Archive - 24 January 2006

Top-level intervention is being sought to stop an anticipated increase in water tariff rates and end water privatisation in Selangor.

However he did not say when the IPCMC bill, which has been drafted by an independent commission and is now being reviewed by the Attorney-General's Chambers, would be sent to Parliament for debate.

Suruhanjaya itu akan memantau tingkah laku polis ke arah penambahbaikkan perkhidmatan pasukan tersebut, kata Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

While applauding the comprehensive report, women's groups say it will only be useful if the proposals are acted upon.

The Parti Keadilan Rakyat women's wing proposed four major amendments to the contentious Islamic Family Law (Federal Territory) Amendment Act 2005.

Pengerusi Kelab Umno luar negeri itu, yang turut menjadi sasaran dalam kontroversi wanita bogel ketuk ketampi, berkata beliau tidak tahu menahu mengenai laporan polis terhadap Teresa Kok.

Terhadap keputusan Mahkamah Tinggi tiada bidangkuasa menentukan status agama M Moorthy sebelum kematiannya kerana ia telahpun diputuskan oleh Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah.

M Moorthy's widow is set to prove wrong those who claim that the matter of her husband's religious status is closed.

Seorang lelaki merakam gambar bogel isterinya ketika mandi untuk mengugutnya agar tidak membuat laporan polis terhadap keganasan yang dilakukan terhadap wanita tersebut.

Soalan ini meniti di bibir pelbagai pihak berhubung pembayaran balik RM32.5 juta kepada Tan Sri Halim Saad dan rakan perniagaannya bagi saham premium saham sewaktu Metro Juara mengambil alih Metramac.

Umno Overseas Club Alumni Organisation head Noh Omar, who was caught up in the nude squats saga, denies any knowledge of a police report lodged in relation to the incident.

Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah Seremban membuat keputusan yang adil berhubung status agama Nyonya Tahir kerana penghakimannya dibuat berdasarkan kepada bukti dan bukannya populariti.

The memorandum sent by the nine non-Muslim ministers to our prime minister was a move most welcomed by most of the citizens I have talked to, though they said provided it was not a...

Anybody with a memory of 1988 will remember that the removal of the words "judicial power" to Article 121 castrated the judiciary. On this, the former AG still owes the public an explanation.

Setiausaha Badan Perhubungan Umno Wilayah Persekutuan itu percaya calon Umno mampu rampas kerusi Parlimen DAP di Seputeh, Cheras, Kepong dan Bukit Bintang.

This is easer said than done in Malaysia. For, as Nietzsche once said, "Educate! but first let us educate the educators."

Kerana menyokong tindakan empat pelajar menyaman kerajaan berhubung isu penggunaan bahasa Inggeris dalam matapelajaran Matematik dan Sains.

This was what he had earlier said: "The issue of religious conversion needed to be spelt out clearly in the constitution and other laws to prevent confusion among Malaysians". Why the embarrassing flip-flop?

That's the question hanging on everyone's lips regarding the RM32.5 million reimbursement given to ex-corporate poster boy Halim Saad for the share premium that he paid in Metro Juara's takeover of Metramac.

Even the courts could not settle an ugly catfight between an aging popstar Sharifah Aini and her young rival Siti Nurhaliza Taruddin.

new Anything but politics is back. Collin Nunis takes over Andrew Ong's throne and interviews Dr Goh Chee Leong, director of the Centre for Psychology at HELP University College.

The annoucement came after two companies defaulted on their billion ringgit loans despite given good ratings by local agencies.

State-owned Bank Pembangunan Malaysia launches the largest ever debt securities programme in the country worth about RM7 billion.

Najib Tun Razak says the nation's growing current account surplus would increasingly see the country looking overseas for investment opportunities.

A religious court has ruled that an ethnic Malay woman raised by her Muslim grandmother died a Buddhist in a case hailed as a first in Malaysia.

The deputy prime minister said the policy, which includes a targeted 30 percent of corporate equity be held by Malays or 'bumiputeras', would underpin the new 9MP.

Botox, a powerful neurotoxin, is widely used to cure facial problems but is best known for its cosmetic qualities in paralysing facial muscles and thus giving foreheads a relaxed, wrinkle-free appearance.

The evidence comes from a DNA database of orangutans living in Sabah's Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary by collecting faeces on the ground and hair from tree nests.