Aug 15th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 — Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s and his brother Datuk Seri Nazir Razak’s reform message and call for all Malaysians to jointly grow the economic pie at MCA’s Chinese economic congress yesterday was given scant attention in today’s major Malay newspapers. Neither the prime minister’s nor the CIMB CEO’s speeches made the front pages …
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Aug 15th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 — Lim Kit Siang today questioned whether the Najib administration’s New Economic Model (NEM) is a “myth or reality”, and asked if the prime minister was committed to the policy. Datuk Seri Najib Razak launched the NEM last March but has yet to roll its reform plans, which the International Monetary Fund (IMF) lauded yesterday …
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Aug 15th
LANGKAWI, Aug 15 — Ramadan is a time much awaited by new converts as they believe fasting could help mould their personality. For Safiah Abdullah, 38, from Nagoya, Japan, who embraced Islam in February last year, this is the second time she is going through Ramadan.
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Aug 15th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 — Controversial Mingguan Malaysia columnist Dr Mohd Ridhuan Tee Abdullah continued his weekly diatribe against non-Malays, saying today that minorities who cannot respect the special position of Islam and the Malays should return to their homeland. The Muslim convert also sneered that Malaysia should be renamed “Cinasia” or …
Excerpt from: Utusan columnist tells critics to ‘go home’
Aug 15th
LANGKAWI, Aug 15 — More foreign tourists are coming to this resort island this year compared to domestic tourists, Langkawi Development Authority (Lada) tourism manager Megat Shahrul Azman Abas said. He said the latest figure obtained from hotels here showed that 55 per cent of tourists here were foreigners. In previous years, domestic tourists …
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Aug 14th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 15 — Calls to set up special schools for teenage mothers nationwide with the first one in Malacca scheduled for Sept 1 due to the belief they may be denied access to full education, appear to be moot.
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Aug 14th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14 – DAP National Chairman Karpal Singh today called on the government to set up a Royal Commission of Inquiry to look into the causes for the increase in cases of abandoned babies and recommend measures to deal with the situation which required immediate redress. He said the rampant dumping of babies resulting in their deaths …
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Aug 14th
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 14 – Malaysia is offering the fasting month of Ramadan and Ramadan Bazaar to be shared with the world as tourism products, said Tourism Minister Datuk Seri Dr Ng Yen Yen. “That is why we have been inviting foreign tourists to be with us during Ramadan.
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Aug 14th
PEKAN, Aug 14 – Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said the recent Cabinet decision on cases of babies being abandoned in the country does not mean that all such cases are classified as murder. He said the police must investigate every case first before the Attorney-General could make a decision to classify it as a murder case. “The Cabinet …
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Aug 14th
PADANG BESAR, Aug 14 – The Royal Malaysian Customs foiled an attempt to smuggle in a container load of sparklers and firecrackers at the Padang Besar Industrial Area, here yesterday. Perlis Customs director Mohd Isa Endot said during the 11.25am incident, Customs detained the container believed to be from Thailand and found 1,136 boxes of …