Archive - 10 December 2005

A sea of humanity descended upon Kajang today to call for the review of the controversial language switch in teaching Science and Mathematics from mother tongue to English.

The deputy chief minister was blasted by Snap for alleged abuses of the state agency which was set up to benefit the Dayak community through land schemes.

Recent victims of police abuse relate their ordeal at a Bar Council forum where an appeal was also heard for more lawyers to make personal sacrifices in helping detainees.

Japanese Premier Junichiro Koizumi's visit to the Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo has caused the Chinese foreign minister to cancel a meeting with his Japanese counterpart.

Today is World Human Rights Day. A day so sacrosant for each and everyone of us, for it serves as a reminder of the need to keep intact those rights that we have earned by virtue of simply being human.

Someone needs to be the fall guy for a bigger problem which the authorities cannot handle or solve.

Many promises were made, but nothing concrete has happened. It has been a disappointing two years, says a human rights watchdog.

The minister's remark that it was an injustice for the authorities to sit on the application to register the Sarawak-based party has revived hope among its proponents.

The former premier's criticism of Australia's admission to the new East Asian Summit group naturally did not go down well with Canberra.

Thailand says it has refused to sign a trade agreement between South Korea and Asean, insisting that rice be included on the list of goods facing tariff cuts.

The Malaysian conglomerate says it has bought stakes in four power plants in China from subsidiaries of natural gas company El Paso Corp for RM264.15 million.

Rafidah Aziz urges the European Union not to leave any vital concessions to the last minute at next week's trade talks in Hong Kong as it may frustrate delegates.

Russia moves closer to getting full membership in the Asia Summit, signing an economic cooperation accord expected to deepen its ties with Southeast Asia.