Archive - 29 June 2005

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi berkata beliau masih belum menerima surat perletakan Tan Sri Isa Samad daripada jawatan naib presiden.

Semalam, Datuk Seri Mohd Nazri Aziz, selaku pengerusi Kaukus Parlimen Mengenai Hak Asasi Manusia, menggesa supaya dibebaskan tahanan ISA yang sudah ditahan melebihi dua tahun.

MIC president Samy Vellu says the cabinet made the decision after he had highlighted the plight of students in the Ukraine-based university.

Hasil tangkapan laut meningkat mendadak sebanyak dua kali ganda di kawasan yang terbabit dengan bencana tsunami di Kuala Kedah, Tanjong Dawai dan Langkawi.

A backbencher proposes that MPs discard their boring suits and adorn batik shirts at least once a week. The suggestion was welcomed by the Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry.

Bagaimanapun, mereka yang merancang untuk melanjutkan pengajian di sana pada masa depan, terpaksa mencari pilihan lain kerana MMC tidak lagi mengiktiraf ijazahnya.

Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur akan mendengar permohonan Ketua Pegawai Eksekutif InventQJaya, Dr Sadeg Mustafa untuk mengenepikan arahan polis yang meletakkan syarikat itu dalam tanggungan.

Setiausaha Politik Tan Sri Isa Samad berkata, Lembaga Disiplin Umno membuat keputusan secara tergesa-gesa dan tidak disokong dengan fakta yang kuat.

Meanwhile 64 others who took part in a protest two weeks ago will be charged on July 26 due to an absence of a Burmese interpreter today.

Her ministry spent RM9.5million for eight trade missions in 2004 and RM1.1 million on three visits so far this year.

Mohd Nazri, as head of the parliamentary caucus on humans rights, has yesterday called for the immediate release of detainees who have served more than two years.

Several ministries took notice of issues related to the disabled as raised by Suhakam in its annual report last year.

BN Kelantan juga akan mengeluarkan manifesto pilihanraya lebih awal bagi membolehkan rakyat mengetahui program yang hendak dilaksanakannya jika dipilih memerintah negeri itu.

Dalam kejadian kira-kira jam 2.30 pagi Sabtu lalu, Asrin diserang sekumpulan remaja yang dipercayai dari Tanjong Tokong ketika beliau sedang bersiar-siar bersama rakannya di Persiaran Gurney.

I've carefully read the Hansard for that terrible date, June 21. The deputy speaker seemed rather composed. There was an apparent uproar. But such levels of decibels is...

PAS pushes ahead at full steam on becoming a mainstream political party that appeals to all. It does this at the risk of losing the support of those who see it as an Islamic movement first, political party second.

It is no point claiming that everything is being turned into a racial matter. Our society is built on a racial logic and critical areas of social life are based on racial decision-making processes no matter what we want to call them.

The proposals made by the special task force headed by educationist Murad Mohd Nor to revamp and strengthen national schools continues to be shrouded in secrecy.

Aneel David Kannabhiran discusses over the fate of organised religions and the Catholic Church.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court has set Friday to hear InventQJaya chief executive officer Dr Sadeg Mustafa's leave application to set aside a police order that put the company in receivership.

The ten Indonesians, mainly from the tsunami-hit Aceh province, admitted carrying out the attack armed with machetes.

A Laila Taib-controlled company was recently awarded two state government projects worth hundreds of millions of ringgit.

The cabinet on June 8 decided to impose a total ban on export of rubberwood sawn timber with immediate effect, says Commodities and Plantations Minister Peter Chin Fah Kui.

The Centre for Independent Journalism said the moves, including an order for Internet cafes to install anti-porn filters, could block legitimate searches for information on safe sex and condom use.

Pupils at a Penang primary school had assembled for a prize-giving rehearsal when the 32-year-old driver sped through the gates into the compound.

Media reports today say the suspected rapist was identified from closed-circuit television footage and tracked down to a cheap hotel where he was holed up with two women.