KUALA LUMPUR, 27 Nov 2008: The government does not plan to change the current policy and provide political asylum, the Dewan Rakyat was told today. Deputy Home Minister Datuk Chor Chee Heung said Malaysia had never given political asylum to anyone as it was worried that it would be used as an excuse for foreigners […]
Review on court hearing Anwar’s case in Feb 2009
KUALA LUMPUR, 20 Nov 2008: The prosecution’s application for a revision to quash the Sessions Court’s decision to retain Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s sodomy trial in the Sessions Court will be heard on 5 and 6 Feb 2009. High Court judge Datuk Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah fixed the date today after allowing lead counsel Sulaiman […]
National employment plan to deal with unemployment
KUALA LUMPUR, 20 Nov 2008: The National Action Plan for Employment 2008-2010, launched today, will focus on the government’s response to unemployment and under-employment in the nation’s workforce, Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said. The prime minister said the plan sought to respond to the possible increase in unemployment, the result of the global economic […]
Rising HIV infection among housewives
By Ng Boon HooiPETALING JAYA, 18 Nov 2008: Although the spread of HIV in Malaysia has largely been among injecting drug users, there is growing concern that heterosexual transmission is on the rise. Most vulnerable to this are housewives. According to data by the Ministry of Health, the number of new reported HIV cases among housewives was 13 […]
Abdullah to look into Wanita Umno problem
TASHKENT (Uzbekistan), 18 Nov 2008: Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is also Umno president, will meet Wanita Umno leaders upon returning home from his official visit to central Asia to help solve the movement’s problem. He said that initially he had hoped that the Umno women’s wing could solve its own […]
W for water
By Amir MuhammadThe quality of water is not strain’dIt droppeth as the gentle mercy falls from heaven. Amir Muhammad is a writer, publisher and moviemaker who lives in Damansara, which is more of a state of mind than geography. Amir’s Alphabet will have 26 parts but will not be presented in order, as he was never a […]
No real check and balance to ISA use
By Khairil AnharKUALA LUMPUR, 14 Nov 2008: Habeas corpus does not provide adequate check and balance on the abuse of the Internal Security Act (ISA), said a lawyer. This is because most applications for the writ of habeas corpus are unsuccessful, said KL Bar criminal practice committee chairperson Datuk N Sivananthan. According to Sivananthan, “the rejection rate […]
Getting over Dr M
By Lee Hwok AunIN the rhapsody of Barack Obama’s epic election, some of us (Malaysians) may be caught imagining if such a leader could be elected to our highest office. Let’s give idealism its moment. No one is now mocking president-elect Obama for soaring rhetoric. Didn’t he just tap into real yearning for change, willingness to believe in […]
Arming our writers
By Kathy Rowland(© Agata Urbaniak / sxc.hu) ONE of the unexpected outcomes of the recent presidential election campaign in the US has been a sharp rise in gun sales. Demand for firearms and other related paraphernalia went up by 15% in October. There is a fear that president-elect Barack Obama will institute gun controls when he assumes […]
Helping the Malay poor
By Michael Jeyakumar DevarajON 11 Nov 2008, the Prime Minister’s Department answered a question about income distribution that I had submitted before the start of the current parliamentary session. The reply was read by Deputy Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department SK Devamany, who gave the following figures based on a 2007 Statistics Department survey of households: The […]
