Archive - 16 August 2005

RM500,000 bagi setiap lapan tuduhan bersifat memfitnah yang terkandung dalam buku tulisan Khalid, RM500,000 kerana berkomplot, RM1 juta sebagai ganti rugi teruk dan RM1 juta sebagai ganti rugi teladan.

Dakwaan Menteri Perhutanan Indonesia itu dianggap tidak munasabah kerana ladang kelapa sawit mereka yang kini berusia antara tujuh dan 11 tahun, sedang mengeluarkan hasil.

Former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim explains why author Khalid Jafri must be made to pay for defaming him.

Several Chinese groups want leaders elected on Saturday to relinquish the party's control of the newspaper company.

The High Court today began assessing damages to be paid by author Khalid Jafri for defaming ex-deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim.

Crunch time is just three days away for this veteran, who displays all the traits that have helped him survive tumultuous episodes in party politics.

In this second part of the interview with former Malacca chief minister Rahim Tamby Chik, he talks about Umno and money politics, the Malacca state government, the New Economic Policy, government's accountability and transparency and rising political star Khairy Jamaluddin.

Mereka "mungkin terpaksa" menembak mati sekiranya menjumpai pihak yang disyaki sebagai pengebom berani mati.

Sekolah terbabit mempunyai murid kurang daripada 150 orang kerana kedudukan di kawasan pendalaman dan sukar dihubungi melalui jalan darat.

Syarikat Malaysia yang memiliki ladang di Indonesia dituduh paling banyak melakukan pembakaran yang mengakibatkan jerebu yang teruk melanda Malaysia minggu lalu

Despite the severity of haze in certain areas, there has been no great rush by tourists to cancel their plans to visit Malaysia.

The Umno supreme council member feels that all ministries and government departments should follow Miti in coming clean to promote PM's promise of a transparent and accountable administration.

Police officers, who may 'shoot to kill' suspected suicide bombers, have been deployed as a precautionary measure.

The government must show that it has the moral courage and the political will to put an immediate stop to the politicisation of universities, in order to stop abuse of power.

Malaysian companies which own Indonesian plantations were mainly to blame for the choking haze which blanketed parts of Malaysia last week, an Indonesian official said.

Kuala Lumpur plans to deploy some 25-30 peace monitors in Aceh.

Thai officials said the air pollution index had risen steadily on Phuket and warned of a possible return of haze to the deep south in coming days.

'We have the names of the eight. We don't know what sort of action we will take yet because we are looking for further information about them.'

Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said that an Asean agreement on haze must be translated into an action plan which can be rolled out when needed.

The C-130 plane, equipped with cloud-seeding devices, will leave for Sumatra island by the end of the week.

The haze from Indonesian forest fires has begun to clear in Malaysia's northern states and in Borneo island in the east, but shifting winds have sent it over neighbouring Thailand.