Archive - 6 February 2006

While he did not confirm if the money had come in, Makna president Farid Ariffin says that every cancer patient is hoping for it to be true.

Media activists debate over the resignation of a Sarawak-based newspaper's editor for reproducing a caricature that Muslims consider as blasphemous.

He joins the society's deputy president who quit last week over 'differences of opinion'. But the strongly-worded resignation letter of the former UN special rapporteur gives a hint of something else.

That's the question being asked after it was reported that Umno Youth was "not likely to support" the setting up of IPCMC.

According to the vice-president some of the new developments which have surfaced recently are no cause for alarm.

The minister's decision to pin the blame on his subordinates draws flak and his effectiveness as a leader is questioned.

The Internal Security Ministry has summoned the newspaper's top editor to Putrajaya for an expected dressing down tomorrow.

Should the government turn its back on the olive branch offered by the Union of Forestry Employees Sarawak, its president warns that the whole tree could come crashing down.

The traditional BN-owned mainstream media has been going too far in its crusade against the people. We thought that in the post-Mahathir era, the walls would fall down and tight leash relaxed.

'The Prime Minister's Department has become the agency blamed for something delayed and cannot be implemented'.

Felled trees oozing with sap and fresh tire tracks prompt the question whether logging activities are still taking place despite government prohibition.

Who are its fans and fanatics? Why is this para-demonic music becoming a paralysis to our youth culture?

The locals are becoming refugees in their own land and if this is left unchecked, warned concerned quarters, it would spell peril for the state.

Singapore says it will cost RM1.15 billion to build its half of the bridge.

new The tonal odyssey of a maestro: "I have taken Indian music as far as possible".

The pact revives a 1980s partnership between Malaysia's state-run carmaker and the Japanese auto giant, and comes after Proton failed to strike a deal with Germany's Volkswagen.

The countries' foreign ministers held talks over the weekend on the sidelines of an annual sports meeting here and both wanted to speed up the talks.