GEORGE TOWN: Trouble is brewing in the state Pakatan Rakyat again with a DAP MP lashing out at a PKR municipal councillor who allegedly lobbied for a stop-work order issued to a property developer to...

According to an announcement just made by the AIT, the current AIT Taipei office director Stephen M. Young will be replaced next month by William A. Stanton, the current deputy chief of mission at...

PETALING JAYA: The electronics and electrical sector in Malaysia is hiring again. Badly affected by the global economic downturn late last year which resulted in voluntary separation schemes and...

GEORGE TOWN: A stretch of road near a condominium here sank 1.2m, resulting in an adjacent development project being ordered to stop work. Penang Municipal Council president Tan Cheng Chui said the...

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak is confident that Barisan Nasional, including top Umno leaders as well as the Malays, are supportive of the various liberalisation measures he has announced...

SINGAPORE: Firefly will begin services from Kota Baru and Alor Setar to Singapore from Oct 25 and 27 respectively. This comes after five new routes are opened, in stages, between Malaysia and...

KUALA LUMPUR: Meeting up with a pen-pal two weeks after getting acquainted with her turned out to be a bad experience for a clerk. On June 25, Wong May Shan met her pen-pal known only as Yo Yo at the...

KUALA LUMPUR: An action plan to guarantee that women hold at least 30% of the decision-making positions in both the public and private sectors is expected to be implemented soon. The direction of the...

JOHOR BARU: A Year Five pupil choked to death on a fish ball while having lunch at his home here yesterday. Nusajaya OCPD Supt Abd Aziz Ahmad said that Diong Chang Xian, 11, had just returned home...

MALAYSIANS who voted for Pakatan Rakyat in the last general election must feel disappointed and disgusted at recent events involving the coalition. Coalition adviser Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is...

SEOUL, 3 JULY: In an apparent first, North Korea ~ a country that struggles to feed its 24 million people ~ has aired a beer commercial on state television. The advertisement, which lasted nearly...

Given the short lead time available for presenting the budget for 2009-10, it is understandable that Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee decided to keep the focus on passenger amenities and early...

known as Haflong Hindi. At least five of the 10 tribes belong to the broader Kuki family, though under the poisonous impact of ‘homeland’ politics and ‘identity’ mongering,...

The mysterious shrinking sheep on the island of St Kilda far off the west coast of Scotland, sounds like a job for Sherlock Holmes. A rare herd of wild Soay sheep on the remote island are refusing to...

One is a member of the Malkangiri District Cricket Association and custodian of its cricket kit. Another, a minor contractor in a public works project. A third runs a tiny shop. They’re all...

The pristine present moment is continuously adulterated by this distortion. The mind is therefore never still. The thoughts keep flowing relentlessly, almost involuntarily. And thoughts are ...

KUALA LUMPUR: An action plan will be introduced soon in which women will hold at least 30% of the decision-making positions in both the public and private sectors. A draft of the action plan,...

The Control Yuan is Taiwan's highest watchdog body. Its members, nominated by the president and confirmed by the Legislative Yuan, may be better known as ombudsmen in the West. Their job it is,...

Foreign Minister Datuk Anifah Aman has a heavy task to bring about change, but he believes his officers will deliver given the chance and funding from the Government. IF DATUK Anifah Aman can find...

MIRI: Beaten up and bruised, two siblings ran away from home clutching only an umbrella and a plastic bag of clothes. The 12-year-old girl and her brother, eight, wandered into an industrial estate...

DOVER (England): A visibly upset Zahra Masoumah Abdul Halim burst into tears when she was forced to abandon her attempt to conquer the English Channel due to unfavourable tide and wind conditions....

SETIU: Wanted! – Kenyir Monsters. And the bounty is RM10,000 for each Arapaima gigas anglers catch. Announcing the angler’s dream offer, Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said Terengganu has...

KUALA LUMPUR: Three men, who are believed to be attempting to revive the outlawed terrorist organisation Jemaah Islamiah (JI), have been arrested under the Internal Security Act. The trio, aged...

Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium roof collapse in Gong Badak here on June 6. Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Said said the government had earlier rescinded the decision to establish its own investigation...

