Paris, Budapest to enter race for 2024...
Paris and Budapest are set to enter the race for the 2024 Olympics on Tuesday and with more cities watching it could become a classic narrowly fought contest. France is to use the annual Olympic Day to...
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After 5 decades of governing a nation, what has Umno brought for the people of Malaysia in collaboration with its race-based partners MCA and MIC? The Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition diehards will...
View ArticleWhy no open letter to rebut Wall Street Journal, Kit Siang asks...
DAP's Lim Kit Siang today continued to question Datuk Seri Najib Razak's silence following a Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report that the troubled 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) had indirectly...
View ArticleChile declares environmental emergency over polluted Santiago...
Chilean authorities declared an environmental emergency for the Santiago metropolitan region for Monday, forcing more than 900 industries to temporarily shut down and about 40% of the capital's 1.7...
View ArticleKLCI opens lower in line with global worries over Greek debt...
The FBM KLCI opened lower this morning as market sentiment appeared to stay wary in line with the jittery mood at the most global markets by concerns over the Greek debt crisis. At 9am, the FBM KLCI...
View ArticleMalaysia perlu tetapkan pendirian berhubung TPPA sebelum kedatangan Obama,...
Ketua Pemuda PKR Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad menggesa kerajaan Malaysia menetapkan pendirian berhubung Perjanjian Perkongsian Trans Pasifik (TPPA) bagi mengelakkan Amerika Syarikat dan syarikat-syarikat besar...
View ArticlePenghapusan sekolah kebangsaan – Zainuddin Maidintmi196x196.gif
(Merujuk kepada interviu The Star dengan Sultan Ibrahim Almarhum Sultan Iskandar pada 12 Jun 2015) DYMM Sultan Johor, Sultan Ibrahim; Sebelum kemerdekaan, orang Melayu mengharapkan kemerdekaan akan...
View ArticlePutrajaya must make a stand on TPPA, says PKRTPPA_270414_TMINAZIRSUFARI_06.jpg
Malaysia needs to state its stand on the contentious Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA), said PKR, following reports that US President Barack Obama will make a second visit to the country this...
View ArticleRinggit opens slightly higher against US...
The ringgit opened slightly higher against the US dollar today following demand for the local currency. At 9am, the ringgit was quoted at 3.7300/7330 to the US dollar from last Friday's close of...
View ArticleNasi Ambang and delightful Johorean dishes at d’CengkihNasi_Ambang_dcengkih.jpg
A glorious Nasi Ambang (RM9.80), which is of Javanese origin, emerged on a banana leaf as I unwrapped it. Rice soaked in the flavours of the beef rendang and sambal udang, and delicious side dishes –...
View ArticleAdun Selangor dinasihati menghadap sultanAZMIN_ALI_120615_TMISETH_01.JPG
Semua ahli dewan undangan negeri (Adun) PKR, PAS dan DAP di Selangor dinasihatkan menghadap Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah dengan segera bagi menyatakan sokongan terhadap menteri besarnya Mohamed Azmin...
View ArticleSebelum muktamar difitnah, sudah kalah dibelasah, kata bekas naib presiden...
Bekas Naib Presiden PAS Salahuddin Ayub kesal dengan sikap ahli parti Islam itu yang masih mengecamnya walaupun tewas mempertahankan jawatannya semasa pemilihan muktamar ke-61 awal Jun lalu. Sejurus...
View ArticleOil prices fall on worries over Greek debt, oversupply...
Oil prices eased in Asian trade on Monday, falling for a second session on concerns about the outcome of an emergency euro zone meeting later in the day on the Greek debt crisis and worries about...
View ArticleChong Wei claims first title after 8-month...
Former world number one Datuk Lee Chong Wei took only 39 minutes to defeat his opponent in the US Open Grand Prix Gold and claim his first open tournament title. The 33-year-old Penang-born seasoned...
View ArticleTransparency International-Malaysia lauds Tanjung Offshore for corporate...
Tanjung Offshore Bhd, embroiled earlier this year in a boardroom tussle after minority shareholders lodged police reports against some questionable deals at the company, is making the right moves for...
View ArticleA tale of 3 pancakesPENANG_TALE_OF_3_PANCAKES_130515_TMIHASNOOR_03.jpg
The food workshops at the 'Eat Rite: Ritual Foods of George Town' next month will feature three Indian pancakes (paniyaram) from two different communities. The savoury vellai paniyaram pancake has a...
View ArticleMenantu Hadi digugurkan, Haron Din kekal ketuai Majlis Syura...
Menantu presiden PAS, Zaharudin Mohamad tidak dilantik semula sebagai ahli Majlis Syura ulama selepas sesinya tamat, baru-baru ini. Zaharudin yang juga Ahli Jawatankuasa (AJK) PAS Pusat itu tidak...
View ArticleMulti-religious society: destructive or constructive? – Dyana...
Last month, I had the honour of being selected to participate in the Australia-Malaysia Institute (AMI) Muslim Exchange Programme Visit. The purpose of the programme was for us, the participants, to...
View ArticleActivist Adam Adli seeks new possibilities at UN’s Geneva...
Adam Adli Abdul Halim first made headlines in 2011 when he lowered a flag depicting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak at a protest demanding academic freedom, when he was a student at Universiti...
View ArticleMIC resolutions have no legal effect, says Palanivel’s...
Two resolutions passed at the MIC special gathering yesterday, including a declaration that Datuk Seri G. Palanivel is no longer the party president, is ineffective and legally not binding, lawyer J....
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