Archive - 2 September 2005

Jawatankuasa itu akan membincangkan perkara-perkara berhubung Agenda Nasional Baru (ANB) yang dikemukakannya Pergerakan Pemuda Umno Julai lalu.

Ketua Pembangkang itu berkata beliau telah menemui Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi bulan lal dan memintanya campurtangan berhubung tindakan UKM menamatkan kontrak perkhidmatan Prof P Ramasamy.

A local R&D outfit is suing the government for nearly half a billion ringgit in damages for alleged termination of contract without reasonable grounds.

Kementerian Keselamatan Dalam Negeri juga digesa supaya membebaskan segera tahanan yang menunjukkan perubahan sikap dan pemikiran, setelah menjalani pemulihan di kem tersebut.

Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (Jais) khuatir ajaran mereka bertentangan dengan ajaran Ahli Sunnah Wal Jamaah yang menjadi pegangan umat Islam di negara ini.

A developer has been accused of firebombing a two-decade old temple and assaulting its caretaker while police personnel and municipal council officers did nothing.

Kalau di negara lain, sumbangan Prof P Ramasamy dalam membantu menamatkan pergolakan bersenjata di Aceh akan mendapat pujian. Tetapi sebaliknya di sini, perkhidmatanya di UKM ditamatkan.

The security law, commonly used against hardcore criminals, is ten times worse than the ISA, according to a group of civil society organisations.

Dr Mohamed Rafick Khan Abdul Rahman said that the MAS issue should be addressed from the Malaysian perspective. The problem is the Malaysian perspective is at odds with the national perspective.

Menteri Pelajaran itu berkata Bahasa Melayu hendaklah dilihat bukan sahaja sebagai bahasa perpaduan atau bahasa ilmu, tetapi juga bahasa yang menjadi identiti rakyat Malaysia.

Tension is brewing in the party. The Youth wing wants young women on the team but there is strong resistance from the Wanita chief.

The opposition leader said he met the prime minister last month and asked him to intervene in Ramasamy's case.

Prof P Ramasamy, whose post-retirement contract was abruptly terminated, talks to malaysiakini in this final of a two-part series about his involvement in the peace process in both war-torn Aceh and Sri Lanka.

Betulkah dakwaan Anwar Ibrahim bahawa minyak negara telah dicagar untuk mendapatkan pinjaman asing? Jika benar, bermakna, walaupun harga minyak dunia naik, harga minyak Malaysia masih dijual di tahap tahun 1997-98.

Immediate action is needed to save Penang island from its clogged drains, polluted rivers and flash floods.

In other countries, P Ramasamy's contribution to bringing peace to Aceh would have been lauded. Over here, he was booted out from his university.

Oh, they are hookers! Asked how such impressions of mainland Chinese women had come about, 90 percent of those queried attributed it to the media and the press, while others simply said 'hearsay'.

Wouldn't it be too much to ask these two new kids on the Sarawak BN block to disband and merge, especially when their future look so uncertain?

new I've had another adventure of the spiritual kind, hence my not being in action for the past two weeks. This accounts for the dark circles beneath my eyes, and right after this, I'm hitting the shops to get me some magic to kill the panda-eyes. Hey, you never know who I'll meet.

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad menjelaskan isu AP adalah berhubung dengan Proton dan tidak ada kaitan antara beliau dengan Menteri Perdagangan Antarabangsa dan Industri Datuk Seri Rafidah Aziz.

The government says it has no plans to establish diplomatic ties with Israel despite historic talks between Pakistan and the Jewish state this week aimed at normalising relations.

We are concerned because we do not want to see the flight of refugees into our country, says Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar.

However, Thai Foreign Minister Khantathi Suphamongkhon apparently contradicted the prime minister by saying that the displaced people were innocent civilians.

Telekom Malaysia's mobile arm Celcom was found liable by an arbitration panel in Switzerland for infringing an agreement signed with Deutsche Telekom AG's unit, DeTeAsia.