Archive - 29 October 2007

free 'All these years of walking in and out of this Dewan, I have come to take for granted. Today, I suddenly realise that I am going to miss Parliament. Very soon, I may not even be allowed to enter this august House.'

The Lingam tape The three-member panel receives a memorandum from a small group of protesters today, criticising the panel for not making real progress.

14th Law Conference The former chief justice had in 2000 awarded a piece of land to Adorna Properties despite that it had been fraudulently gotten from its registered landowner through forgery.

PAC is unhappy that only subordinates were nabbed following the release of the AG's Report on financial mismanagement and calls for the arrest of decision-makers as well.

We are ready to conduct the next general elction by the end of November, EC chairperson Abdul Rashid Abdul Rahman declared today.

It is refreshing to read of Z Ibrahim "telling" the government that it needs to adopt the policy of a level-playing field in its dealing with the local and global business community.

With the deadline to tender an apology expiring today, Jerai MP Badruddin Amiruldin finally apologised to Karpal Singh over a remark about his disability.

14th Law Conference In running a country, the government's view is from the mountain summit - lawyers can only see eye level, says the de facto law minister.

The Lingam tape Will the investigation panel's findings be made public? It's up to the government, said Haidar Mohd Noor, the ex-judge who headed the inquiry.

Twenty years after Operasi Lalang , two former senior staff of The Star reveal what happened when the newspaper's licence was 'suspended indefinitely' in 1987.

Public anger over rising prices and a looming US slowdown could spell trouble for the government as it heads towards elections.

A Japanese chemical tanker with 23 Korean, Filipino and Burmese crew on board has been hijacked off the coast of northern Somalia, according to a piracy watchdog based in KL.

Malaysia's casino magnate Lim Goh Tong was laid to rest today on the jungle hilltop which he turned into a thriving gambling resort

Malaysia Airlines plans to transform itself into a five-star airline with budget carrier fares, under a five-year business transformation plan beginning 2008.

The conglomerate is tipped to win a RM17 billion contract to lay an undersea cable linking peninsular Malaysia with the controversial Bakun plant in Sarawak.

updated version The ECER project will involve more than 200 projects in transportation, infrastructure, tourism, education, manufacturing, the oil and gas industries and agriculture.