Archive - 12 October 2005

It is internationally acknowledged that teaching in one's mother-tongue is the most effective way to help students in learning, said a renowned linguist.

They claim the Universities and University Colleges Act restricts students' right to association besides granting university vice-chancellors excessive powers.

From 'department' to 'office' and to now, merely a 'post'. Following the outcry from civil society, plans are abandoned for a new Parliament body with a civil servant being appointed instead to a single post.

His father claims that his son is the victim of Muslim-terrorist stereotyping by the Russian immigration. But the Malaysian authorities have yet to get to the bottom of the matter.

Bantuan itu diberi baru-baru ini dan digunakan untuk membayar gaji tenaga pengajar, penyelenggaraan bangunan sekolah dan subsidi perbelanjaan makan minum pelajar di asrama.

Timbalan Menteri di Jabatan Perdana Menteri, Datuk M Kayveas berkata Sejumlah 57,194 laporan BPR dibuat sejak tahun 2000, tetapi hanya 5,568 disiasat.

'There is a need to carry out a full review on the credit administration and approvals at Bank Islam and take action against those responsible.'

The prominent human rights lawyer will be Malaysia's sole representative to the Third Dublin Platform for Human Rights Defenders this weekend.

Setiausaha Pemadam, Datuk Kamilia Ibrahim berkata, kerana kelemahan itu, pengedar yakin boleh terlepas daripada hukuman walaupun setelah ditahan dan didakwa.

A total of 57,194 reports have been lodged to the ACA since 2000 but only 5,568 of these investigated.

Parlimen Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh (BN-Kalabakan) berkata, selama ini Felda tidak membantu kontraktor luar, tetapi melaksanakan sendiri projek menerusi kontraktornya.

A wildlife trade watchdog says the release of DNA profiling of the orangutans in Malaysia will not resolve the issue of trafficking of these great apes.

Kongres Dayak Malaysia (MDC) berunding dengan Parti Nasional Sarawak (Snap) untuk guna lambangnya seandainya kongres itu tidak sempat didaftarkan, atau pendaftarannya ditolak.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi should sack Mohd Isa Samad - vice-president of Umno and the federal territories minister - if he means what he says about...

Mereka yang ditahan polis sejak Jumaat lalu kerana disyaki membakar kayu balak milik sebuah syarikat pembalakan di Pantu, Bahagian Sri Aman, Sarawak, akan dihadapkan ke mahkamah esok.

The Chinese education movement again stresses on the need to do away with the policy of teaching Mathematics and Science in English.

Is there hope in seeing the emergence of an educational outlook that teaches peace and prevents the creation of the human as weapon: the suicide bomber?

The seven Ibans, who protested against a timber company for allegedly encroaching into their land, will be produced in court tomorrow to face a charge of 'causing mischief by fire'.

Leaders of the yet-to-be-registered Malaysian Dayak Congress have decided to contest on the Sarawak National Party tickets in the coming state elections.

Jen Chidchai Vanasatidya dilaporkan akan melawat tempatan perlindungan penduduk Islam yang lari dari selatan Thai itu pada 28 Oktober depan.

The government had ignored calls to help the Indian community achieve an equity target of three percent by 2010.

Menjawab pertanyaan Bursa Malaysia semalam, kedua-dua syarikat itu dalam kenyataan berasingan menjelaskan mereka tidak berbincang mengenai Proton akan memiliki kepentingan dalam EON.

Mahkamah Persekutuan tolak dengan kos permohonan Majlis Peguam terhadap keputusan Mahkamah Rayuan yang menghalangnya mengadakan satu mesyuarat agung luar biasa (EGM) dan mesyuarat agung.

Belum pun sempat menjadi kenyataan, Jabatan Parlimen yang dicadangkan penubuhannya tidak lama lagi, diturunkan tarafnya kepada sebuah pejabat.

Dong Jiao Zong (DJZ) berkata, kerajaan patut tambah masa bagi pelajaran Bahasa Inggeris tetapi membenarkan sekolah rendah guna bahasa ibunda untuk mengajar kedua-dua subjek itu.

The Aedes mosquito which carries the dengue virus has evolved into an extremely hardy insect, with its eggs surviving for up to six months without water.