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'This only shows how low BN can go. It cannot differentiate between party politics and the government.' 'Pakatan-bashing at seminar for teachers' Bender: I say let them continue with such...

'If 'now' means six months to a year, then the word does not mean 'now'. When words and actions do not match, we cannot trust the speaker.' Reforms, then polls or face backlash, warns Ber...

The presence of seven glamorous looking young women at the MCA Youth annual general meeting (AGM) on Saturday turned heads of delegates and made the front page of several newspapers the n...

'Since Nazri did not say the custom declaration form is wrong, I suppose it is reasonable to assume the form, in its entirety, is correct.' Customs confirms existence of RM24mil ring Loui...

A total of seven animal cruelty cases at animal care centre, Petnode Online Pet Store, last September have been referred to the Public Prosecutor (PP). Deputy Agriculture and Agro-Based I...

BARCELONA: Germany’s two-time defending Formula One world champion Sebastian Vettel (pic) posted the fastest time in testing here on Tuesday.

MARANA (Arizona): For US Open champion Rory McIlroy, the WGC-Accenture Match Play Championship can offer the players beauty and something of the beast because of the sheer lottery of its ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysian track cyclist Fatehah Mustapa can look forward to starting a business career once her cycling days are over.

SEPANG: The opening 20.3km individual time trial will be crucial for contenders of the general classification in the Tour of Langkawi (LTdL), which starts tomorrow.

PETALING JAYA: National men’s doubles coach Tan Kim Her is set to mix and match his doubles charges once again – at least until the All-England (March 6-11) ends.

A scheme of trafficking Ugandan women to Asia has attracted the attention of activists who say Uganda's government is not doing enough to protect vulnerable girls from sexual exploit...

The Malaysian government has banned writer Peter Mayle's book 'Where did I come from?' and has ordered shops to stop selling it.

Malaysia has banned the sale of a children's sex education book written by a British author 28 years ago, saying its contents "could threaten moral ...

The Danga Bay waterfront will face Singapore and developers hope to encourage large multinationals to relocate there, along with home-buyers and visitors. The whole development was given ...

at the Kallang Ground in Singapore. A poor finish meant Malaysia ended with 194. Guernsey were on track in their chase at 109 for 3, but five wickets fell in ten overs, three to medium-pa...

(Malaysian Insider) - Opponents of Australian rare earths miner Lynas Corp’s refinery in Malaysia have asked a court to delay start-up of its A$200 million (RM640 million) plant and revi...

(Berita Harian) - Penyenaraian Felda Global Ventures Holdings Bhd (FGVH) di Bursa Malaysia akan diteruskan tanpa pembabitan Koperasi Permodalan FELDA Malaysia Bhd (KPF) dengan jaminan un...

(Harakah Daily) - Kerajaan Kelantan hari ini bersetuju melantik satu panel guaman bagi memberi nasihat kepada kerajaan negeri untuk mengambil balik ladang seluas 55,500 ekar tanah Felda ...

(Harakah Daily) - Attention has shifted to several characters in the power-play which gave birth to Barisan Nasional's political coup in Perak in 2009, namely UMNO lawyer Hafarizam Harun...

(Harakah Daily) - Gua Musang member of parliament Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah (left) described the government’s plan to list Felda Global Ventures Holding at Bursa Malaysia as dangerous and ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Twenty cases on bus ticket touts reported since September had been brought to court and fines of between RM3,000 and RM8,000 were imposed to those convicted of the offence.

LONDON: James Murdoch rejected allegations Thursday that he was a “mafia boss” and told British lawmakers he had not misled them about the extent of his knowledge of phone-hac...

KUALA LUMPUR: A Bangladeshi worker was killed after he was hit by a car while crossing the road at KM428.4 of the North-South Expressway today.

KUALA LUMPUR: The National Anti-Dadah Agency (AADK)'s fight against the dadah menace through treatment and rehabilitation programmes received bouquets from international non-governmental ...