MARANG: A disabled and elderly man took advantage of a young woman’s pity to outrage her modesty at a textile shop in Bukit Payong here. The 55-year-old man, who had limped into the shop,...

IT is a known fact that our younger generation is weak in English and I am happy to know our Government is addressing this issue. Sadly though, I have not heard anything about the level of...

I REFER to the letter “Too much emphasis on paper chase” (The Star, July 1). I do not agree that we have been too engrossed in evaluating the number of A’s our children should get....

KUALA LUMPUR: Forty-eight new cases of influenza A (H1N1) cases were reported yesterday — 40 imported cases and eight local transmissions. It was the biggest jump in cases in a day after the 38...

Sometimes we get frightened to death and paralysed by stories of a pandemic from diseases overseas and ignore the real danger literally lurking and killing in our very own backyards. The A (H1N1)...

THE passing of the Personal Data Protection Bill by the Dewan Rakyat, “Private data protected (The Star, July 2) is most welcome. For far too long, members of the public had been suffering in...

OUR Prime Minister has proven himself to be a man of his words. When he introduced the 1Malaysia concept, it was seen as something so impossible to attain but Datuk Seri Najib does not seem to be a...

GEORGE TOWN: Angry residents of Kampung Buah Pala have threatened to send a letter to Unesco to revoke George Town’s World Heritage Site status should the state fail to stop their village from...

WASHINGTON (AP) - NASA has tweeted in space, but now one of its astronauts is breaking a new space Twitter barrier. He will tweet from space in Spanish and English. Astronaut Jose Hernandez grew up...

By Karen Armstrong, Grove, $9.75 That the Bible should feature in a series called Books that Changed the World goes without saying. The blurb of this book informs readers that the Bible has been...

VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) - The bright glow at the summit of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano has been snuffed out by a series of large rock falls within its crater. The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says the rock...

The Economic Survey for 2008-09 presented to Parliament ahead of the Union Budget has taken note of the deceleration in the GDP growth to 6.7 per cent last year. Though that is 2.1 percentage points...

In 2003, George W. Bush announced plans for NASA to return to the moon by 2020 and once again, though, the U.S. faces some serious competition. The same year , Yang Lee Wei became China’s first...

Europe is facing some difficult challenges. We need to talk about these challenges and how to address them. I am firm in the belief that every challenge is an opportunity. And that is what the...

The World Bank said on Wednesday that it committed $58.9 b in fiscal year 2009 to help countries struggling amid the global economic crisis, a 54 per cent increase over the previous fiscal year and a...

The Economic Survey 2008-09 says India's economy is in revival mode. But we're asked to junk complacency. Fiscal measures taken so far to beat the slowdown could trigger high inflation down the...

WE refer to the letter written by Renu “Have more daycare centres?” (The Star, June 30) and also Victor Chew’s letter “Set up creches to help working mums” (The Star,...

Justice has many dimensions: social, economic and political, as also paedo, gerontic and gendered. Gender justice has a global amplitude, and gender-based discrimination is universally poignant. In...

ABOUT 15 years ago, my late Uncle Robert from Hong Kong came for a visit and was looking around to settling down in Malaysia, having lived in the then British colony since the 1940s. Uncle Robert was...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The private pathologist who examined David Carradine's body says Thai authorities have determined the actor died of asphyxia and so far, he agrees. Dr. Michael Baden of New York...

Four years ago, in a newspaper interview that went unnoticed even in West Bengal, ‘Comrade Dhruba’ described plans for a guerrilla campaign that would stretch from Medinipur to Malda. But...

I agree with Rozlan Mohd Noor “Better to train local teachers” (The Star, July 1). Like Rozlan, I too would like to contribute and teach English as I have always been passionate about the...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - An executive with a concert promoter says Michael Jackson's memorial service will be Tuesday at Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles - if that's what his mother wants. Randy...

I remember standing in long queues at ration shops in Calcutta, Madras and Delhi when i was younger. Lines for food were a part of everyday life. You got substandard rice and dirty, large-grained...

In my early career days, a compact Walkman was a constant companion. It secretly came with me in my jeans or formal dark blue blazer. Besides putting out the latest hits, it did other things. I...

Over the years i have learned to deeply respect God, both for who He is and what He has done. I have a healthy reverence for His standards, and His right to judge each of us. I admire His...