Archive - 16 July 2005

Participants of a national integrity congress pledge their total support and give feedback on the government's ongoing anti-corruption efforts.

The government is said to have contradicted itself on the objective of enhancing national integration due to the implementation of various controversial policies.

Pedu state assemblyperson Mahdzir Khalid will act as Kedah menteri besar when Syed Razak Syed Zain goes on leave to seek medical treatment

Najib Tun Razak urges the Umno machinery to go down to the grassroots to identify Malay students who have become dropouts due to poverty.

Abdul Karim Abdullah @ Kannan, high on the police wanted list, died in a shoot-out in a Chinese cemetery early this morning.

The 56th general assembly of the party scheduled for July 19-23 will also see the attendance of 51 Umno clubs overseas and 18 foreign political parties.

Dr Mohd Khir Toyo has been urged to be sympathetic to the school-going children in the affected villages and allow them to complete their examinations before asking them to vacate their homes.

Bill Clinton says that specific policy and operational challenges needed to be resolved for a successful recovery, including the creation of a common action plan for all actors.

The department's enforcement director is puzzled how overcrowding can occur when the figures of those held are way below the maximum capacities of the depots.