Archive - 5 September 2005

Mahkamah diberitahu, isteri bekas Menteri Pembangunan Luar Bandar Datuk Annuar Musa, menjadi ahli Lembaga Pengarah syarikat pembinaan terbabit dalam projek rekreasi di Tasik Puteri, Bukit Besi Terengganu.

Menteri itu berkata, apabila Perdana Menteri bercakap mengenai pembangunan sumber manusia, tumpuan sepatutnya diberikan kepada belia, tetapi agensi seperti Kementerian Kewangan dan Unit Perancang Ekonomi, seolah-olah tidak memahaminya.

The message comes from a senior parliamentarian following a challenge by the Umno Youth deputy chief that the late Tunku's role and contribution be debated.

Mereka membantah tindakan suruhanjaya itu menjemput bekas Perdana Menteri itu yang menurut mereka banyak melakukan pelanggaran hak asasi manusia berucap di Persidangan Hak Asasi Manusia dan Globalisasi.

Terengganu police have called up the PAS president to record his statement in relation to purportedly illegal rallies held two weeks ago.

Berhubung dakwaan lamanweb DAP kononya pemimpin Parti Komunis Malaya (PKM) Chin Peng, menyumbangkan kepada kemerdekaan negara manakala nasionalis Umno bersekongkol dengan penjajah British.

Kraisak Choonhavan said this is necessary to establish the reasons why 131 Thai Muslims fled their homes last week to seek refuge in Malaysia.

Setiapkali isu kontrak sosial dibangkit, ia disesuaikan dengan agenda parti politik terbabit, menyebabkan skopnya hanya terhad kepada isu hak keistimewaan semata-mata.

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Thirty groups are up in arms over the human rights commission's move to invite the former premier - accused of being a serious human rights abuser - to a Suhakam event.

Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi berkata, kerajaan akan mengambil pendekatan tertentu bagi meringankan beban yang terpaksa ditanggung mereka akibat lonjakan harga minyak di pasaran dunia.

They agree that the race factor has coloured the issue, although the agreement is protected by the Federal Constitution.

Do you expect us to talk peace with the Thai government when we are being killed and terrorised, asks a villager whose uncle was shot dead by the soldiers.

Kementerian Luar Thailand berkata, adalah amat penting bagi para pegawai kanan mengelak menyuara pendapat yang boleh menjejaskan kerjasama antara kedua belah pihak.

A dispute over plans for the bridge has re-introduced a sour note into a relationship that has improved markedly in the past two years since the retirement of combative Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Our higher institutions of learning are becoming more like institutions of listening with political appointees to run them and the implementation of the UUCA and 'Akujanji' pledges.

Sara, as he was known, brought leadership to Penang at a time when looting and lawlessness were the order of the day.

Any totalitarian state will be fearful of student activism. Structures of domination are imposed, distractions designed, student movements monitored, and issues versus non-issues created.

Pemimpin dan penduduk kampung di Kelantan yang menjadi destinasi 131 pelarian Islam dari selatan Thai, percaya lebih ramai lagi akan menyeberangi sempadan untuk mencari perlindungan di sini.

Rakyat Malaysia rata-rata berasa tidak berpuas hati dengan sikap acuh tak acuh kerajaan Indonesia dalam menangani masalah jerebu ini.

Local leaders and villagers in Kelantan, where some 131 Thais are being held by authorities after seeking safe haven last week, say they believe many more have sought refuge here.

Malaysia's media fraternity - already led by the politically-connected - is seeing ownership consolidate even further.

In the newest reality show Mencari Cinta, the contestants are awakened at the crack of dawn to see if they have performed their morning prayers, testing them by asking them the direction of Mecca.

Figures from Tourism Malaysia show that only 16,000 Chinese tourist arrivals were recorded in June compared to 48,000 in the same month the previous year.

The Thai foreign ministry also said senior officials from both sides should avoid expressing views that can undermine peace works.