PARIT BUNTAR, Jul 6 – The 2017 Kuala Lumpur SEA Games (KL2017) Torch Run arrived at Dewan Merdeka Parit Buntar at 10.40am today led by Sungai Acheh State Assemblyman Datuk Mahmud Zakaria. The arrival of Mahmud marked the start of the Perak leg of the SEA Games Torch Run. The assemblyman from
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 6 – The two-day Students Parliament sitting scheduled to take place at the Parliament Building from July 18 will become the platform for varsity students to debate and voice out their opinions and aspirations on the 2015 National Transformation (TN50) initiative. Malaysian Council of Former Elected Representatives (Mubarak) president Tan Sri
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 6 – The FTSE Bursa Malaysia KLCI (FBM KLCI) rose in late trading today for a 2.37-point, or 0.13% gain, mainly due to interests in selected heavyweights led by IOI Corp. At 5pm, the FBM KLCI ended at an intra-day high of 1,770.53 points against Wednesday’s close of 1,768.18. The index moved between
PUTRAJAYA, Jul 6 – Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S.Subramaniam said 23 doctors who do not have a pass in the Bahasa Malaysia (BM) paper of the Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examination must sit for the paper until they pass. “If they fail (this November), they will keep on taking (BM paper)
SEPANG, Jul 8 – AirAsia to launch MyCorporate, a suite of products exclusively made with the business traveller in mind. MyCorporate consists of three bundle options, depending on the requirements of the traveller and the company budget – Fare Only, Corporate Lite and Corporate Full Flex. The Fare Only product is the
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 6 – The 10th edition of Asia’s premier annual event in the field of software testing, SOFTEC Asia, will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre from 1 to 3 August 2017. Featuring the theme “Testing as a Service” (TaaS), SOFTEC Asia 2017 will be focusing
SINGAPORE, Jul 6 – The siblings of Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong issued a seven-page rejoinder on Thursday to his statement to parliament earlier this week, reiterating accusations that he had abused his power in a dispute over their late father’s home. Singaporeans have been riveted since mid-June by a
AMSTERDAM, Jul 6 – Gemalto (Euronext NL0000400653 GTO), the world leader in digital security, announced today it has been awarded the Frost & Sullivan 2017 Encryption and Data Protection Technology Leadership Award. Frost & Sullivan analysts independently evaluated Gemalto’s SafeNet data protection and encryption solutions, in particular, the commercial success,
GEORGE TOWN, Jul 6 – The Consumers’ Association of Penang (CAP) strongly believes that consumers will benefit from the NFL just as employees benefit from the Social Security Organisation (SOCSO) which operates on the principle of NFL. If SOCSO has been overwhelming successful for more than four decades why can’t
SINGAPORE, Jul 5 – A statue of a Chinese goddess adorned in brightly coloured clothes and an extravagant headdress has become an online sensation after it was pictured flying business class to Malaysia. The 1.8m model of Chinese sea goddess Mazu was pictured strapped into the luxury seat on a flight from
PETALING JAYA, Jul 5 – The Employees Provident Fund (EPF) will allow its members to settle their outstanding education loans from July 21. This could benefit up to 70,000 members who have yet to repay these loans, The Star Online reported today. Members can settle their outstanding education loan amount from
PETALING JAYA, Jul 5 – The Cabinet has decided to retain the compulsory pass for Bahasa Malaysia subject in the SPM examination for all public service positions and no waiver will be allowed. Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi announced this today after the Cabinet meeting. Health Minister Datuk Seri
HAMBURG, Jul 5 – Riot police used water cannon overnight Tuesday to disperse several gatherings of protesters ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg. Police first dislodged protesters who had set up tents in a park in the western district of Altona, according to police and media reports. “This is not a
THE HAGUE, jul 5 – The trials of any suspects arrested in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over war-torn eastern Ukraine will be held in the Netherlands, Dutch officials announced Wednesday. All 298 people on board were killed when the plane was downed on July 17, 2014 on a
PETALING JAYA, Jul 5 – The Malaysian Islamic Development Department (Jakim) has expressed regret over a video that shows a Muslim woman with her pet dog “Bubu”. Jakim director-general Tan Sri Othman Mustapha said Muslims owning dogs and their needless contact with canines were highly disturbing, adding that such actions were against
LANGKAWI, Jul 5 – Langkawi SkyCab, an over 4,000-metre-long cable car system linking Oriental Village at Teluk Burau and the 708-metre-high Gunung Mat Chinchang, here, has been listed as among the world’s top 10 best cable car systems by an international travel website. Smartertravel.com has placed it alongside Loen Skylift in
PARIS, Jul 5 – Can a motley crew of countries grouping climate champions Germany and France with oil giants Russia and Saudi Arabia muster a joint defence of the Paris Agreement against Donald Trump? This is the question for observers as the G20 group of major economies gathers in Hamburg amid a
BERLIN, Jul 5 – The Group of 20 leading industrialised and emerging powers hold annual summits on economic governance, with wars and crises often overtaking the official agenda. Grouping the United States and other G7 members with giants such as China, India and Russia, it represents two thirds of the world population,
ALOR STAR, Jul 5 – Kedah recorded a 77.8% hike in dengue fever cases or 871 cases from Jan 1 to July1 compared to 381 cases during the same period last year. State Health Department director, Datuk Dr Norhizan Ismail said there were three deaths due to dengue involving two cases in
KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 4 – Tickets to the 29th SEA Games here (KL2017) are being sold to the public from today. The tickets, priced at RM10 to RM20, are sold online via www.kualalumpur2017.com.my, while their availability at various sales kiosks will be announced later. Tickets are required for entry to 19 events
