Archive - 10 May 2005

The Bar Council has acted on its conviction that section 46A of the Legal Profession Act 1976 should be repealed.

Mahkamah Rayuan mendapati perintah Timbalan Menteri Hal Ehwal Dalam Negeri Datuk Noh Omar itu dikeluarkan lewat 104 hari.

They have heard it all before and will put little faith in mere assurances that life will be better for women some day.

The government has taken pains to trim its budget deficit. But why is it 'wasting' RM400 million by removing its current double-tracking contractor and hiring a new one, asks opposition leader Lim Kit Siang.

Jurucakap Kedutaan Amerika mengesahkan semua tuduhan terhadap mereka telah ditarik balik, dan mereka telah dibebaskan.

The wildlife department will check on claims that orangutans of the endangered Sumatran species are being kept at a resort in Malacca.

Menteri Luar Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar berkata siri letupan bom berlaku di negara itu mungkin mengakibatkan keadaan politik tidak stabil dan keganasan yang berterusan.

Teka-teki berhubung masa depan Prof Dr Muhamad Zohadie sukar terjawab apabila beliau mengambil sikap berdiam diri berhubung desakan supaya meletak jawatan yang mendapat liputan meluas media.

Akhbar di Australia melaporkan, seorang anggota militan Islam, Asman Hashim kini sedang ditahan di bawah ISA sejak tahun 2000.

Pemimpin kesatuan sekerja mesti mengikis persepsi bahawa aktiviti mereka mesti mendapat permit atau mesti mendapat kebenaran kerajaan, kata presiden MTUC.

BEM berkata pihaknya akan tetap mengiktiraf pelajar lulusan program aeroangkasa UPM walaupun program itu dipindahkan ke Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.

Menurut Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, kes mereka akan dirujuk kepada Jabatan Peguam Negara untuk tindakan selanjutnya.

While I applaud Noor Yahaya Hamzah for his bold call to reduce low-cost labour immigration to help solve Malaysia's graduate unemployment problem, his economic logic is flawed.

Eminent Singaporean scholar Professor Wang Gungwu shares his views on recent political developments in China, Japan and Taiwan, where history has often intervened in decision-making.

The Men To Men Association in Penang is to hold a seminar to educate counterparts on various forms of violence that involve or affect men.

new The origins of Silat Pulut. And we thought weddings were all about making babies, hantaran and stuffing our faces silly.

The labour movement's failure to strike out in its own direction in pursuit of workers' rights is due to lack of knowledge of basic rights.

The origins of Silat Pulut. And we thought weddings were all about making babies, hantaran and stuffing our faces silly.

The Union of Forestry Employees Sarawak says it has been notified of the government's intention for an early hearing of its appeal against the decision of the court last December.

The power circles in Washington are viewing the prospect of John Bolton's nomination as US representative to the United Nations with some trepidation.

Police and embassy officials said they did not know whether the men were still in Malaysia or had left the country.

The foreign minister says that the string of deadly bomb blasts there indicated political instability which could result in continuing violence. The government is not sure of what is happening there.

The top budget carrier is in talks with local and foreign lenders to finance the acquisition of 60 new A320 Airbus aircraft worth US$3.7 billion.

The Australian newspaper reports that the suspect, Asman Hashim, is presently being detained under the ISA here since 2002.