Raya with a difference
Open houses, sumptuous food, green packets — these are part of the Hari Raya festival but two individuals have been doing something different to celebrate the occasion. [...more]
Open houses, sumptuous food, green packets — these are part of the Hari Raya festival but two individuals have been doing something different to celebrate the occasion. [...more]
AFTER more than 32 years of teaching, including five years as a deputy district education officer, SMK Berapit principal Toh Kim Hock (inset) finally called it a day on Aug 26. [...more]
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 1 It took four hours for the police to search his house but to the timid Mat Sah Mohammed Satray, it was best not to utter a word of complaint. Hands clenched into fists and forced together by the uncomfortable metal of handcuffs, the 39-year-old perched nervously on a two-seater settee in his living room as they raided his ... [...more]
IPOH, MALAYSIA - Two girls had a frightful night when three men hijacked their parents' car with them still in the vehicle. They were later found unharmed by the roadside, about 6km from where the car was stolen. [...more]
JOURNALISM, says veteran journalist A. Kathirasen, 57, is basically a public conversation. [...more]
By Clara Chooi KUALA LUMPUR, April 30 — The DAP today accused the police of yet another case of power abuse, claiming policemen beat up a 17-year-old boy in Perak after arresting him on suspicion that he was a drug addict. [...more]
IPOH: Two brothers high on the wanted list for armed robberies in Perak and other states were shot dead by police as they tried to flee in a car in Jalan Kamunting, Taiping on Thursday night. [...more]
HOSPITAL operator Columbia Asia Sdn Bhd, which is building 15 hospitals in the region, has secured RM250 million Islamic financing to fund six hospitals in Malaysia. Three of the six hospitals located in Puchong, Taiping and Nusajaya are already in operation, while the rest are being built in Bukit Rimau, Shah Alam; Balakong, Selangor; and Setapak, Kuala Lumpur [...more]
I WAS born in 1957 in Yam Seng estate in Semanggol, near Taiping. My father, S. Krishnasamy, was headmaster of the Tamil primary school there but later moved to Kamunting, where he became an ordinary teacher, so that we could go to King Edward VII school in Taiping. [...more]
Malaysia said Wednesday it had arrested 10 people including nine foreigners for "acts of terrorism", saying they were members of an international terror outfit and threatened national security. [...more]