Archive - 31 March 2005

The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry calls for concerted efforts from all parties to prevent such abuse cases from increasing.

A total of 30,426 hectares of Orang Asli reserve land has yet to be gazetted in eight Peninsula states, prompting a BN backbencher to call for the process to be expedited.

The minister says the guidelines are needed as sexual crimes in the country are on the increase but the Education Ministry will decide whether it will be part of the school's curriculum.

Thousands of Kota Damansara residents are demanding for the de-gazetted area of the Sungai Buloh Forest to be immediately re-instated, failing which they will sue the Selangor government.

At a seminar on suicide and its impact on society, the media is encouraged to show sensitivity in its reporting and not portray suicide as a 'run of the mill' occurrence.

And the crackdown, which began on March 1, will continue as long as there are illegal foreigners in the country, says Deputy Home Affairs Minister Tan Chai Ho.

Badruddin Amiruldin cracked the House up when he wanted to know how long Fong Po Kuan's husband would stand her. The DAP legislator, who was not amused, demanded an apology.

Hishammuddin Hussein says the government's priority is to build more national schools to promote racial harmony and not vernacular schools.

The real threat to national unity, is the racial politics of Barisan Nasional, which is based on the myths of power-sharing and the balancing of racial interests.

It is indeed with faint amusement that I read the brouhaha over vernacular schools in Chinese being perceived as more superior than the Vision schools. I think the debate should be on...

South Korea's LG Electronics is considering making this country its regional logistics center for Southeast Asia but has no plans to set up a manufacturing base here.

The end of the world as we know it. Is the Day of Resurrection around the corner?

Kecuali tambang bas sekolah dikekalkan kerana kadarnya telahpun disemak semula pada bulan September 2001.

The university announces that Anwar Ibrahim, as a senior visiting fellow, will present seminars on contemporary Southeast Asian politics, economic reform, Islam and democracy.

A Suhakam seminar in Kuching also proposes that laws in conflict with native customary laws must be amended.

The carjackers chopped off accountant K Kumaran's finger as they needed it to bypass the luxury car's immobiliser system.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi singles out New Zealand expertise in biotechnology and its implications for agriculture as a key area of interest.

Rashid Maidin tells malaysiakini what spurred him to join the communists in this fourth of a seven-part series. The jovial octogenarian also reveals how inter-racial tensions in the post-war period were engineered to allow the British to return.

The statesman-like role Singapore played in hosting a tsunami summit and helping Indonesia during the 1997 financial crisis should also be reason to know that Singapore has always meant well for Indonesia.

Come the annual state convention next month, branch leaders are expected to grill the national leadership on why it appointed PK Subaiyah as its sole state exco while retaining Dr K Rajapathy as state chief.

Five gunmen, armed with assault rifles, boarded the boat in waters off Sabah before fleeing towards the southern Philippines with the boat's captain and two crew.

The Philippine navy is coordinating with the Malaysian police regarding the incident.