Archive - 6 August 2007

The slow economy and racist statements made by Umno leaders have taken its toll on Abdullah Ahmad Badawi's reputation among Chinese voters.

Apart from providing a big market, Egypt can also serve as a platform for Proton to increase its presence in neighbouring Saudi Arabia and Sudan.

An opposition leader fears that the few chosen companies to benefit from the NCER will eventually drive out the lower-income groups from Penang.

The Perak Raja Muda's inspiring speech on the occasion of the late professor Syed Hussein Alatas inaugural lecture on the need for a better quality of governance...

The controversial seminar concludes without a hitch despite last-minute changes to its venue.

A Tamil daily quotes a PKR leader accusing Sentul police chief K Kumaran of having links with MIC in an article on the death of a local actress.

We'll be able to maintain a low level of inflation despite world oil prices hit a record high last week, says Bank Negara governor.

Campaigners representing ethnic Burmese people appeal to the government to halt a crackdown which targeted political refugees.

In Malaysia, religion is being used to serve the agenda of the powers-that-be, to divide and rule a plural society.

updated version The Zimbabwe's strongman attendance of an international gathering comes as his own country suffers hyper-inflation and chronic food shortages.

The Langkawi diolague was attended by leaders of 16 Asian and African countries including controversial Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe.

free The 50:44 coalition unveils the stories that have fallen through the cracks of history books and mainstream media.

Malaysiakini compares the key news and views in major newspapers. What is today's agenda for the English, Bahasa, Chinese and Tamil papers?

He begs to differ from Pak Lah - the lawyer-politician hits back at the premier's statement on the weekend that Malaysia is neither a secular nor a theocratic state.

Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi takes his predecessor by surprise with the congratulatory message at the opening of the Langkawi International Dialogue.

Volkswagen is expected to conduct a due diligence on certain assets of Proton Holdings Bhd sometime this month.

We are only interested in producing a generation of students skilled in memorising facts and to regurgitate them when the need arises.

For autocratic rulers in the Muslim world, intellectuals are the new global terrorists, bombarding their regimes with intellectualism.

He used the opportunity of addressing a press panel to challenge the media over its role, asking whether they were taken in by lies.