KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Oct 2008: The Halal Industry Development Corporation (HDC) aims to penetrate deeper into international markets, especially the US, Europe and Japan. Managing director and chief executive officer Datuk Seri Jamil Bidin said HDC had been aggressively focusing on capturing international markets since it assumed the responsibility for halal certification from the Islamic […]
Archives for October 2008
“Fund criminal pro bono cases”
KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Oct 2008: Malaysian Bar Council president Datuk Ambiga Sreenevasan wants the government to help fund criminal pro bono cases because there are too many for the Bar Council’s legal aid centres to handle. Ambiga said since last year, the Bar Council had around 18,000 mostly criminal cases for its lawyers to handle […]
Ahmad Shabery supports open debate
KAPIT, 28 Oct 2008: Information Minister Datuk Ahmad Shabery Cheek is all for having open debates to elect party leaders, as suggested by several Umno leaders. He said the approach would enable party members to evaluate a candidate’s personality, intelligence, strength and most importantly, credibility. “It may not be in totality but people are anxious […]
Two Umno leaders reappointed as senators
KUALA LUMPUR, 28 Oct 2008: Two Umno leaders have been reappointed as senators for another term. Datin Paduka Nor Hayati Onn who is an executive council member of the Wanita movement, and Kepong division chief Datuk Rizuan Abd Hamid took their oath of office before Dewan Negara president Tan Sri Dr Abdul Hamid Pawanteh today. […]
Third quarter electoral roll on display
PUTRAJAYA, 28 Oct 2008: The supplementary electoral roll for the third quarter of 2008 will go on display from today until 3 Nov at 985 premises nationwide. Election Commisssion (EC) public relations officer Sabri Said said the premises are state EC offices, computerised post offices, government complexes, district and land offices, district and municipal councils, […]
Power-sharing models for the BN
By Deborah LohAS the Barisan Nasional (BN) struggles to reinvent itself in the current political climate, three ideas have been raised to remake it into a single multiracial entity. The coalition knows it has to respond to public perception that Umno is dominant over the other component parties. If it doesn’t, it risks losing more of the […]
Making people disappear
By Yasmin Masidi(© Piotr Kozikowski/Dreamstime) WHEN I was media officer at a local feminist organisation, the Malaysian police claimed in their press statements to have solved 80% of crimes against women in 2005. That these figures were greeted with near-universal derision by activists working on women’s human rights would not, I wager, be a surprise to many. […]
Kau petik gitar, nyanyikan lagu”¦
Oleh Fared Ayam dan Zahiril Adzim(© Jesse Therrien/sxc.hu) MULANYA ada Puteri Gunung Ledang: the Musical (PGL). Kemudian muncullah Putra: the Musical, Cheng Lock: the Musical, P Ramlee: the Musical, muzikal Ismail: the Last Days, Impak Maksima: the Musical, muzikal itu dan muzikal ini. Letih tangan kami menaip kalau nak ditaipkan semua muzikal yang pernah dipentaskan di sana sini, termasuklah muzikal […]
Siapa kuat?
Oleh Suraya Yaacob(© Revati Upadhya/sxc.hu) SELEPAS hampir sebulan menyambut Aidilfitri, kita sama-sama akan menyambut perayaan Deepavali. Kalau dilihat, ada persamaan antara kedua-dua sambutan yang meraikan “kemenangan”. Kemenangan “melawan” nafsu sepanjang berpuasa dan kemenangan yang baik atas yang jahat. Kita sepatutnya mengambil kesempatan menterjemahkan rasa muhibah antara kita dengan ziarah-menziarahi. Setiap tahun saya akan menyambut Deepavali bersama pengundi […]
Deepavali reflections
By Sim Kwang YangEVERY year, as Deepavali approaches, I always remember my good friend, the great P Patto. For those five years when we were both serving Members of Parliament, the late Patto was my roommate at the DAP headquarters in Petaling Jaya. We slept in those fold-up canvas camp beds that must be obsolete now. (His snoring, […]
