Archive - 21 June 2005

Kerajaan negeri akan terus menguruskan perkhidmatan bekalan air mengikut model Perbadanan Bekalan Air Pulau Pinang (PBAPP).

The 'Coalition against Water Privatisation' was not to know that they would get part of its wish about two hours later.

Ex-Perwaja Steel managing director Eric Chia's lawyer has argued that the Kuala Lumpur High Court should not have ruled that evidence gathered in Hong Kong is admissible in the CBT trial.

The government is finally getting down to business and is currently assessing the best available technology for an early warning system for high-risk slopes in the country.

Energy, Water and Communications Minister Dr Lim Keng Yaik says the Penang model will be adopted as proposed by a public-interest lobby.

The issue of Barisan Nasional owing up to RM100 million worth of poll merchandises for last year's general elections is not going away. A Hong Kong supplier has gone to the media with her woes.

Ketika beribu-ribu pelarian menderita di pusat tahanan di sini, seorang daripada mereka menaiki pesawat untuk memulakan hidup baru di negara ketika atas bantuan UNHCR.

It is time Malaysia recognises the need for swift response, says the minister, who also sees security implications in the arrival of refugees.

Proton perlu bergabung untuk bersaing di pasaran dunia. Statistik tahun 2003 menunjukkan eksport kereta keluaran Proton hanya berjumlah 7,622 buah dan 12,818 buah pada 2004.

Sejak bertahun-tahun lalu, DAP mendakwa dua majlis perbandaran di Pulau Pinang memberi kontrak landskap bernilai berjuta-juta ringgit kepada syarikat ada kaitan dengan BN, khususnya Umno.

While thousands of refugees languish in detention centres here, one of them boarded a plane to start life anew in a foreign land after being successfully resettled by the UNHCR.

Islamic financial institutions must respond to the increasingly sophisticated needs of Muslim consumers, says Bank Negara governor Zeti Akhtar Aziz.

The letter 'Medical school ailing from 'know who' syndrome' by Product Of The System is one long jibe against Malay academic clinicians at the Universiti Malaya Medical Centre.

It is now out in the open - the leadership transition within Gerakan is now quite clear with the open clash between Dr Lim Keng Yaik and his deputy Kerk Choo Ting seemingly on the term limit of the party president.

The temptation to become a lapdog is strong. It's a cosy place, frilled out by concessions the government might grant in lieu of silence or worse, feathered by goodies the market is eager to provide in celebration of complicities.

Among the hurdles the industry faces are a lack of financial products to suit a wide range of industries, a shortage of skilled human resources and high product cost, observers say.

Over the years, two municipal councils in Penang have awarded landscaping contracts worth millions to companies with political connections.

special report Six months after fishing villages in the area were devastated by the tsunami, fishermen recall the immediate aftermath as they go about rebuilding their lives.

Permohonan PRS yang dicadangkan oleh Naib Presiden Parti Pesaka Bumiputera Bersatu (PBB) Datuk Adenan Satem, disokong sebulat suara dan tiada parti yang membantah.

Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy says the two carriers will cooperate on certain domestic routes as part of an industry rationalisation.

Just six hours after his birth on Sunday, the baby boy, whose parents are factory workers, was kidnapped from the Sungai Petani hospital.