Archive - 3 December 2005

Malaysia for Free Election chairperson Abdul Malek Hussin was interrogated by the police in Pasir Mas today over the circulation of a report on phantom voters in the Pengkalan Pasir electoral roll.

All the couple wants is justice, even if it means starving to death. The loving wife, in her third day on hunger strike, looks to be staring death in her eyes.

The deputy internal security minister also says he accepts the reprimand by Premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi 'with an open heart,' and will be more cautious in making statements.

Asean governments need to seriously review the relevance of the so-called non-interference principle, MP Zaid Ibrahim told the Asean Inter-parliamentary Caucus on Burma yesterday.

The Orang Asli students in Chung Hwa Asahan Chinese primary school need help because they do not get financial support from the government.

The natives living in the remote district of Tongod, Sabah hold a Tinompok gathering to mark the end of tribal conflicts over land disputes half a century ago.

A group of NGOs claims that the Sarawak government sabotaged their efforts to tell the foreign media about their problems.

Malaysia's most prominent 'bomoh' has been advised to juggle his team of cabinet ministers like a football team manager would at 'half time'.

The current thinking is that there will never be an agreed definition of terrorism - as long as the Palestinian issue remains unsettled.

Obviously, the police procedure, as well as the corporate culture of the entire police department, is horrendously out of sync with the changing times.

There is genuine worry in the ruling party's camp in Kelantan that attempts may be made to 'lure' in phantom voters from outside to vote in Pengkalan Pasir.

Genting International, which is among several firms vying to build Singapore's first casino resorts, is offering 800 million new shares at 35 cents each, a prospectus filed with the Monetary Authority of Singapore said.

The police can only justify their standard operating procedures if common practices warranted by circumstances are made law.

Southern Bank Berhad chairperson Syed Mohamad Yusof Syed Nasir has resigned amid a possible merger with Bumiputera-Commerce Holdings Berhad.

Student Kaibon Kuaihiro said he was in a taxi on a Kuala Lumpur street when it was pulled over by two police officers who demanded money from him.