Yoon Szu-Mae

100 reformasi activists showed up at an agricultural park in Shah Alam on Saturday expecting to eat, meet old comrades and assess the state of the reform movement, but police and park management interference 'spoil' the day for them.

A telephone company specialising in discount call services has confirmed that a preferential share offer was made as a "measure of goodwill" to journalists and editors, among others.

Lord Eric Avebury said this during the first of a two-day conference exploring avenues for sustainable peace in the Indonesian province Aceh. The discussion, held at a Kuala Lumpur hotel, also received a visit from the police.

Keadilan veep Sivarasa Rasiah, who lodged the report, also reveals documents which allegedly show questionable payments. Among them, are the payments for golf clubs and exotic fruits.

Malaysian men are joining in a global pledge not to commit or condone violence against women, and to speak out against the crime.

Last year, the cabinet announced that indirect advertisement of cigarette brands will be eliminated from our television screens. But as tobacco companies continue to find loopholes around the directive, anti-tobacco groups now charge that the government isn't serious about upholding its promises.

While tobacco companies publicly say children should not smoke, commercial sustainability requires that they attract young smokers, and routinely track the 'young adult smokers' market - an industry euphemism for low-age or underage smokers.

A study shows how the government had aided tobacco companies to exploit policy loopholes earning the nation the reputation of being the 'world's capital for indirect tobacco advertising'.

Fire and Rescue Services Department senior officer and recent whistleblower Mohd Ali Tambi Chik began his enforced retirement three days ago. Breaking his silence, he comments on the outcome of anti-corruption investigations into his complaints.

While the government generally failed the test of seriousness in eliminating cigarette advertising up to 2002, it finally made a quantum leap this year. This in the second of a four-part report based on a recent study.

Industry documents now in the public domain have revealed the extent of a powerful lobby to prevent Malaysia from imposing early controls over tobacco use, in tandem with global moves from the 1980s. This is the first of a four-part report based on a recent study on cigarette advertising.

The DAP explains that its decision to recall all 16 party representatives, occupying 19 posts in the Kelantan and Terengganu state governments, was necessary to give meaning and make clear their stand against the formation of an Islamic state.

Following concerns raised that eight Acehnese held at the Langkap detention centre were being forced to sign deportation papers against their will, the government finally decides to hold on the planned deportation of the group.

DAP presents a document to the education ministry expressing concern that some 700 pupils in the Puchong area will be denied their mother tongue education next year.

After 22 years, the country sees a change in leadership and malaysiakini readers are asking the new premier to change a few things, ranging from clean water to electoral transparency.

As Abdullah Ahmad Badawi greeted his first day as prime minister yesterday, two opposition leaders were arrested outside a Kuala Lumpur shopping mall for handing out a published letter written by former deputy premier Anwar Ibrahim.

Two years down the road, infighting within NUBE shows no sign of ending despite a long-awaited court ruling today on the legitimacy of union leadership.

Keadilan Youth chief Mohd Ezam Mohd Nor says the courts' delaying tactics in hearing Anwar Ibrahim's appeals is done on purpose to deny the man justice.

In response to the Australian report which suggested that he was linked to terrorist outfits, Anwar Ibrahim says legal action is underway against those who slandered him.

PSM leaders working with residents of Kampung Rimba Jaya in Klang question the move by the Shah Alam City Council to remove them from the land belonging to a private company.

The gutsy labour activist may have been judged guilty, but in the court of public opinion, it seems that she has won her case.

Sri Suryani, 20, came to Malaysia with the hope of securing a better future. However, she claims to have endured sexual abuse for two years at the hands of her employer, who is a prominent businessman.

The pace of migration is set to hasten and this is a reality which governments in this region must face. Ignoring it, could lead to peril, warns an international organisation.

A group of Filipino organisations today revealed the damning results of a fact-finding mission to the port towns of Jolo and Tawi-Tawi in the Philippines, to document testimonials from illegal immigrants ejected from Sabah last year.