Archive - 14 April 2005

Pada masa ini, lembaga disiplin Umno tidak mempunyai prosedur penghakiman yang khusus dan menggunakan kebijaksanaan masing-masing dalam mengadili kes-kes yang dilaporkan kepadanya.

Bowing to parliamentary pressure, a minister informs the House that the proposal for the select committee - earlier dismissed as unnecessary - will now be re-submitted to the cabinet.

Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik berkata malaysiakini boleh didakwa kerana menyiarkan gurauan April Fool.

Women are blamed for poor male sexual control with some MPs claiming that the uniform of MAS stewardesses could arouse male passengers' particularly on boring, long-haul flights.

The MTUC tells the government it has nothing to lose if the ILO convention on freedom of association is ratified to benefit thousands of the country's workforce.

Razali Ismail, 25, meninggal dunia kira-kira jam 9.27 pagi ini di Hospital Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (HUKM) setelah tidak sedarkan diri sejak kejadian terbabit.

Presiden PAS melahirkan kebimbangannya terhadap kempen menentang kawalan moral dan menyatakan ia berpotensi mencetuskan suasana hura-hara.

Iris Technology is currently not doing any business with Rangoon's military junta. However, the technology company confirms that it had a pilot e-passport project three years ago, which has since ended.

The minister considers malaysiakini 's prank on April 1 'punishable' under the law, adding however that he was in no hurry to charge the website.

Parliament was told today that the government will not bow to the demands of those who want the civil and Syariah laws on public morality abolished.

Two single fathers pour their hearts out to Dina. She should have become a shrink; she'd be rich by now.

Berikutan tuduhan Amerika Syarikat bahawa MILF ada hubungan dengan Jemaah Islamiyah dan Abu Sayyaf yang didakwa ada kaitan dengan al-Qaeda.

Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri Datuk Dr Abdullah Md Zin berkata pihak pendakwaan mendapati "ada fakta tidak lengkap dan tidak boleh dijadikan asas pertuduhan".

The PAS president states his concern on the recent campaign against moral policing, saying that it has the potential to provoke chaos among Muslims.

I think it is about time that the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Mohd Nazri Aziz is given a crash course on the constitution and the workings of the various institutions...

We have learnt that human rights advocates must be perpetual optimists and it is in this spirit that we have penned this letter.

Rich industrialised countries are urged to increase funding for developing nations struggling to provide clean drinking water, sanitation and affordable housing to millions of poor.

The foreign minister was commenting on an US allegation that the MILF, with whom the Philippines is set to start peace talks next week, may have ties to two al-Qaeda-linked groups.

Japan has not shown sincere remorse over its wartime atrocities and still had military ambitions, says an influential Chinese group in Malaysia.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Malaysia has a strong case for sovereignty over an oil-rich maritime area also claimed by neighbouring Indonesia.

Human Resources Minister Fong Chan Onn is happy enough with the state of industrial relations and sees no reason to adopt International Labour Organisation recommendations.