Archive - 4 October 2006

The government today declared Monday, Oct 23 a public holiday for civil servants so that they can enjoy an unbroken five-day break.

Khairy told the BN Youth meeting yesterday that a Lee Kuan Yew-style public apology would amount to a dishonest act.

The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ - the world's largest bank by assets - will break into Islamic finance by tying up with Malaysia's largest banking group.

Loss-making national carrier Malaysia Airlines expressed disappointment at further delays in deliveries of its Airbus A380 super-jumbos but said they will not hurt its recovery plan.

Kata mereka, cadangan pemilikan 30 peratus orang Melayu dalam bidang ekonomi di Pulau Pinang tidak akan membantu keseluruhan orang Melayu yang miskin di negeri itu.

Asian Strategy and Leadership Institute's Centre for Public Policy (CPPS) study on corporate equity ownership arrives at quite a timely moment, on the heels of two recent events.

Penang is again a battle zone over racial parity, as a call to review bumiputera policy ruffles feathers.

Manakala Menteri Besar Terengganu, Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh mengisytiharkan 26 Oktober ini sebagai cuti umum bagi negeri tersebut.

The Sabah immigration department 'has no knowledge' of the death of two children deported to the Philippines last month, but will check on this.

Sehingga jam 11 pagi tadi, 11 kawasan di negara ini mencatat Indeks Pencemaran Udara (IPU) tidak sihat antara 101 hingga 200 berbanding hanya lapan pada jam 5 petang semalam.

Tindakan Dewan Perniagaan Cina Pulau Pinang itu disifatkan 'menongkah arus' kerana Ketua Menteri negeri itu sendiri telah bersetuju dengan langkah segera membantu bumiputera Pulau Pinang.

MCA Youth says it will bring up the issue to the Barisan Nasional Youth council again if its members are dissatisfied with Khairy's explanation.

Polis Malaysia telah menangkap bekas ketua polis Kemboja yang menghadapi tuduhan membunuh di negaranya selepas dia bersembunyi di Singapura dan Malaysia.

Malaysia Airlines today said it will resume flights to Lebanon that were suspended during Israel's military offensive there, due to high demand for the service.

Several areas in Malaysia recorded negative readings today due to the haze, according to the Department of Environment.

Tourism Malaysia head says the haze situation in the country is still not alarming but adds that he will be promoting haze-free destinations to tourists.

Langkah terbaru kerajaan membekukan pengambilan pekerja asing, patut dipertimbangkan semula, kerana ia mempunyai kesan yang besar terhadap ekonomi.

The annual choking haze has been described by an academic as "nothing less than eco-terrorism".

Inkuiri terhadap kejadian di mana polis didakwa menggunakan kekerasan ketika meleraikan perhimpunan membantah kenaikan harga minyak pada 28 Mei lalu, bermula esok.

Ironi daripada peristiwa itu ialah mulai sekarang kedua-dua negara akan lebih prihatin dan berhati-hati terhadap sentimen yang menentukan hubungan mereka.

Menteri Luar Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar berkata, Perdana Menteri Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi telah mengeluarkan kenyataan beliau yang merupakan pendirian kerajaan.

Sir Norman Frank Sisson would have got quite a chuckle out of the fact that it took news of his two-month terminal coma to awaken the Immigration Department.

We are all still waiting for the Umno Youth deputy chief's apology for his racial remarks. There is a saying, 'People in glass houses should not throw stones...'

The human rights commission wants those who witnessed the 'Bloody Sunday' incident on May 28 to come forward.

The latest move by the government to freeze the foreign labour intake has a wide-ranging economic repercussions.

analysis There may be more to Singapore leader Lee Kuan Yew's purported apology and the Malaysian premier's response to it.

The plan is to restrict sales in the Muslim-majority areas and if there is support for it, the restriction will be extended to the non-Muslim areas.

Doctors at a hospital in Selangor say the number of children seeking psychiatric help had tripled in the last four years.

Malaysian police have arrested a fugitive Cambodian ex-police chief who fled murder charges and has been hiding out in Singapore and Malaysia.