Archive - 28 March 2005

A massive earthquake measuring 8.7 on the Richter scale struck undersea off Indonesia just after midnight Malaysian time, sparking fears of a new tsunami disaster.

Ujian DNA mendapati sarung sosej berkenaan adalah daripada sumber haiwan biri-biri. Sumber babi tidak dikesan.

Tetapi hakim mahu mendengar hujah sama ada pemohonan peguam P Uthayakumar untuk membatalkan waran tangkap itu didengar sebagai kes jenayah atau sivil.

The move may see the two leaders exchanging their posts, which many believe will be a 'win-win' situation for the party.

A Malaysian bank in which Sarawak chief minister Abdul Taib Mahmud's family business interest has a large equity stake, has given a RM3.6 million sponsorship for Singapore football.

But the judge first wants arguments as to whether lawyer P Uthayakumar's application to nullify an arrest warrant should be heard as a criminal or civil matter.

Menteri Luar berkata walaupun PAS memulaukan persidangan Keamanan Palestin, tetapi terdapat beberapa pemimpin PAS yang menghadirinya secara tidak rasmi.

In a written reply at the Dewan Rakyat, the prime minister reveals the number of National Registration Department staff arrested under the security law, which he says was used 'appropriately and carefully'.

Ketua Penasihat Kumpulan Jabatan Pengarang akhbar Malaysian Nanban Athi Kumanan meninggal dunia dawal pagi ini kerana komplikasi darah beku.

Despite expressing optimism, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar calls on the US deputy defence secretary to allay the 'well grounded' fears surrounding his possible appointment as the bank's head.

Abdullah CD, Rashid Maidin, Suriani Abdullah dan Abu Samah menceritakan kepada malaysiakini mengenai kisah hidup dan perjuangan mereka sewaktu Perang Pasifik dan selepas tamatnya perang tersebut.

In an exclusive interview with malaysiakini, MCA secretary-general Ting Chew Peh talks somewhat reluctantly about the party's current leadership, the Chinese school controversy and how the party operates in a constrained political climate.

The Malaysian Nanban chief group editorial adviser passed away early this morning following blood clot complications.

Dismissing talk that the party is now more preoccupied with 'social development', Dr Ting Chew Peh stresses that MCA still tackles all issues.

Institutions that have less than 50 students should merge and if they do it before 2006, the government will thrown in some incentives.

The government will draw up an advertising blitz to promote the cash-strapped park, which was closed last month.

I refer to the report 'Anwar takes on BN gov't over Chinese education' and the current controversy regarding MCA's request for more SRJK(C) schools...

Education is not about humiliating people in boot camps. This paradigm is only suitable for the creation of a master-slave relationship.

Ketua Menteri Sarawak 'mematikan' spekulasi yang beliau akan bersara daripada politik dan sebaliknya akan memimpin Barisan Nasional (BN) menghadapi pilihanraya umum negeri akan datang.

Ghazali Shafie lives the quiet life today, far removed from his heyday as diplomat, bureaucrat and minister, but with his convictions intact.

By agreeing to purchase 60 new Airbus aircraft and with an option to buy 40 more, the local budget carrier has become the single largest customer for Airbus in this region.

The Sarawak chief minister quashed speculations that he would be throwing in the towel by saying that he would lead the ruling coalition in next November's state elections.

Four veteran communist leaders - Abdullah CD, Rashid Maidin, Suriani Abdullah and Abu Samah - tell malaysiakini about their lives and struggles during the Pacific War and its aftermath, kicking off a seven-part series.

Ruhayat X discovers that he has breasts and that they are 32AA in size. He's off shopping for a bra.

The Cambodian premier says that his country will not join Malaysian campaign and opposes any activities aiming to split Asean.

A decision on a member of Asean is not made by a single country but by Asean as a consensus, says Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erakat calls for an immediate resumption of political negotiations and warned that unilateral action by Israel invites extremism.

The pretty 26-year-old pop princess will perform at London's Royal Albert Hall on April 1, becoming the first Malaysian to hold a solo concert at the famous London venue.