Archive - 17 September 2005

Setiausaha Agung Umno Datuk Seri Mohd Radzi Sheikh Ahmad berkata Panel Rayuan ambil masa agak lama bagi memastikan ia diteliti secara terperinci dan menyeluruh.

Ketua Pengarah Kastam, Tan Sri Abdul Halil Abdul Mutalib mendakwa tuduhan itu dibuat oleh "orang dalam" Jabatan Kastam yang tidak sehaluan dengannya.

Some jokingly call it the 'Mission Impossible Church' or 'On-off Church', but the Church of Divine Mercy Shah Alam is serious about getting the facts straight.

The higher education minister claims to be in the dark regarding complaints over recent incidents in several public universities and brushes off malaysiakini's questions related to the upcoming campus elections.

Seven years on, displaced Sarawakian natives are still suffering due to the Bakun dam project. Sahabat Alam Malaysia wants an end to the neglect.

The suspended Umno vice-president's appeal against disciplinary action for political graft may be heard next month.

An extraordinary general meeting of the PBB hears that several party divisions and branches were improperly registered, causing the party assembly to be postponed.

Dr Mohd Shafie Salleh says the 'pledge of loyalty' will remain in force despite the controversial termination of service involving several vocal academics.

Money and power are carnivorous; they tend to consume the soul of those who acquire them in large measures. The more the rich and powerful have them, the more they need a bigger fix of face.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim mengadakan pertemuan dengan pemimpin dunia di New York bagi membincang isu reformasi dalam Persatuan Bangsa-Bangsa Bersatu (PBB).

A senior party leader dismisses objections saying the popular artiste will complement the party's aims and also serve to enhance its image.

Transport Minister Chan Kong Choy says the request to liberalise air travel between the two countries will be made at his next meeting with Australian counterpart Warren Truss.

The government releases a suicide reporting guidelines for the media as part of a national suicide prevention initiative. The gist of it all: "Don't glamourise suicides".

The Malaysian property and palm oil plantation firm buys a 30 percent stake in PSC-Naval Dockyard, a ship-builder involved in a troubled naval deal, says a report.

The Philippine government and Muslim separatist rebels said they had made an important breakthrough in their latest round of peace talks held in Malaysia.

Labourer Mardani Hussin from Aceh had entered Malaysia without a valid permit in April 2002 and committed the offence six months later.