Archive - 3 January 2006

Employers who caused a loss of life in an accident at the workplace due to their recklessness or negligence should be punished with a mandatory jail sentence.

Azly Rahman begins his first column of 2006 with a poem about the need to revolt against materials culture and political vultures.

The hearing of a land tussle surrounding a Chinese primary school in Penang will be heard tomorrow.

A angler who thought he had snagged a winner when he hooked a heavy object during a fishing competition was horrified to find a woman's corpse at the end of the line.

A man is believed to have been mauled to death by a bear in a rare attack near Mount Kinabalu in Sabah.

Siti Aishah Abdul Rahman, 31, was just 19 when she married the late Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah, who was born the same year as her grandmother.

I am really touched by the feelings expressed by many quarters of the Malaysian society on the M Moothy's case. Being a Muslim myself, I am ashamed by the way the matter...

It has been a long wait, but the two asylum-seekers were released from remand. For others, the wheels of justice are still turning slowly.

The opposition is not impressed with the state government's explanation on how it awarded the contract for the new state assembly building.

new A deadly combination of drugs is creating a new addiction and may lead to fatalities.

The dispute over M Moorthy's remains has provided yet another example of how non-Muslims are left in a legal limbo in accessing their rights.

Embassy's spokesperson Kathryn Taylor said the mission is reviewing the situation on a daily basis.

The party has two more days to challenge the last month's Pengkalan Pasir by-election results, which it lost with a tissue-thin majority to rival Umno.

It is the genie that refuses to get back into the bottle. The power of the Internet lies in accessibility and free flow of information.

Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar has said he hoped he would see evidence of democratic reform during his upcoming visit to Burma, amid widespread criticism over the slow pace of change there.

The government will soon announce measures to encourage private sector investment to shore up the country's economy.