Archive - 16 April 2005

The opposition leader calls on Abdullah Ahmad Badawi to explain in Parliament his assessment of the effect of the anti-corruption drive he promised at the last general election.

A Sikorsky helicopter with nine on board was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after taking off from the Kerteh Airport near Kuala Terengganu today.

A SIS spokesperson brushes aside PAS' call for its de-registration, saying that the party's poor reflection of tolerance for pluralism does not merit a response.

The deputy premier is fuming over an Indon news report that he had apologised to the republic's defence attache in Kuala Lumpur over a recent Sulawesi Sea incident.

Two bodies have been fished out of the Sungai Sirah in Pusa following the sinking of a trawler fishing boat early yesterday morning.

The works minister says the government will not build a second Penang Bridge for now but the present one will be upgraded from four lanes to six.

In Part 2 of the 'non-debate' in the Muslim world, the writer focuses on how the public sphere has been systematically diminished as a result of the hate-campaigns and strategies of deliberate misrepresentation used by some groups.

Unfortunately for the ministers, malaysiakini was a little too close to home with their April Fool's joke, striking at the jugular vein of the entire government credibility in combating corruption.

Former US president Bill Clinton shares the problems of aid distribution to tsunami survivors as the United Nations special envoy for tsunami recovery.

Raul Castro, the communist Cuban regime's number-two official, was set to begin an official visit to China on Monday, on a tour also due to take him to communist-ruled Vietnam and Laos, as well as Malaysia.

The BN backbencher head says if the cabinet is dead set against the setting up of the select committee on water management, then they will ask for the draft bills to be presented to them before being tabled in Parliament.

Malaysia's oldest woman Lim Khoo Chai, who died on Friday in Perak at 113, said that being happy was the secret of her longevity.