SHAH ALAM: State opposition leader Datuk Mohamad Satim Diman today questioned the salary and bonus payment to the Selangor State Development Corporation (PKNS) general manager.

JELI, 2 Ogos  (Bernama) -- A total 102 students in the Jeli parliamentaryconstituency received RM800 each as preliminary financial assistance fromFederal government''s compassionate fund ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Stocks which would see trading interest on Wednesday, Aug 3, despite the cautious market outlook include Malaysia Building Society Bhd (MBSB), Catcha Media Bhd, Mah Sing Gro...

(CORRECTING ASKING IN HEADING)KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 (Bernama) -- PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul AzizNik Mat was today challenged to openly deny that he was involved in a conspiracyto ...

KUALA TERENGGANU, Aug 2 (Bernama) -- A father''s wish to give Aidilfitrimoney to his children went unfulfilled when his house was destroyed by firewhich also turned all his savings to ash...

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 2 (Bernama) - The documentary "Syahadah" produced by Radio Television Malaysia (RTM) for the seventh season this year, traces thedevelopment of Islam in Malaysia.It incl...

China has tightened loans,restricted purchases of multiple properties and imposed higher down payments while Singapore has introduced tougher measures aimed at foreign buyers, who have be...

Kuala Lumpur: Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd, the country's oldest Islamic lender, may assume the listing status of its parent company BIMB Holdings Bhd, sources said. BIMB owns 51 per cent of B...

Project ConcreteJungle is a search for Malaysian entrepreneurs of business venture or projects of thought provoking proportion to learn their origin story. The project is free resource bu...

Can you make a career out of skateboarding? Why, yes you can! Meet Fuad and Munir, the guys behind local deck makers Sibling Skateboards. Yes, KL has it’s own skateboard brand, foun...

What do you get when you cross the Fine Arts and Film Studies? A yearning for learning, apparently. Meet CultureRun, a service that hopes to make continuous learning easily accessible to ...

Chee Sukeats discovered his passion for skating when he was just 13. Life then intervened and when he graduated he went into advertising. Over the course of 7 years, he wrote copy and man...

Irman Hilmi is a familiar name in the cooler side of things in Kuala Lumpur. Besides being known as a talented art director at both Freeform and advertising agency Dentsu, he has also bee...

KUCHING: Tension is said to be brewing in Pakatan Rakyat (PR) as both DAP and PKR want to [...]

KOTA KINABALU: All 24 government hospitals and 77 health clinics in Sabah have gone ‘green’ yesterday through their [...]

PUTATAN:  There may be hope after all for single mother Aishah Abdullah to live in a comfortable home [...]

TAWAU: The National Registration Department here has refused to issue an identity card to a 27-year-old applicant as [...]

KOTA KINABALU: The Health Department has recorded about 60 hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) cases in Sabah [...]

CHANDLER, Ariz./WASHINGTON (Feb 22): Republican Mitt Romney revised his proposal for overhauling the U.S. tax code on Wednesday, calling...

GEORGE TOWN (Feb 22): The High Court here on Wednesday rejected an application by PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu to...

KUALA TERENGGANU (Feb 22): The government has allocated RM50 million for a programme called...

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22): The High Court today struck out a habeas corpus application filed...

KUALA LUMPUR (Feb 22): The Sultan of Selangor Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah on Wednesday chaired the...

Boeing's much-delayed 787 Dreamliner stars at the Singapore Airshow this week where companies touting private jets and defence hardware to the Asian market will also be out in force. Cop...

Rescue workers cut through a wrecked commuter train Wednesday to reach passengers who were crushed inside when it plowed into a retaining wall at a terminus, killing 49 people and injuri...

Indonesian forces backed by water cannons and armoured vehicles were locked in a tense stand-off outside a prison on Bali island Thursday after rioting inmates took control for a second ...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday called a ballot on the leadership of the ruling Labor party, bringing to a head an ugly row with predecessor Kevin Rudd. read more

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday unveiled plans to cut the top corporate tax rate to 28 percent and choke off lucrative loopholes, an election-year gambit that tests Republicans' p...

