Archive - 17 August 2005

Timbalan Perdana Menteri itu menuntut gantirugi berjumlah RM6.5 juta daripada penulis buku "50 Dalil Mengapa Anwar Tidak Boleh Jadi PM", Datuk Khalid Jafri.

Pencabar jawatan presiden MCA, Datuk Chua Jui Meng mendakwa 'kenyataan bersama' yang dikeluarkan oleh Presiden MCA, Datuk Ong Ka Ting mengandungi 'banyak persamaan dengan manifesto yang dikeluarkannya sebelum ini.

The Chinese edition of Malaysiakini was launched last night together with the Yellow Ribbon Internet forum.

Although two states have raised their muftis to position of state excos, it will not be sufficient until they are insulated by the vicissitudes of politics, says a mufti.

The minister's warning about impending toll hikes has led the opposition leader to demand disclosure as was provided over the Approved Permit lists.

Abdul Kahar Ahmad, 55, diiringi puluhan pengikutnya ketika dihadapkan di mahkamah dan dibebaskan kemudiannya dengan ikatjami RM8,000

The MCA presidential candidate says he is flattered that the incumbent, Ong Ka Ting, has emulated him in producing a document on his vision for the party.

Former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim will find out tomorrow how much he has been awarded by the High Court, in his defamation suit against author Khalid Jafri.

Dalam sepucuk surat bertarikh 15 Ogos, Penyelaras Suaram, Seah Li Ling berkata, pihaknya mendapati 'kumpulan minoriti' itu mengamalkan 'kepercayaan mereka secara aman dan mematuhi undang-undang'.

After a barrage of insults, an enraged Tajuddin Rahman decided to get physical with a DAP leader in the Perak state assembly.

RHB Capital Bhd, kumpulan perbankan keempat terbesar di negara ini, dikatakan "membeku" cadangan penukaran namanya kepada CMS Bank Bhd ekoran bantahan salah satu pemegang saham besarnya.

Outstanding public intellectuals are an 'endangered species' here and therefore political science lecturer Prof P Ramasamy should be reinstated.

Suaram has asked a UN special rapporteur to take up its complaint of state-led persecution against self-styled spiritual leader Ayah Pin and his followers.

Bacaan IPU Jabatan Alam Sekitar (JAS) pada jam 11 pagi menunjukkan ianya berada di paras 32 dan 72, tanpa satupun kawasan mencatatkan kualiti udara "tidak sihat".

The movement hopes that similar conflicts in Sri Lanka, Thailand and the Philippines will also be resolved through talks and negotiations.

Perjanjian Damai Aceh itu menamatkan perang saudara selama tiga dekad yang mengorbankan 15,000 orang sejak 1976.

Datuk Dr Fong Chan Onn adalah calon paling kanan bagi jawatan naib presiden MCA dan faktor ini mungkin membantunya untuk mengekalkan jawatan tersebut dalam pertandingan sembilan penjuru dalam pemilihan parti itu Sabtu ini.

In 1984, our beloved founding father and first prime minister, Tunku Abdul Rahman advised the Malaysian vernacular press to be responsible in the articles they write...

In a video-cast to Berlin, the ex-deputy premier tells Islamists that embracing democracy and freedom does not mean converting to Western values or ideals.

This week, it's Professor Hamdan Adnan, Suhakam commissioner, who speaks of his taste for Kadazan music, a story he often relates to students, and his devotion to his family.

China's transition to a flexible exchange rate has been in the works for so long that the revaluation neither stunned nor fooled observers.

MCA vice-president Dr Fong Chan Onn makes a case for re-election at Saturday's party polls, drawing from his professional qualifications.

A Malaysian woman who said she was subjected to sex up to 35 times a week spiked her New Zealand fiance's drinks to 'slow him down'.

High oil prices have forced US electronic firms operating in Malaysia to downgrade their export sales forecast for 2005.

Asean senior officials meeting in Penang warned that dry weather and monsoon winds meant the smog could worsen if the fires were not controlled.

Plantations Minister Peter Chin met with top managers from 18 companies operating in Indonesia, and said they all denied using slash-and-burn techniques.

Malaysia's manufacturing sales in June rose 14.9 percent year-on-year to RM39.3 billion, according to an official data.