Archive - 20 September 2007

free A free clinic for female refugees proved a huge hit at the weekend when more than 300 women queued up to see doctors at a community centre in Kuala Lumpur.

The government of Bangladesh has sent a high level delegation to probe problems faced by their nationals in Malaysia.

The Lingam tape The 'Lingam tape' scandal has led social reform movement Aliran to call for a judicial review of a long list of cases.

Suhakam ends a two-day fact-finding mission on the Kuala Terengganu riot, after interviewing dozens of police personnel and opposition members.

Syed Shahir Syed Mohamud criticizes the formation of a religion-based labour organisation as divisive and predicts that it will fumble.

The Malacca state government has extended the deadline to Oct 4 and the deputy premier says the farmers must comply.

The lifting of a 23-year ban could result in these monkeys being slaughtered for food or suffering horribly in experiments.

Police say the body of a young girl found stuffed in a sports bag has been identified through DNA test as belonging to eight-year-old Nurin Jazlin Jazimin.

The Lingam tape In the wake of the 'Lingam tape' scandal, PKR Youth calls on all political youth groups to come together in a mission to cleanse the judiciary. [VIDEO INSIDE]

special report In the third and final part of this series, companies given the exclusive right to supply lighting for government agencies deny using political connections to secure the deal.

It was sometime in May last year during a launch of a seminar that the present Chief Justice, Ahmad Fairuz Sheikh Abdul Halim, admitted receiving...

The Lingam tape This comes a day after the revelation of an explosive video showing a senior lawyer in a phone conversation with the chief justice on fixing the appointment of senior judges.

The Department of Islamic Development issues guidelines on how to pray, wash and even be buried in space.

All English and Chinese dailies played down the news on the revelation of an explosive tape showing a senior lawyer allegedly discussing with the CJ on the appointment of judges.

Batu Burok is a smell of something fisky pervading the mass media. What has stale 'fisk' got to do with credibility vs credulity over the Terengganu 'riot'?

Student activist Yee Yang Yang disputes the allegations levelled against him by UPM vice-chancellor Nik Mustapha R Abdullah.

Political tension is rising as the demand by opposition parties and civil society groups for a clean and fair election is increasingly being met with violence.