Archive - 26 June 2006

Amendments to allow 'young lawyers' to contest Bar Council positions as well as on quorum requirements for the Bar's AGM are presented for the first reading today.

updated version Telling the former PM to be a 'real man' and quit the party, Nazri also declared that he was going to war with Mahathir.

Updating MPs, premier Abdullah Ahmad Badawi explained the government's stance on an issue that has elicited strong opinions.

'I have lost count how many times Nazri kissed Mahathir's hand. To me, what Nazri did was nothing less than apple-polishing,' says a reader.

I think it is a healthy sign that democracy is alive when people are allowed to dissent, and to do so in a peaceful way. More so when they are political titans.

The party is moving to fill the president's post when Dr Lim Keng Yaik steps down early next year.

'I'm sorry... I'm not granting any interviews to anybody right now,' was all he would say when contacted by malaysiakini today.

A human rights and policing expert said the police are right to reject specific provisions of the draft bill for the proposed watchdog body.

The Kuala Lumpur and Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall has given its full support for the IPCMC petition set up by the Bar Council.

exclusive 'According to documents and financial records in the committee's possession, the Embassy of Malaysia made four payments of $300,000 (RM1.1 million) each to AIC,' says a US Senate report.

Let the rakyat insist on the diverse composition of university leadership, to provide a world model in racial harmony.

One group said that while the technology was developed to detect embryos at risk, the technology is now being commercialised for frivolous purposes.

Deputy leader Sng Chee Hua said the rival camp should contest the presidency as the logical way to resolve the leadership tussle.

What this reveals is festering resentment within Umno over access to wealth and power.

A two-year-old boy has become the eleventh child to die in an epidemic of hand, foot and mouth disease in Sarawak.

It will ban the creation of 'designer babies' except for medical reasons as it fears the selection method may disrupt the ratio of males and females in the country.