Archive - 27 November 2006

For five years MCA leaders have been silent. Today one broke ranks and urged the government to settle the Damansara school issue.

Four politicians in the Education Ministry will keep their full salary, thanks to support in the House.

A DAP politician has claimed to have uncovered 'a scam' that could see RM600 million of public funds ending up in Umno divisions.

This is not the time for revenge but a time for healing. The prayers are to seek forgiveness for the Muslim group which protested at an Ipoh church.

Thailand's junta leader will leave late today for Kuala Lumpur to hold talks with Malaysia's army chief on the insurgency along their shared border.

As in years past, Umno (at its general assembly) was trying to whip up flagging support again with their usual racially-laced rhetoric. I guess their motto is...

PAS parliamentarian Salahuddin Ayub could not get through an emergency motion to question why a political analyst was granted bail in a murder case.

It is simple common sense for Malaysia and Singapore to invest in each other's future, says the deputy prime minister.

New challenges have been thrown at the Islamic grouping in a UN report that proposes concrete solutions to the Middle East conflict.

Pada 5 November lalu, beliau muncul di majlis Aidilfitri Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim di Bukit Damansara dan Khamis lalu di kediaman Datuk Ibrahim Ali di Taman Melawati.

The nation's economy is bad and the government must soon wake up to compete with the world if we want to succeed.

Tycoon Lau Swee Nguong has hatched up a scheme to break the monopoly of the Chinese print media by fellow Sarawakian Tiong Hiew King.

They were detained on Saturday for allegedly trying to revive the teachings of the once 10,000-strong Al-Arqam movement.

Some believed that the 50-million-ringgit worth of microchips stolen in the robbery in Penang, dubbed as Southeast Asia's "Silicon Valley", would possibly have been shipped out.

The Sarawak BN component party is picking up issues championed by opposition parties to win back lost ground.

free The Nanyang Technological University of Singapore honours one of its old boys from Malaysia - former science, technology and environment minister Law Hieng Ding who graduated there in 1960.

exclusive In the first of a two-part interview, new Perlis Mufti Dr Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin - who at 35 is the country's youngest - looks at what it would take to free up thought processes on Islam in Malaysia.

Would the government tolerate those remarks if they are made during DAP, MCA or MIC general assembly? Even if they did, Umno Youth would take it upon themselves to act.

A human being. A squatter area. A Taoist temple. A hope for religious dialogue. These are demolished within the last 100 days.

exclusive Citing the Quran, the new Perlis mufti argues that Muslims can challenge religious leaders about teachings and practices of Islam.

The ruling party has to humbly admit failures, otherwise it will be soon doomed to irrelevancy.

The merger involving Golden Hope Plantations, Sime Darby and Kumpulan Guthrie will be formally announced today.