Archive - 4 June 2005

While official results will only be known tomorrow morning, the impatient delegates may have reasons to believe that a wind of change is sweeping the party with a 43-year-old leader elected as the new deputy president.

Dr Lim Keng Yaik is expected to attend the parliamentary roundtable on water privatisation next Friday. Special interest groups and trade unionists will also be there.

PAS Youth is angry with the Umno-like lobbying tactics of aspiring candidates in the party polls and demand that their lobbying agents be sacked.

The Perlis menteri besar says he will pursue the idea at the next meeting of menteris besar and chief ministers, and hopes it will be adopted nationwide.

In his birthday address, the king says the government's initiatives to improve the public delivery system must be expedited for the well-being of all Malaysians and the nation's interest.

The minister insists that she is only interested in results and making a difference when championing any cause or issue, such as the one on getting better terms for MAS stewardesses.

A Kedah delegate suggests banning the media from covering the meeting because of the many negative reports about the party emerging from it.

The core issue here is not merely the personal fortune of Terence Gomez. It is about the role of the university and its relation to the society at large, especially its uneasy relation to political power.

Former colleagues of the late Jamaican journalist pay tribute to a genuinely nice guy with the ability to inject humour even at the wee hours of the morning when closing a conference newspaper.

Five men and a woman were arrested by Malaysia police for exporting the club drug ketamine in coffee to avoid its detection by sniffer dogs.