Archive - 7 May 2007

Musa Aman meets a group of community representatives in his office to offer them the state's help in relocation of the Goddess of the Sea statue project.

The tour company plans to provide 15 direct routes to major cities in China.

DAP chairperson Karpal Singh points out a lesson in logic in a custody case a Hindu man, his Muslim wife and their six children.

Illegal software use in Malaysia decreased marginally to 60 percent in 2005 from 63 percent in 2003.

Students from schools in Perlis, Kedah, Pahang and Terengganu were hospitalised last month with diarrhoea and vomiting after consuming the milk.

The Prime Minister says the world's population of 1.6 billion Muslims are a "captive market" for halal products.

DAP's youth wing objects to the bank's requirement of 50 percent bumiputera equity in legal firms that serve on its panel of lawyers.

As many parts of the world observed World Press Freedom Day last Thursday, it passed without a major blip on Malaysia's calender. [Video Inside]

Graduates who fail to heed warnings to repay loans from the national higher education fund may have their passports confiscated.

What Penang needs is a real leader that is from a party that not only wins elections but also the hearts and minds of the people.

The project proponent stands behind a '100 percent' assurance as it prepares to build the plant in Malacca.

updated version The premier says the RM24 billion project was one of the government's major initiatives to develop Malaysia's northern region.

Students facing expulsion for wanting to learn about the political process? For organizing talks on making political choices?

Accusations of financial irregularities - although denied - have surfaced in the Indian Progressive Front party, with fingers being pointed at president MG Pandithan.

Urban Chinese Malaysian voters cannot be fooled - the ruling coalition has much to do to win their confidence in the polls.

Meanwhile Southeast Asian lawmakers described her continuing detention as very cruel, and called for the suspension of trade and economic ties with Burma.

Is the Sarawak chief minister ready for the outcome of a punitive bill to be tabled this week, wonders a bemused DAP.

The work will cover 4,000 hectares of logged forests as well as replanting 1,000 hectares of degraded forests.

The custody row involving a family and the Selangor religious authorities cannot be treated in isolation and the premier must act to avoid similar recurrence.

In a stinging counter attack, the MIC president claims that the former deputy premier did not lift a finger to help the Indian community. He also offers a psychoanalysis of the PKR leader.