Archive - 21 April 2006

Tan Sri Vincent Tan memfailkan saman malu terhadap Star Papyrus Printing sebanyak RM200 juta dan Profesor Jomo Kwame Sundram sebanyak RM250 juta.

Doktor yang mengesahkan kematian tahanan polis Mohd Anuar Sharif, memberitahu mahkamah bahawa tiada kesan lebam atau melecet pada mayatnya.

Its panel rules that the 18-year-old inmate 'most probably' hanged himself but this could have been avoided if prison warders had done their duty.

The doctor, who confirmed Mohd Anuar Sharif's death, tells the court that he did not see any bruises on the deceased.

Among the minister's plans are to amend the UUCA, set up a grading system for institutions of higher learning, enhance the PTPTN and following up on the Zahid Report.

Human rights is not big hit with teachers and students in secondary schools. A research reveals that a majority of them are in the dark about this.

Its's RAE season again and that gets Idlan pondering on the state of our ivory towers and the brains - or lack of - within them.

'Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it'. From what I read in the Malaysian press and the Internet, I am afraid that we are going to prove the great philosopher George Santayana right again.

Readers respond to rising inflation with a call to the government to 'walk the talk' in saving money. The imbroglio over the aborted bridge project also attracts comments together with reports on the Broga incinerator and praying in space.

There is no one-size-fits-all rule when it comes to confronting the autocrats around the world.

The chief minister's decision to allocate the disputed seats of Ngemah and Belaga to PRS is likely to make SPDP supporters unhappy.

Siapa sebenarnya yang kurang nilai dan moral dua anak muda yang sedang bercengkerama memadu kasih atau mereka yang berkot dan bertali leher yang telah melesapkan berbilion-bilion wang negara?

Mahatma Gandhi had it. But over here, it is like digging a desert with a teaspoon in search of dinosaur fossils.

Datuk Rafiah Salim, 59, diumumkan sebagai Naib Canselor baru Universiti Malaya (UM) dan sekaligus mencatat sejarah sebagai wanita pertama memegang jawatan tersebut.

Katanya, jangkaan penjimatan RM4 bilion dalam bentuk subsidi daripada kenaikan harga minyak sebelum ini mungkin tidak akan dapat dicapai sekiranya harga minyak dunia terus meningkat.

When it comes to the death penalty, Amnesty International claims that Malaysia is regressive and secretive.

Myanmar memberitahu mesyuarat Menteri Luar Asean bahawa ia tidak mahu didesak melaksanakan demokrasi, tetapi mahu melakukannya mengikut caranya sendiri.

Perang mulut berlaku apabila Fong Po Kuan (DAP-Batu Gajah) mencelah meminta penjelasan Menteri Perumahan dan Kerajaan Tempatan Datuk Seri Ong Ka Ting mengenai isu bercium di khalayak ramai.

Foreign ministers of the grouping who met in Bali yesterday failed to emerge with a strategy for dealing with its recalcitrant member.

One person was killed today when a fire broke out at the Burmese Embassy in Kuala Lumpur, seriously damaging the building, officials said.

The Malaimel Sri Selva Kaliamman Temple was reduced to rubble after Kuala Lumpur's city hall sent in bulldozers, Hindu groups said today.

Car sales in the country slumped in March and will remain soft in coming months due to rising interest rates and pricing uncertainty, experts said today.

The FTA is an instrument which will be used if it is beneficial to the country, says the second finance minister.

Asean has always been the initiator of change, but we can only do so much. Maybe Burma will change if we leave them alone, a frustrated Syed Hamid Albar said.