Rubbish collection: A matter of having the right attitude (The New Straits Times)
ONE would have thought that a town as small as Taiping would be one of the cleanest in Malaysia. But no! It is easily one of the dirtiest. [...more]
ONE would have thought that a town as small as Taiping would be one of the cleanest in Malaysia. But no! It is easily one of the dirtiest. [...more]
PUTRAJAYA: 7,987 Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) 2009 candidates registered excellent results (A+, A, and/or A-) for all subjects sat for compared to 6,277 in 2008. [...more]
Ntv7’s new drama series Glowing Embers revolves around Taiping’s charcoal industry. [...more]
A MINI museum dedicated to the Iban trackers and Sarawak Rangers will be built at a proposed heroes memorial in Kota Sentosa near Kuching. [...more]
MELBOURNE: The High Court here today granted an application to strike out a RM100 million defamation suit filed by former Internal Security Act (ISA) detainee and Hindraf legal adviser M. Manoharan against the government and five others. [...more]
jagdev@thestar.com.my KUALA LUMPUR: The proposed new highway connecting Taiping and Johor Baru will bring economic benefits to the country if the project is viable but analysts remain sceptical about ... [...more]
TAIPING: Upgrading of the Raja Permaisuri Bainun Hospital in Ipoh and Parit Buntar Hospital are among the 131 projects submitted by the Perak government to the Economic Planning Unit under the 10th Malaysia Plan. [...more]
TAIPING, Feb 26 (Bernama) -- Perak is confident the Economic Planning Unit (EPU) of the Prime Minister's Department will endorse the projects it has proposed for inclusion in the 10th Malaysia Plan, Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir said today. [...more]
SHAH ALAM, Feb 25 (Bernama) -- An alternative medicine practitioner was charged in the Sessions Court here today with cheating a company director of RM150,000to settle a logging case being investigated by the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC). [...more]
KAMPUNG GAJAH, Feb 24 (Bernama) -- Police found parts of 17 motorcycles in a canal here and believe they have exposed a gang stealing the machines to use the parts for illegal racing. [...more]