Archive - 6 April 2005

While few doubt that Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is committed to fighting corruption, there is however one major snag.

Setiausaha Agung DAP Lim Guan Eng mahu tahu bagaimana pembalakan haram di kawasan yang diwartakan sebagai hutan simpanan di Melaka dijalankan "di depan mata" Ketua Menteri sendiri.

Bagi memenuhi segera keperluan pekerja asing dalam pelbagai sektor di negara ini, sekurang-kurangnya sama dengan jumlah pekerja asing yang telah pulang ke negara masing-masing.

Selepas enam tahun, barulah kelihatan kerdipan cahaya harapan bagi penternak dan mangsa virus Nipah untuk mendapatkan gantirugi daripada kerajaan negeri dan pusat.

DAP leader Lim Guan Eng wants to know how a gazetted forest reserve can be destroyed right under the nose of the chief minister, whose office is just 5km away.

Penduduk Semenanjung dan Sarawak hanya perlu mengemukakan kad pengenalan dan mengisi borang IMM14 sehingga perisian untuk MyKad dapat disediakan.

The cabinet's decision not to set up a parliamentary select committee on water privatisation has been challenged by MPs who have insisted on this mechanism for public feedback on the controversial issue.

The new Parti Rakyat Sarawak wants the seats held by their former party comrades in PBDS but the claim was immediately shot down.

Leading by doing is what Malaysia needs from its ministers, not the culture of blaming everyone and everything else for their poor stewardship.

After six years, there is a glimmer of hope for farmers and other Nipah virus survivors who are seeking damages from the government at federal and state levels.

Datuk Shahrir Abdul Samad mahu tahu mengapa Menteri Tenaga, Air dan Komunikasi mungkir janjinya untuk tubuh jawatankuasa khas Parlimen bagi mendapat maklumbalas orang ramai mengenai cadangan pengswastaan air.

Jika bahasa Inggeris terlalu diagung-agungkan sehingga generasi baru kita menuntut ilmu dan dididik dalam bahasa asing itu, maka di manakah kedaulatan bahasa kebangsaan negara kita dan bahasa ibunda yang lain?

I am extremely disturbed and so are many Indians in the country by a recent piece in the Star entitled Standing up for Ceylonese...

Selain pihak polis, penulis Mohammad Rafi mendakwa didatangi beberapa ahli politik yang menawarkan beratus ribu ringgit untuk memujuknya supaya tidak mengedarkan buku tersebut.

Although the Quran itself lacks a specific term to express the concept of tolerance, it supports a number of different religious beliefs, laws and expressions in a positive way.

new The Assassin is back after a sojourn battling crazy women in Sarawak. Here, he tells a tale of another crazy woman: Kristy, his mistress.

BN MP Shahrir Abdul Samad wants to know why the parliamentary select committee on water privatisation will not be set up as announced earlier.

Writer Mohammed Rafi Awg Kecil, whose new book has highlighted 'new allegations' of corrupt practice involving Selangor Menteri Besar Dr Mohd Khir Toyo, claims he has touched a raw nerve.

Menurut Setiausaha Parlimen di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Dr Mashitah Ibrahim, ini kerana perkahwinan adalah soal peribadi.

Malaysian bloggers are now finding it the tough way that truth hurts - especially when the toes of powers-that-be are tread upon.

Jaya Prakash writes in from Singapore to tell us what hope means to all of us.

'If you want to be a moderate Muslim country, you cannot condone corruption,' said former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim.

They are seeking the Council of Rulers to review the Syariah enactments. The call for separation of powers comes in the wake of recent complaints of over-zealous enforcement of Islamic law by religious authorities.

Jet Airways will launch daily roundtrip flights from Chennai to Kuala Lumpur, with rival Air Sahara to announce its own plans soon.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi has already shown he will not shy away from differences with the Australian government, labelling Howard's foreign policy overly US-dominated.

State subsidies on oil products are doing great harm and barely any good in India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, says the Asian Development Bank.

Pirates in seven small fishing boats surrounded the tanker and attempted to board it late yesterday.

Malaysia's former prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, had repeatedly rebuffed Australia's attempts to join Asian economic and political groupings, scorning Howard as Washington's "deputy sheriff" in the region.