KUALA LUMPUR, 21 Nov 2008: Yayasan Salam, together with the Hong Leong Foundation, is pioneering an entrepreneurship programme for single mothers in Chow Kit in a bid to ease their financial burden as well as to educate them to be independent. Yayasan Salam Trustee, Datuk Ahmad A Talib said the programme would enable single mothers […]
Archives for November 2008
Fatwa on tomboys is regressive
By Sisters in IslamFatwa protestors outside KLCC (photos by Lainie Yeoh) DOES Malaysia have serious morality and social problems? Definitely. To name a few: corruption, money politics, draconian laws like the Internal Security Act (ISA), abuse of power, violation of citizen’s rights, environmental problems, failure to reduce the high crime rate, rampant snatch theft, domestic violence, and failure […]
Islamic religous councils to refer dispute to Federal Court
KUALA LUMPUR, 21 Nov 2008: Several state Islamic religous councils want to refer the dispute over the usage of the word “Allah” to the Federal Court for determination on the constitutionality of law. Following this move, eight interveners requested the High Court here to issue a stay of the judicial review proceedings initiated by the […]
Better laws needed to deal with identity theft
By Khairil AnharKUALA LUMPUR, 21 Nov 2008: The existing laws in Malaysia are inadequate to protect internet users from identity theft, computer crime experts said. According to intellectual property lawyer Deepak Pillai, “Malaysia’s legal position does not address online identity theft directly”. He said the long delayed Data Protection Bill is badly needed to strengthen the existing […]
Rafidah comes out swinging against Shahrizat
By Deborah LohKUALA LUMPUR, 21 Nov 2008: Wanita Umno chief Tan Sri Rafidah Aziz has slammed her deputy Datuk Seri Shahrizat Abdul Jalil for breaking her promise not to challenge her for the wing’s top post in the coming party elections. In a handwritten press statement, Rafidah unleashed a torrent of criticism against Shahrizat and her supporters […]
Don’t let elections affect unity, Najib tells Wanita Umno
LIMA, 21 Nov 2008: Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said the Wanita Umno elections should not affect unity within the women’s wing. “Wanita Umno must be professional about it and close ranks as soon as possible after the elections, and this is important,” the deputy Umno president told a news conference here yesterday. […]
Hard to change
By Ng Boon HooiDatuk Seri Chua Soi Lek after winning the post of MCA deputy president MCA deputy president Datuk Seri Dr Chua Soi Lek was at his lowest ebb at the start of 2008 when his affair with a woman friend was videotaped and circulated, ostensibly to bring him down. Despite the scandal of having his private […]
Malaysia isn’t Medina
By Aloysious MoweIN recent weeks, I have come across two articles devoted to the issue of interfaith relations in Malaysia proposing the Charter of Medina as a model for governance. One writer described the charter given by the Prophet Muhammad to the people of Medina as a “brilliant constitution“, because “every member of that Islamic nation was […]
Images of Malaysians
By Jacqueline Ann SurinYee I-Lann (Images courtesy of Galeri Petronas) ALMOST immediately, I was struck by two observations at the Imaging Selfs: Portraits by Soraya Yusof Talismail exhibition, currently on at the Galeri Petronas until 18 Jan 2009. One was the diversity of textures, colours, and looks of each and every one of the 78 prominent Malaysian artists […]
Surviving the Altantuya murder trial
By Elizabeth LooiKUALA LUMPUR, 20 Nov 2008: Former political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda is certain that Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and his wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor never met murdered Mongolian Altantuya Shaariibuu. Abdul Razak, who was acquitted of abetting in Altantuya’s murder by explosives, also said he believed Najib would make a good […]
