Archive - 19 August 2006

A leaflet is making its rounds calling for the death of prominent lawyer Malik Imtiaz Sarwar over his involvement in the Lina Joy apostasy case.

Bagaimanapun, penganjurkan berkata, majlis itu akan diteruskan kerana ia diadakan di kawasan lapang dengan lebih 200 sukarelawan bertugas bagi memastikan keselamatan dan kelicinan lalulintas di situ.

Another police report has been lodged over the Petaling Jaya billboards row, this time urging the police to probe alleged abuse of power and corruption by the Selangor Mentri Besar Dr Mohd Khir Toyo.

But organisers say the event will nevertheless proceed as the designated venue was an open space.

Both islands are located off the coast of Mersing, which is the main port for ferries to the popular beach resort of Pulau Tioman and more than 40 other islands in the area.

The Bar Council - which represents the country's 12,000 lawyers - had earlier urged the government to reopen investigations into events that led to Malaysia's darkest hours in judicial history.

Katanya beliau akan membuat kenyataan penuh mengenai perkara tersebut minggu depan selepas mendapatkan nasihat daripada pihak polis.

Presiden Angkatan Belia Islam Malaysia (Abim), Yusri Mohamad, gerakan fahaman pluralisme yang menganggap semua agama sama, semakin berleluasa di negara ini, termasuk di kalangan umat Islam.

Japan will be the first major industrialised country to issue Islamic bonds, which is aimed at attracting money from oil-rich Muslim countries.

The Malaysian logging giant switches its game plan from defence to offence by releasing a report attacking its critics.

Katanya, sejarah membuktikan perpecahan struktur dalam Umno pada 1987 dan 1999 menyebabkan parti itu kehilangan banyak kerusi dalam pilihanraya umum.

Presiden Abim, Yusri Mohamad berkata, ugutan itu turut dihantar kepada Kumpulan Artikel 11 dan peguam Malik Imtiaz Sarwar.

Malaysia telah gagal disenaraikan dalam Ranking Shanghai Jiao Tong bagi 500 Universiti Terbaik Dunia untuk kali keempat berturut-turut.

Laporan itu mendakwa berlaku amalan rasuah dan penyalahgunaan kuasa berhubung pengagihan bantuan terhadap mangsa banjir di sebuah kampung di Lahad Datu beberapa bulan lalu.

However, Malaysia dismissed the move, saying the negotiations remained suspended over India's unwillingless to cut down a list of mostly agricultural products excluded from tariff reductions.

Japanese officials on Thursday proposed the ambitious trade bloc which would take in half the world's population.

Two-thirds of the signatures in the pledge of support for Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi purportedly from an Umno division in Sabah are false.

Dalam siri terakhir mengenai masalah kekurangan gula, Malaysiakini meninjau kesannya terhadap peniaga gerai makanan dan kuih-muih, termasuk persediaan mereka menghadapi ketibaan bulan Puasa dan Hari Raya. [Lihat klip video]

Beliau menegaskan demikian dalam ucapannya di majlis pelancaran sambutan Bulan Kemerdekaan peringkat kebangsaan yang dibacakan oleh Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim.

For the fourth year in a row, Malaysian universities have failed to make it into the Shanghai Jiao Tong 500 World Universities Ranking.

Orang Melayu Pulau Pinang harus diberi tanda aras mengenai pemilikan hartanah, perniagaan dan industri jika kerajaan negeri tidak dapat menerima cadangan penggiliran jawatan Ketua Menteri (KM).

An opposition leader is questioning whether Rosmah Mansor is being conferred the honour because she is the deputy premier's wife.

special report In this final of a four-part series on the sugar shortage, Malaysiakini finds out how the problem is affecting the street-side food vendors. [Video clips inside]

They have broken the code by giving samples to breast-feeding mothers, advertising without permit and providing incentives to traders.