Archive - 27 June 2005

Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib sependapat dengan Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak bahawa kekosongan jawatan naib presiden selepas penggantungan Tan Sri Isa Samad tidak perlu diisi sehingga pemilihan akan datang.

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi berkata Tan Sri Mohamed Isa Abdul Samad yang didapati bersalah oleh Lembaga Disiplin Umno, perlu berundur dari semua jawatan dalam parti.

It's been five years after the controversial closing of SRJK Damansara. More than RM200,000 was collected at the dinner to fund make-shift classrooms situated at a temple beside the original school.

Karpal Singh, the self-dubbed 'MP-in-exile' returned to Parliament today as 'MP-on-wheelchair' after serving a six-month suspension and recovering from a car accident.

Tengku Ahmad Rithauddeen hari ini enggan mengesah atau menolak sama ada terdapat juga aduan terhadap seorang lagi Naib Presiden Umno Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam.

Rafidah Aziz claims the party grassroots wanted the disciplinary board to send errant leaders to the guillotine.

Pengerusi DAP, Karpal Singh mula menghadiri sidang Parlimen hari ini walaupun kecederaan yang dialaminya dalam kemalangan jalanraya Januari lalu belum pulih sepenuhnya.

They were subjected to the minister's ire for persisting with questions on the identity of holders of Approved Permits for vehicle import.

JPA menetapkan 13 perkara sebagai kriteria pengesahan, termasuk syarat kemasukan, kurikulum dan silibus, nisbah pelajar-pensyarah, kemudahan belajar dan bahasa pengantar.

Because we do not understand the material basis of our politics, we allow the politics of race and religion to rear its ugly head.

Datuk Seri Najib Razak berkata 14 hari cuti am di samping peraturan bekerja lima hari hari seminggu berkuatkuasa 1 Julai ini adalah terlalu banyak dan akan membuat pekerja kurang berdayasaing.

With the announcement of the new university intake, opposition party DAP wants the current 'discriminatory' system replaced.

The Malaysian Medical Council is guided by the ministry's procedures in recognising the eligibility of applicants to pursue medical degree programmes abroad.

It is indeed heartening and reassuring to know that the Malaysian Medical Council (MMC) is seriously concerned with the poor quality of some medical schools and medical students...

Datuk Chin Chan Leong, 52 dibenarkan ikat jamin RM1 juta. Bekas remisier, Hiew Yoke Lan, 43, dituduh bersubahat dengan Chin.

Pengarah eksekutif Institut Penyelidikan Ekonomi Malaysia (Mier) Prof Emeritus Mohamed Ariff berkata ia akan menjadi satu kesilapan dasar yang besar jika M'sia berbuat demikian.

A parliamentary roundtable calls for full transparency in the de-recognition process of the Crimea State Medical University medical degree.

When our dependence on technology is complete, there will be no dissent possible in a non-democratic system.

They want the party president to raise the matter with the cabinet so that immediate action can be taken.

Both Malaysia and Indonesia could learn much from Korea which worked out the issue of illegal migrant workers using a win-win solution.

Boy, he's angry, Ruhayat X. Have a good Monday, everyone!

The deal was hailed as another step in the fast improving ties between the neighbours, which have endured a tense relationship.

Deputy Prime Minister Najib Razak said the country's 14 holidays, in addition to the five-day week to start on July 1, were excessive and would make workers less competitive.

Johor has been hit by a giant oil slick believed to be the region's worst environmental disaster in recent years.

Air quality levels in several towns on mainland Malaysia, across from Penang and extending into northern Perak state, were officially unhealthy

The ACA has promised a full investigation into allegations that false claims for tsunami aid had been made in Penang.

A trend of "moral policing" has seen Islamic values increasingly interfering with peoples' private lives, Suaram said in its 2004 human rights report released on the weekend.

She still plans to deliver a law lecture in the Southeast Asian nation on July 25, but will skip a charity event six days later that is part of the gala opening of the Starhill boutique complex.

Federal Territories minister Isa Samad, also a vice president of the main ruling party Umno, is the biggest scalp so far in the drive launched after Abdullah came to power in 2003.

Umno says that it is committed to fighting graft, but a culture of silence among fearful members made it a difficult battle.

Tycoon Amin Shah Omar Shah says the controversial multi-billion-dollar contract to build 27 high-tech vessels for the navy is intact despite delays.

Chin Chan Leong, 52, pleaded not guilty to "creating the misleading appearance of active trading" and affecting the price of shares of the listed company Fountain View Development.

However, fishing groups criticised the slow pace of the clean-up and experts warned the spill could cause irreversible environmental damage to marine life.