Archive - 13 January 2006

The ongoing New Straits Times Press group restructuring is sending shockwaves throughout the media industry with mass layoffs on the cards.

Loyal listeners of the popular station are disappointed that it won't be reappearing on the air contrary to pledges by its new owners that it would.

The three-year-old suffered a fractured skull and swelling of the brain after falling through an untended hole along the stairwell in his low-cost flat.

The deputy finance minister allays rumours that government funds are running dry leading it to spend less on the Ninth Malaysian Plan.

The media must learn from the Elie episode and refrain from oversensationalising a story without verifying the facts, notes Fomca.

I am a young Malaysian woman currently studying for my undergraduate degree in the US. I have come down for the holidays to celebrate Christmas and New Year's with family and...

A coalition of more than 50 Hindu groups wants the prime minister to take concrete action to resolve the religious conversion issue.

There are no reports of any of the 26,000 Malaysian pilgrims being involved in the incident which also left 289 people injured.

Residents have rejected the proposed flyover linking USJ 3 and Batu 3 Shah Alam. They say this will aggravate traffic congestion.

The US heartened to see her election as Germany's Chancellor. But things soon turned sour when she got down to the nitty-gritty.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi says that at the moment, he and the Indonesian president failed to reach acceptable solutions on the oil issue.

Israel's Ariel Sharon's exit bodes ill for the Middle East, for world peace and for the world economy.

updated version If heads are to roll for the nude squat incident, press freedom advocates say it's Noh Omar who should be guillotined.

Malaysia's economy will be boosted by new guidelines on non-performing loans which could allow banks to clear up to one third of the bad debt clogging their books.

Its shares hit an intra-day low of RM5.10, or a drop of a whopping 20 percent, but it regained some lost ground in the afternoon to reach RM5.65.