Archive - 22 September 2006

Seorang bayi yang baru dilahirkan terpaksa tinggal dalam tahanan selama dua minggu apabila ibunya, seorang pelarian kaum Chin Burma ditahan ketika cuba mendapatkan sijil kelahiran untuk bayinya itu.

The Chinese education movement sees red over the announcement that no more new vernacular schools will be built under the Ninth Malaysia Plan.

The judge has deferred her decision on an application to strike out the election petition to annul the election of Deputy Chief Minister Alfred Jabu in the Layar state constituency.

The former premier leaves his audience in stitches when he reveals how he decided on the Vision 2020.

The former premier urges local universities to focus on specialised areas and stick to 'what they know best'.

The Singapore statesman claimed Malaysia wanted Singapore 'to be like their Chinese - compliant'. Displeased with the innuendo, Gerakan says things are better here than across the Causeway.

Jadi para penonton, tunggulah pilihan yang bakal ditawarkan menerusi persaingan hebat antara dua gergasi media Media Prima dan Astro.

Thai AirAsia, a subsidiary of Malaysia-based budget carrier AirAsia, will open direct flights between Hanoi and Kuala Lumpur next month.

To get an early release, detainees are told to advise their wives to refrain from participating in anti-ISA campaigns.

Born on Aug 18, the boy spent two weeks of his first month behind bars at the Semenyih immigration detention camp.

Katanya, pertukaran kepada nama Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) bukan atas kehendaknya, tetapi atas permintaan tenaga pengajarnya, terutama Naib Canselor yang mahu mempelbagaikan jurusan pengajiannya.

As the competition heats up between Media Prima and Astro, consumers are definitely going to be spoilt for choice.

Umno's recent brickbats against both Dr Koh Tsu Koon and Ong Tee Keat have shaken the foundation of the Barisan Nasional political...

China has been successfully exerting economical, political and social influence not just in Malaysia but everywhere else in the world too.

Ketua Penerangan Umno, Tan Sri Muhammad Muhd Taib menyifatkan tuduhan PAS terhadap Umno sebagai satu hipokrasi kerana parti itulah yang banyak "melanyak dan memalukan" Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.

Why invitations to frank and sincere dialogue, with great mutual respect, are always met by reluctance, suspicion and summary rejection?

Polis tidak bersetuju kerana tidak berpuas hati dengan rekod penganjuran Ekspedisi Merdeka Putera Bermotor Kuala Lumpur-Teluk Batik 2006 yang disertai 8,000 mat rempit pada 9 dan 10 September lalu.

Malaysia should ratify the Optional Protocol to the Cedaw treaty which will allow gender discrimination cases to be brought to the United Nations.

Kecuali Universiti Islam Antarabangsa (UIA), hampir keseluruhan kerusi Majlis Perwakilan Pelajar (MPP) di 16 lagi universiti awam dimenangi Kumpulan Aspirasi yang pro-kerajaan.

The Penang chief minister should not be blamed for the failure of the Malay equity agenda in the state. After all, his duty is only to ensure economic development and growth in terms of wealth creation and not really the distribution agenda.

Malaysia's first astronaut and his back-up have said neither will marry a partner until after the country's first space mission has been completed in 2008.

The opposition party was the one that attacked and ridiculed the former premier in the past, says the Umno info chief.

Of the 17 public universities, only Universiti Islam Antarabangsa bucked the pro-government trend in the campus polls held yesterday.

Asked if Muslim anger over the comments seen as linking Islam with violence was justified, Mahathir said: "Not to the point of burning embassies and such."

This is Proton's second attempt to form a strategic alliance with a European car maker since talks with Germany's Volkswagen AG failed earlier this year over the issue of overall control.

Proton says it will not sell its British-based sports car outfit Group Lotus, which is experiencing falling sales in the United States.