Archive - 15 October 2005

The Backbenchers' Club chief says there is no need to require such a high local content if the Asean Free Trade Area requires only 40 percent.

After spending five days in remand, a group of seven Ibans alleged to have torched a timber company's logs, are going to sue the company for logging in their communal forest.

Did Rafidah Aziz take her former boss 'for a ride' into giving personal and public endorsement of Naza Kia's Carnival model as a national car, asked the opposition leader.

A proposal to give Orang Asli titles to their land will be submitted to the cabinet next week, says Rural and Regional Development Minister Abdul Aziz Samsuddin.

Its official - the Kepong MRR2 flyover risk total collapse unless remedial works are carried out immediately. Kepong folks are feeling the jitters.

The writer, who wishes not to be named, relates how a humiliating and painful experience at the hands of the police tainted the love he once had for this country.

Having been disciplined for so long in the various educational institutions, our young graduates would have lost their capacity for anger and rage.

The dismissal of the Bar Council's application for leave to challenge a decision denying the public from discussing the impropriety of judges does not go down well with the human rights commission.

Karen Hughes, a close confidante of President George W. Bush and the State Department's top imagemaker, will visit Indonesia and Malaysia next week.

According to their association, these investors are shying from Malaysia because of the crimes against them and the administrative problems they encounter.

Police have detained a Thai man after finding the butchered remains of an endangered Malayan tiger in his home in Kelantan.