Roshan Jason

Two members of the Selangor Public Accounts Committee disagree over the last-minute cancellation of a study tour to Cairo.

The protesters - from Christian ethnic minority group Chin - knelt down, bowed their heads and remained in prayer for a few minutes before being dragged onto police trucks for failing to end a peaceful protest.

Those who suffered losses must be compensated as soon as possible, says the opposition party. It also tells the utility giant not to be bogged down by claims procedures.

Unhelpful church ushers, constantly ringing cell phones and boisterous kids are some of the things experienced by this writer while attending Christmas mass.

TNB blames power tripping at a substation in Selangor's Kapar for the four-hour blackout which threw traffic in major cities into chaos and disrupting commuter train services.

Three volunteers of a global NGO were held for several hours in a fishing village where they had been providing post-tsunami services.

The multi-partisan parliamentary caucus has yet to undertake its inaugural task of sending a fact-finding mission to the prison to probe a recent riot there.

Having been forced to live in darkness for more than a month, is it any wonder that they have also lost hope in the politicians?

They claim that land owner Penang Development Corporation (PDC) had cut the supply in a bid to evict them. But the corporation denies this and pins the blame on a faulty generator.

Since assuming the post of officer-in-charge of the Brickfields police headquarters, Badrol Hisham Osman tells the court that he has never lost any suspects, except for the 24-year-old youth.

More than 300 residents are forced to use oil lamps while most of the women and children seek refuge at a nearby temple after electricity supply was cut by the land owner, a state government-owned corporation.

While the world rushes to aid tsunami victims in Aceh, Sri Lanka and other affected countries, the military-run Burmese nation seems to be overlooked.

A check with embassies and high commissions in Kuala Lumpur reveals that no reports of death or injury to foreigners have been made as a result of the tsunami. However, a few have been reported missing.

The loan money the students have been waiting for arrived at last, albeit almost a month after the new semester had started.

Some financial aid has reached residents of 'Kampung Keling', which was among villages in Penang that were severely damaged by last Sunday's tsunami.

The recent tsunami victims in one of Tanjung Tokong's effected villages have claimed that their plight has been worsened by the "authorities' neglect and leaders' swindling".

Just days after the country's worst natural disaster, questions have arisen as to why there were no warning alerts sounded on Malaysian beaches as the catastrophe only hit Malaysia four hours after the quake in Sumatra caused it.

A social activist, who met the health minister over the issue, claims that the latter had told him that these dispensaries will not be privatised.

The inquest was taken to the UMMC mortuary today where missing police detainee G Francis Udayappan's mother again identified a highly decomposed body as that of her son based on recognisable peculiarities.

A forensic pathologist said the cause of death could not be established for 'John Doe', a decomposed body that is the subject of a judicial inquest.

Indonesian national Ayu Lestari Abdullah tells the court how she saw Francis G Udayappan making his escape and being swept away by the river.

A research centre director latches on to an earlier comment by the UNHCR chief in Kuala Lumpur that Filipino refugees staying in Sabah for so long be given permanent rights to stay.

The deputy internal security minister however claims he never made any such promise and that his words were 'twisted'.

The newly formed parliamentary caucus is awaiting the green light to dispatch a fact-finding team to investigate the alleged human rights violations at the Kamunting and Simpang Renggam detention centres.