Archive - 15 December 2006

The family takes the Selangor Islamic affairs council to court for the grief and trauma they endured during the tussle over Rayappan's remains.

The Suaram Human Rights Award winners owe their fight to a political party and will take the lessons learnt to carry on their struggle.

An opposition leader says instead of compensating the concessionaires, the government should buy the highways for RM4.13 billion.

Two more candidates who took part in the Bar Council election were included as defendants in the case today.

The views espoused by this young mufti are bound to create a stir among his more conservative mufti colleagues from the other states. Read what he has to say about a host of topics relating to Islam.

Watch the video of the joint press conference called by former premier Mahathir and US billionaire philanthropist George Soros.

Ten years ago, many would have considered today's meeting between the two men almost next to impossible. But it appears that time has healed all wounds.

I can't help but feel repugnant by our government's cavalier attitude in using public funds to bail out private projects due to the failure on the part of those who were...

free If they were lined up to face the firing squad, I don't mind to volunteer to pull the trigger. After all, they are a criminal of sort.

Can the state mufti order the closure of businesses? This is what the corporation, which is accused of spreading a deviant teaching, is checking.

The lift-off date was put back by a month due to rescheduling at the International Space Station following a delay in US space shuttle flights.

The lift-off date was put back by a month due to rescheduling at the International Space Station following a delay in US space shuttle flights.

Mohamed Asri joins critics who said that the investigations are often heavy-handed and unwarranted.

Here's how they spin it - the government is sharing the burden with the rakyat and motorists are being 'spared' from having to pay even more in toll charges.

updated version 'I accept Soros is not responsible for the 1997 Asian financial crisis,' says the former premier after his first ever face-to-face meeting with the self-made billionaire.

Too much protection is bad for the people. They become dependent and afraid of changes.

Can the relevant government department tell us what is the annual collection of road tax and how much of it goes into building our roads?

In Malaysia, a joke is like reality and vice versa. Given the increasingly powerful control mechanism, it is becoming harder and harder to decipher which is which.

Twenty Thai Muslims have fled across the border into Malaysia to escape ongoing violence in a separatist-plagued region.

The two countries agreed to set up a joint police committee to tackle cross-border crime.

'It is with great personal sadness that I leave office with the occupation now in its 40th year' Annan said.