Archive - 11 June 2005

In an dramatic about-turn, the government has overruled the controversial decision by Universiti Malaya to reject Dr Edmund Terence Gomez's application for two-year leave.

One can never take a politician's word in its totality, as exemplified by this Perlis MCA leader who confirmed yesterday he was going after the party presidency but retracted his words today.

Parti Rakyat Sarawak is less than a year old but there are already murmurs that not all is well in the party. Is its deputy president, Sng Chee Hua, quitting?

Despite being international institutions that preach good governance, decision-making in the IMF and the World Bank is far removed from the principle of one country-one vote.

Residents of Taman Kobena are living in fear of the impending collapse of their homes ever since developers began construction work in their backyards.

Could this be the end of the road for MCA's controversial woman leader Dr Tan Yee Kew? She is expected to appeal against her one-year suspension but will she find sympathetic ears among the party's top guns?

PBB watchers are focusing their attention on elections in party divisions in Kuching, the results of which is said to have a bearing of what is to come at the party convention in September.

Experts believe the problems facing the supply and management of water is not insurmountable provided that political will is used to find a speedy solution to integrate the different aspects of it.

For PAS to even dream of going for federal power is laudable. The proper role of an opposition party in any self-respecting democracy is that of a government-in-waiting.

The defence minister visits the French naval shipyard at Cherbourg where two Scorpene submarines ordered by Malaysia are being built.

After all, Penang had the first local government elections in the country. That was way back in 1951.