Archive - 14 May 2005

The opposition leader says Raja Nazrin Shah should take personal attention into the case of Dr Edmund Terence Gomez who was forced to resign from the university recently.

The Land and Survey Department in Miri has put on hold an order to demolish the houses belonging to Malay families near Canada Hill that has been earmarked for a top-end property development.

The premier says the country's competitiveness will be affected if producers take the recent fuel hike as an excuse to increase the price of goods and services.

The 110 employees whose services were terminated abruptly yesterday claim they have not been paid since March. Poor sales is believed to have financially crippled the 75-year-old company.

Dr Mahathir's former press secretary Matthias Chang challenges Anwar Ibrahim to prove the allegations he made against their former boss on the BBC's Hardtalk programme.

There is no word yet from the BN top leadership although seven months had passed since the party applied to be a BN member.

There is much to be said of how the government can be of service to the youths of today. But it surely cannot be in the form of a compulsory national service or prison time.

Megah Kepong Sdn Bhd didakwa tidak mahu menjual rumah pangsa kos rendah kepada setinggan kerana mereka hanya sanggup membelinya pada harga RM33,000 seunit.

The movement's No 2 Khairy Jamaluddin says it will strive to realise the government's goal to produce a young generation of towering Malays with high intellect and a competitive edge.

The greater tragedy lies in the fact that critical minds can only see the poor performance of the MPs without seeing how our entire political process needs an overhaul.

Burma is among the countries that have ratified the two international conventions to stamp out forced labour, yet it remains a major violator of this illegal form of work.