Archive - 12 May 2006

It looks like the government will not be able to meet the deadline in tabling the IPCMC draft bill in Parliament by May in order to pave the way for its implementation.

Dr Zainal Abidin Abdul Majid signalled the urgency in preventing the NIP from being derailed before 2008, the scheduled completion date for its implementation.

Until and unless Malaysia arms itself with good business ethics, locally-grown companies have no chance at competing globally, BEIM chief Dr Zainal Abidin Abdul Majid.

Mohd Said Yusof will have to explain his actions to the Barisan Nasional leadership, including Prime Mnister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and his deputy.

I had a rude shock when both Najib Razak and Pak Lah endorsed the position taken by Umno backbenchers in not supporting their leader Shahrir Abdul Samad in Parliament recently.

The de facto law minister condemns the Gombak incident where a Vietnamese girl was auctioned off and promises to get to the bottom of it.

The talk of a menacing Iran has been so loudly and frequently repeated that perhaps much of the world is now convinced that the Iranians have successfully produced nuclear weapons.

Malaysians have probably learnt by now that the two most common elements in the world are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.

For 47 years, the ruling Peoples Action Party (PAP) has defined the rules of engagement. The Workers Party's deputy secretary-general is no exception to them.

A government solely interested in controlling its elected representatives on the basis of political partisanship and power play betrays the conscience of the nation, notes a reader.

Otherwise, the public perception that the EC is not independent at all will remain, the senior academic in Sarawak points out.

Many of the temples were built by Indian migrant labourers and used to stand on private land that has since been acquired by local and state authorities.

exclusive The following is the final part of Dr Mahathir Mohamad's Q&A session with a group of Malay professionals in a close-door talk organised by think-tank Ikape.

Jakim says authorities will issue certificates and logos to cosmetic and toiletry products deemed halal, or allowed under Islam.

The poultry industry has lost RM1.5 billion over bird flu fears since the country saw a rash of outbreaks earlier in the year.

Police went to the village market in Gombak where the auction reportedly took place but found no witnesses.