Archive - 17 April 2008

updated at 11.05pm The government will set up a judicial appointments commission to help select candidates. However, Pak Lah maintains his ‘no apology’ for the 1988 crisis.

A resolution to the three and a half-year dispute over the Ukay Heights hillside development project is in sight.

Illegal motorcycles racers convicted for a repeat offence may face a host of harsh penalties including up to three strokes of the rotan under proposed legislative amendments.

Malaysia's government in 2006 received a private proposal from Malaysian property and utility firm YTL Corp for a high-speed train link between the two countries.

Foreign Minister Rais Yatim today dismissed claims by the opposition that they have enough defectors from the ruling coalition to seize power.

Sabah MPs should regard it as a ‘duty’ to support Anwar Ibrahim as PM and Pakatan Rakyat as the alternative government, said PKR vice-president Dr Jeffrey Kitingan.

The police are looking into the possibility of compelling PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim to have his statement recorded over his role in the 'Black 14' rally.

It’s not extra-judicial or arbitrary killings, but its how death penalties are executed in a manner seen as non-transparent, says the international human rights organisation.

Next month's ruling on jurisdiction over an islet contested by Singapore and Malaysia will not affect ties between the neighbours.

comment Malaysia’s nascent liberation from the shibboleths of the past may yet end like the Prague spring. The parallels are there. All it needs for the sinister to triumph is for simple citizens to be blase.

Comment This Malaysiakini journalist went to Nepal to observe the country’s elections and was shocked to discover the political maturity in this so-called poorest nation in Asia.

Is the Federal Territories Ministry-organised retreat a positive move or a waste of time? Malaysiakini quizzes KL MPs on this.

The minister said guidelines stipulated that newspapers should not raise sensitive issues that could threaten racial harmony and the country's stability.

An eerie silence enveloped the Makkal Osai office last night. Save for a few staff, the rest had returned home to ponder over their future. [VIDEO INSIDE]

If he doesn’t get it, he will bring up the matter in Parliament, he says. And the reason for the tiff? The alleged 'humiliation' of Karpal's junior lawyer.

Stop politicking - calls from the people to politicians dominate the headlines in the English and Bahasa dailies.

exclusive The MIC president says that the government wants to give, but the man in between does not want to let it trickle to the ground. [VIDEO INSIDE]

When a PM is accused by his top corruption buster in court of having stopped an investigation on the PM’s top aide, and the PM steadfastly refused to take the stand in the same court to refute the accusation, what conclusion can we draw other than the PM is guilty as charged?

Talking about giving Indians their dues, can we start with Samy declaring his personal wealth, including his immediate and extended families.

Borneo's mysterious pygmy elephants may be the last survivors of Javan elephants thought to have become extinct centuries ago.

free 'Many non-Malays have been in this country for four or five generations. They are citizens of this country who should not be seeking ‘gratitude’ for being allowed to live here.'

free ‘It’s time he realise that Indians are no longer goats for him to lead to the slaughterhouse. They will no longer allow him and his cohorts to enrich themselves...’.