungun) berkata iklan itu tidak mencerminkan identiti dan budaya orang Melayu yang mementingkan kesantunan dan budi bahasa.

Laws, especially those that infringe upon citizens' fundamental rights and liberties, must be changed and the concerned groups feel that an independent commission is the best body to do that.

Broga residents want the Selangor government to stop the massive incinerator project to avert worse damage to the environment than that at Bukit Cahaya Seri Alam Agricuture Park.

They claim the advertisement, which is to promote the national Courtesy and Noble Values Campaign, went against Malay values and cast a negative perception.

China's rapidly growing class of brash tycoons is spending money on buying art and relics that two decades ago were regarded as useless remains from a feudal past.

Apart from being expensive and RTM running the risk of losing its audience, it could also put racial harmony at stake. But the state-owned station will not be daunted ... at least according to a blooper on a written reply to an opposition MP.

The movement asks that the five students released from ISA detention yesterday are not restricted to their respective home states.

Members of the Marginalised People's Network (Jerit) went to Putrajaya in the hope of meeting the premier, but he was not available.

Concerted efforts, including ACA action, will be maintained to ensure that opportunities for corruption are reduced, says the minister.

Reports in the Chinese-language newspapers last Friday quoted Political Secretary to the Prime Minister (Chinese Affairs) Dr Vincent Lim as suggesting that his boss did not make any utterance to the effect that...

According to the latest issue of international weekly Time , the five were nabbed on March 9 in a secret operation involving scores of security officials.

As Sarawak's dominant ruling Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu contemplates elections, its leaders have embarked on quiet campaigning at the grassroots.

Kata-kata menteri besar memperlihatkan tidak ada keikhlasan dan kesungguhan untuk menyelesaikan isu Felda Sendayan, apabila meletakkan syarat, peneroka mesti menggugurkan tuntutan saman.

Islam is not the religion of terrorists who blow up buildings killing innocent women and children. Islam is not totalitarian. It is democratic.

Former university lecturer Wan Min Wan Mat who was suspected of a role in the 2002 Bali bombings has been released from his ISA detention.

Speaking at a legal conference in Australia, former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim calls for an Asia-Pacific human rights court to prevent politically motivated abuse of the law.

Media reports state that the Selangor state government has stopped the Sepang Gold Coast project amid environmental concerns.

The two-day meeting, the first to deal directly with the issue, is being held behind closed doors at a secret location.

The government will table a motion in parliament calling on Burma's military rulers to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and speed up reforms.

L Magendtheran, 20, was jailed 30 months and given six strokes of the cane after immigration officers found six illegals hiding in his car as he attempted to cross into Malaysia.