Archive - 2 November 2006

The following is an abstract of Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's press conference after the three-hour Umno supreme council meeting today.

Kuala Lumpur and Manila agree that the priority is to ensure the protection and welfare of the deported children, women, and the elderly.

Mesyuarat Majlis Tertinggi (MT) Umno hari ini juga memutuskan beliau kekal sebagai penasihat kepada syarikat dan agensi kerajaan Petronas, Proton dan Lembaga Pembangunan Langkawa (LADA).

updated version Umno supreme council says that it will not strip the former PM of his advisory role to government-linked agencies and companies.

Bumiputera and non-bumiputera companies were equally affected by the 1997 Asian financial crisis, says a Universiti Malaya research.

No more! If you are already elected to the state assembly, why do you have to sit as a councillor? You might as well give a chance to someone else, says Dr Lim Keng Yaik.

The economic growth rate will speed up in the second half of this year thanks to the rollout of major projects under a national development plan.

Ketua Pembangkang, Lim Kit Siang bertanya sama ada Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi bersetuju dengan kenyataan Datuk Seri Nazri Abdul Aziz bahawa ahli Umno 'kebal terhadap undang-undang rasuah.

free The works minister expresses his admiration and support for Abdullah Ahmad Badawi in a poem which he penned in Tamil.

Majlis Jasa Mu Dikenang itu yang dijadualkan diadakan esok, terpaksa dibatalkan selepas masjid pekan Baling menarik balik kebenaran untuk menggunakan dewannya.

Will the prime minister back a remark by one of his ministers that Umno members are immune to the country's corruption laws, asks an opposition leader.

The discs, worth US$89,000 dollars, were detected at Johannesburg International Airport after arriving on a commercial flight.

I refer to the Malaysiakini report 'Police state: Anwar backs Mahathir'. This is another unprecedented evolution of the political scenario in Malaysia where a former primer minister is accused of...

Apakah Pak Lah telah melakukan secukupnya sepanjang tempoh tiga tahun beliau memegang kuasa? Pasukan video kami meninjau pandangan orang ramai mengenainya.

Out on Monday, back on Tuesday but total blackout since Wednesday. A church in Ipoh is not amused by the national utillity's power cuts and plans to sue.

Bantahan itu dijadual diadakan serentak di ibupejabat Sin Chew di Petaling Jaya dan pejabatnya di Pulau Pinang dan Johor Bahru malam esok.

Has Abdullah done enough in the past three years? Our video team took to the streets to find out.

What strategies can Malaysia take to stem the outflow of its human capital to the 'west', and, possibly reverse the trend?

Every paper under media baron Tiong Hiew King is now publishing the same views that seem to support his interests.

What else has the 'system' inherited besides police state and a climate of fear? Some worry, a Gen-M come of age to shape our future for the worse.

An academic is suing a columnist who called him a "drama queen", claiming that in Malaysia's version of English known as "Manglish", the term is a homosexual slur.

Recently parents and consumer groups have been complaining that telcos were abusing the SMS friendship services.

The government must realise that it is incumbent upon itself to do so because it owes the rakyat an explanation and not because it is doing the rakyat a favour, says a reader.

Presiden Gerakan, Datuk Seri Dr Lim Keng Yaik. Parti Gerakan tidak akan melantik mana-mana wakil rakyatnya sebagai anggota Majlis Kerajaan Tempatan lagi mulai tahun depan.

Adun DAP itu menyifatkan pembelian enam pokok plastik berharga RM90,000 oleh Majlis Bandaraya Ipoh (MBI) sebagai satu langkah untuk 'menunjuk-nunjuk' yang akhirnya membazirkan wang pembayar cukai.

Following an uproar over the issue, Perak PAC deputy chairperson Ngeh Koo Ham says he will raise the matter in the coming session of the state assembly later this month.

Timbalan pengerusinya, Datuk Seri Abdul Rashid Abdullah berkata Dr Mahathir, yang kini ahli biasa parti, telah menghina parti apabila mengkritik kepimpinan presiden Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

A Malaysian man sentenced to death in Singapore for murdering an eight-year-old Chinese girl will be hanged on Friday.