Taking on Perak mufti Harussani Zakaria, Mustafa K Anuar points out that it is certain actions by Muslim politicians and bureaucrats – their involvement in corruption, for instance ...

He had a deep and complex understanding of the human condition that made him rail at the meanness, injustice, and dishonesty towards the dispossessed, writes Khoo Boo Teik. It might seem ...

Francis Loh pays tribute to Aliran’s long-time friend and supporter, the scholar-activist Philip Khoo Khay Jin, who passed away in December 2011. So many friends showed up at the ap...

As the country faces relentless economic development, NGOs and Suhakam have a pivotal role to play in ensuring that the rights of the people are not neglected and the negative impact of d...

With the just concluded political debate between MCA president Datuk Seri Chua Soi Lek and DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng, we have crossed the Rubicon. There is no turning back from t...

A scheme of trafficking Ugandan women to Asia has attracted the attention of activists who say Uganda's government is not doing enough to protect vulnerable girls from sexual exploit...

The Malaysian government has banned writer Peter Mayle's book 'Where did I come from?' and has ordered shops to stop selling it.

Malaysia has banned the sale of a children's sex education book written by a British author 28 years ago, saying its contents "could threaten moral ...

The Danga Bay waterfront will face Singapore and developers hope to encourage large multinationals to relocate there, along with home-buyers and visitors. The whole development was given ...

at the Kallang Ground in Singapore. A poor finish meant Malaysia ended with 194. Guernsey were on track in their chase at 109 for 3, but five wickets fell in ten overs, three to medium-pa...

NEW DELHI: French supermarket giant Carrefour has opened its first cash and carry store in India, hoping the government will soon relax restrictions on foreign investment in its massive ...

WASHINGTON: US automakers Ford and Chrysler are recalling tens of thousands of vehicles due to safety problems, the government said today. Chrysler Group was recalling about 143,000 vehi...

BEIJING: Chinese President Hu Jintao said in a New Year's Eve address today China would adhere to the path of peaceful development and would always seek to cooperate when facing global p...

KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak today urged all Malaysians to fulfil their responsibility in building a better future for the coming generations and place the country in its...

FOCUS KUALA LUMPUR: For many Malaysian football fans the historic moment when Hassan Sani ran the length of the field to thread an exquisite pass to James Wong who swiftly scored the win...

KUALA LUMPUR: It is imperative that the current and future generations of Malaysians know how the nation has [...]

ALOR SETAR: A customs officer was sentenced to five years in prison and fined RM2,000 or six months [...]

KOTA KINABALU: A local gardener will stand trial on March 12-16 this year on a charge of murdering [...]

 KUALA LUMPUR: A Mydin Mohamad Holding Berhad Company head cashier pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court here [...]

ALOR SETAR: The High Court here yesterday set March 7 for the re-mention of the suit filed by [...]

23 FEB — Saya langsung tidak berminat dengan polemik siapa pemenang dalam debat di antara Setiausaha Agung DAP, Lim Guan Eng dengan Presiden MCA, Dr Chua Soi Lek, jam 5 petang, 18 F...

LISBON, Feb 23 — “The duality of man. The Jungian thing, sir.” — Private J.T. “Joker” Davis, from the Stanley Kubrick film “Full Metal Jacket&rdq...

LOS ANGELES, Feb 23 — Television entrepreneur Simon Cowell says he's learned one lesson from the US launch of his TV show "The X Factor". To keep his big mouth shut.That means he is...

