Nurul Nazirin

Universiti Sains Malaysia has instituted disciplinary proceedings against another student - the third since last October.

Seven NGOs have taken their case against water privatisation to Parliament, even as MPs debate related issues.

Eleven Utar students are worried that they would be expelled for non-payment of fees. One who spoke up claimed that PTPTN has not disbursed the student loans.

Policy makers in Indonesia and Malaysia are coming up against irate civil society groups bent on keeping water supply in public sector hands.

AltAid Aceh-Tsunami representatives say Indonesian military personnel are putting themselves ahead of the Acehnese Tsunami victims.

Organisations collecting donations for the tsunami victims assure the public that all their contributions will be channeled to the tsunami victims in Aceh and Sri Lanka.

A proposal to get National Service trainees to clean up beaches struck by the tsunami has prompted questions about their safety and preparedness.

A major consumer group reminds the premier that the people had placed their faith in him and his government and burdening them is not the way to repay this.

An open approach, say NGOs, will help foster ties and guarantee that consumer grouses are addressed.

So many of its services had already gone private. Now the ministry's intention to privatise its medicine supply will only benefit certain companies while Malaysian consumers will suffer.

The message is simple. The next time, Ali Bukhari Amir wants to write articles to the media, he must get the green light from the university.

The communication student's articles on campus politics were published in Harakah as well as in the university's publication.

G Sara Lily wants the judicial inquest into the identity of a decomposed body, whom she is convinced is that of her son, to be expedited so that she can give him a proper burial.

Suaram shortlists four names to win its Human Rights Award 2004, the winner of which will be announced on World Human Rights Day on Dec 10.

They are being held for protection and rehabilitation but the big issue is that they are juveniles and should not be put in adult prisoners.