Archive - 23 May 2005

Former health minister Chua Jui Meng was among them when nominations closed today but several other divisions will see a close race come polling day for party's divisional elections this weekend.

Three-year-old Naomi Leong, who was born in an Australian immigration detention centre and has spent her entire life behind barbed wire, will have her first taste of freedom tonight.

24 hours after he claimed that there was a new al-Qaeda-style group in Malaysia, Deputy Internal Security Minister Noh Omar made an about-turn.

Dr Siti Mariah Mahmud takes a step closer to being the first woman to be vice-president in the conservative Islamic opposition party.

Mahathir was a great champion of freedom of speech for Third World nations, but also a great champion of silencing free speech in his own nation.

The long haul out of foreign debt and a serious budget deficit are still bedevilling the Friedmanite economist president.

Ruling parties MCA, MIC and Gerakan have their own educational institutions. So why not a 'Universiti Umno', says Higher Education Minister Dr Shafie Salleh.

Bridget Welsh's article on the sorry state of the universities in Malaysia hit the nail on its head, and a hard hit at that. Yes, the Gomez resignation is just the tip of the iceberg.

But both countries declined to give details on how differences had been ironed out, especially on Kuala Lumpur's policy to protect its domestic automobile industry.

Deputy Internal Security Minister Noh Omar refused to give any specific details but said the group's members and their activities were currently being monitored.

The Norway cruise liner, once one of the most glamorous vessels in the world, set sail from Germany today to head for an uncertain future in Port Klang.

Ruhayat X catches hold of one of his works written over two years ago.

Malaysia will begin testing migratory birds for avian flu and maintain a ban on Chinese poultry after the H5N1 virus killed an unknown number of birds in China.

A Malaysian couple has offered to sell their unborn child in order to pay for heart surgery for their seven-month-old son.