TOKYO, Feb 23 — With Mobile World Congress less than a week away, manufacturers are starting to show off their brand new mobile devices. High-tech product releases announced the wee...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 23 — This is a selection of morning calls by local research houses for the day. OSK Research Economic overview Headline inflation remained on a downward trajectory...

by M. Saraswathi

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 (Bernama) -- Ever since the government embarked on its transformation programmes almost three years ago, the results are beginning to show on many fronts.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 22 (Bernama) -- A collaboration in healthcare sector with Malaysia can bring tremendous benefits to the Arab countries, considering the latter is now looking to emulate...

BERA, Feb 22 (Bernama) -- A Harimau Malaya train going from Tumpat to Johor Baharu was held up for 12 hours after its locomotive jumped the tracks at the Triang railway station near here...

SERI ISKANDAR, Feb 22 (Bernama) -- Universiti Teknologi Petronas (UTP) and Synergy International Sdn Bhd today signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop research programmes, ...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard calls a ballot for the leadership of the Labor Party on Monday to end a tussle with Kevin Rudd.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai urges Afghans "not to resort to violence" after protests over the burning of the Koran at a US airbase near Kabul.

Former Philippine President Gloria Arroyo pleads not guilty to electoral fraud before a court in Manila.

US and North Korean officials are meeting in Beijing for the first talks on Pyongyang's nuclear programme since the death of Kim Jong-il.

The Commonwealth calls for early elections in the Maldives to help solve the crisis caused by President Mohamed Nasheed's resignation.

Australian Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd resigned Wednesday, his office said, amid speculation he might mount a leadership challenge to Prime Minister Julia Gillard.

A series of blasts last week in Thailand that set off accusations between Iran and Israel involved bombs disguised as radio sets, police said Wednesday.

Hundreds of Indonesian police officers charged into a prison in Bali on Wednesday to subdue rioting inmates who had set a building on fire and thrown stones at firefighters.

Demonstrators burned tires and threw rocks outside a NATO military base in Kabul on Wednesday, as protests continued for a second day after troops burned copies of the Quran.

One year on, reminders of the massive earthquake that ripped through Christchurch, New Zealand, are never too far away, from the broken buildings to frequent aftershocks that rattle the c...

China could face an economic crisis unless it implements deep reforms, including scaling back its state-owned enterprises and making them operate more like commercial firms, a report says...

Asian companies are tapping bond markets at a record pace, worried that the euro-zone crisis may deepen and make it impossible for them to secure funds later in the year, say bankers who ...

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on Thursday called for a leadership vote within her ruling Labor Party, a day after bitter rival Kevin Rudd resigned as foreign minister, extending...

Greece braced for further anti-austerity protests while the country's parliament was debating legal changes that would clear the way for a debt restructuring.greece0222

California's attorney general reached a deal with six of the largest companies in the mobile-device market over privacy policies for apps.APPRIVACY

Former Philippine president enters plea on the first day of a landmark trial.

Julia Gillard calls on ex-leader Kevin Rudd, her likely challenger, to accept its outcome as final.

Demands by ethnic rebels, locked in six-decade-long fight for autonomy, follow signing of tentative peace deal.

Parts of Bali facility set on fire and reports of gunshots before police took control following

Thousands stand in silence in Christchurch park to commemorate first anniversary of earthquake that killed 185 people.

Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 08:10 by AFP WASHINGTON: Microsoft on Wednesday filed a complaint with the European Commission against Google's Motorola Mobility in the latest salvo in an ...

Wednesday, February 22, 2012 - 07:51 by AFP read more

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 15:31 by AFP TOKYO: The euro jumped more than one US cent after news that European finance chiefs had agreed a crucial deal to provide a massive bailout to d...

Sunday, February 19, 2012 - 19:00 by AFP LILLE: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is to be quizzed as a suspect about involvement in an alleged illegal prostitution ring, a source ...

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 - 12:03 by AFP MUMBAI: India's loss-making Kingfisher Airlines has cancelled as many as 32 flights a day, it said at the weekend, also admitting a glitch over ...

MESA, Arizona (Reuters) - Rivals heaped criticism on surprise front-runner Rick Santorum in a debate among Republican presidential candidates on Wednesday, hoping to stall his surge at a ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama made an opening offer in what could be a long negotiation with corporate America on Wednesday, putting forward his first detailed plan to cut...

AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces rained rockets and bombs down on opposition-held neighborhoods of the city of Homs, reducing buildings to rubble and kil...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Fitch cut Greece's long-term ratings on Wednesday to its lowest rating above a default, becoming the first ratings agency to make the widely expected downgrade after th...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several members of the Congress received mail threatening a biological attack and containing a suspicious powder later found to be harmless as law enforcement offic...

As Southeast Asian countries lined up against China in the South China Sea sign pacts with extra-territorial powers like Russia and India to redress the strategic balance, Beijing can onl...

India is resisting pressure from the United States and Israel to stop buying oil from Iran, despite Delhi signing on to various United Nations sanctions on Tehran over its nuclear program...

Whether there is any substance in allegations about a plot to kill the pope cannot be established, but China's name has been dragged into the conspiracy whirlpool. That's a leap of imagin...

As Iran and Azerbaijan trade barbs over allegations of assassination plots, many worry that these and other incidents mean the countries in the South Caucasus region - American-backed Geo...

As the "Friends of Syria" coalition lays an international path for ending a conflict that has claimed more than 6,000 lives, debate is raging over whether the United States should arm Syr...

The Alibaba Group offers up to $2.5 billion to take its Hong Kong-listed B2B trading platform private, four years after the company went public.

We talk to Michel Tosto, director and head of equities and fixed income for Viet Capital Securities, about his outlook for Vietnam.

Submissions for KNOC's bond are due this week. Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motors and Hyundai Capital are also eyeing dollar bonds.

Meanwhile Olam International taps the Singapore dollar market via a S$275 million perpetual.

Swire Pacific, Sun Hung Kai Properties and DBS rush to issue as Greek rescue package buoys credit markets.

While sympathetic to concerns over swaps-based ETFs, Kelvin Blacklock of Eastspring says fear of complexity is more to blame and explains why synthetics can sometimes work better than cas...

More hedge funds are managing less than $20 million as the billion-dollar club shrinks, says data provider Eurekahedge.

The firm may apply for up to Rmb300 million to provide an A-share strategy in a QIF structure out of Dublin. It also plans to apply for a type-1 licence in Hong Kong, where it is eager to...

The social security fund selects eFront to provide automated support for its alternative investments, with its domestic PE portfolio tipped to become increasingly important in 2012.

The firm creates a unit based on a basket of developed and EM currencies and commodities as a systematic hedging tool to safeguard against currency and inflation risks.

Steffen Seibert, spokesman for Angela Merkel, insisted that Berlin saw no need to increase the size of the €500bn European Stability Mechanism

The two plans show that there is strong support for reforms to the bafflingly complicated US tax system but division about how much revenue the system should raise

China, opening a significant gap with Russia, has yet to decide whether to attend an international ‘Friends of Syria’ gathering in Tunis

Restrictions on US banks could hit sovereign debt market at key moment in recovery, say UK and Japanese finance ministers

Australian prime minister calls leadership vote after Rudd resigns and says she cannot win election

Afghan protesters threw rocks near an American military base in Kabul on Wednesday.A day after NATO officials apologized for the burning of Korans, American Embassy officials were on lock...

Despite official quotas, nearly 4 in 10 births in Hong Kong last year were to mainland parents.Parents go to Hong Kong for better medical care and lifelong residency benefits for their ch...

Kevin Rudd at a parliamentary dinner last November.Mr. Rudd resigned on Wednesday amid speculation that he was seeking to topple Prime Minister Julia Gillard and regain the country’s lead...

Rajni, a severely malnourished 2-year-old girl, is weighed by health workers at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre, Shivpuri district, Madhya Pradesh, Feb. 1, 2012.India's progress on ...

India celebrates Ash Wednesday.