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EC Blackout photo is a fake
KUALA LUMPUR: A photograph circulated on the Internet showing a "blackout" during a vote-counting process at the recent general election was staged, preliminary investigation by the Election Commission found. EC ...
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A thematic play seen
INVESTORS are back and participating actively in the stock market since the 13th general election. Counters across various sectors are up, notably led by blue chips followed by second liners. While investors are pouring money into the more volatile stocks in favoured sectors like construction and oil and gas, a trend that has seen Sarawak-based counters race ahead has also prominent. Some ...
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Sarawak counters hogging the limelight
, which is some 42.2% owned by the family of the Chief Minister of Sarawak, has always been seen as the main beneficiary and the best proxy to the many projects that will be taking off from the Sarawak Corridor of Renewable Energy (Score). It has been one of the top performers of Bursa Malaysia, with its share price gaining some 60.36% to RM5.35 on a year to date basis. Its market capitalisation ...
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Getting GST acceptance will be tough
AS soon as talk of introducing a goods and services tax (GST) was uttered, reaction to such a move has been swift. Opposition to a GST kicked off as soon as Minister in the Prime Minister’s ...
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A yen for the unloved dollar standard
TRAVELLING around the South-East Asian region last week, the mood was all about currency fluctuation and impact on markets. Things do look different when the Thai stock market daily turnover touches US$2bil and is higher than that of Singapore. But the headline that Thai growth slowed quarter-on-quarter but still grew 5.3% year-on-year gave rise to fears that export-driven economies in the ...
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Dance groups laud move to include more races in shows
said it was a welcome move that could give more opportunities for dancers to perform before a wider audience. "When hiring troupes to perform dances of a particular culture, it would be best to hire those who are experienced or well-versed as it will look more polished," she said. Indira, who has been teaching and performing Barathanatya dance for 47 years, said even if the ministry ...
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Make our pastime profitable
ALTHOUGH the magnetic corporate world always attracts more attention than the less glamorous small and medium-size enterprise (SME) industry, the latter is closer and perhaps more important to us than we realise. From the community grocer, the goreng pisang stall and to the pasar malam that we often get our kitchen supplies from, we are all surrounded and somewhat depend on these self-made ...
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Vujicic finds magic in helping youths
PETALING JAYA: Motivational speaker extraordinaire Nick Vujicic has a passion for helping youths, a message he conveys in the over 2,000 speeches he has made in six continents. Despite being born without limbs, he thinks it is worse for teenagers to be brought up in violent homes. "There are teenagers who are brought up in very violent homes and I believe that's worse than having no ...
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Bitten by the music bug
IT was the swinging 60s and The Beatles was taking the world by storm. Eight-year-old Mohamed Raslan Abdul Rahman had just heard the Liverpool band’s hit All My Loving on the radio, and he was mesmerised. After watching It’s Been A Hard Day’s Night at the movies the following year, he was hooked. It has been 40 years since Raslan’s introduction to pop culture and in this ...
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Akhbar Satar replaces Low as president of TI-Malaysia
as its new president. Akhbar is a former official with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission and is president of the Kuala Lumpur-based Malaysian Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. ...
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First-half 2013 figure seen to surpass that of the same period last year
PETALING JAYA: Vehicle sales in the first six months of 2013 should surpass the sales achieved in the first half of last year, despite initial hesitation by customers adopting a ';wait-and-see'; attitude leading up to the 13th general election (GE13). ';First-half 2013 total industry volume (TIV) should easily surpass the previous corresponding period’s 301,269 units. Our ...
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Tasty Facebook party poopers
, taking lots of pictures of food can indicate health or mental problems. I don’t know if it is a sign of mental illness but the picture you took is certainly a great advertisement for many food and beverage (F&B) outlets provided the food is great. And it could probably get bad publicity for F&B that has lousy food or services. Many F&B outlets are trying to get more followers ...
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Adnan Multi-racial party in place of BN will be there soon enough
said it was just a matter of time before a new multi-racial party is formed to replace the ruling coalition. "We are working towards evolving Barisan. I do not know if this will take place in the immediate future or whether it will need more time, but believe me, it will happen," he said yesterday. Tengku Adnan said numerous suggestions had been made over the name and structure of the ...
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More can be done to promote private retirement scheme
PETALING JAYA: The Malaysian Employers Federation (MEF) believes that more can be done to encourage the public to take up the private retirement scheme (PRS). ';The PRS is something positive for retirement but I think a lot of things need to be done for it to be more attractive and viable,'; ...
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Tycoon may be planning IPO of football club Cardiff City
is exploring an intial public offering (IPO) of UK football team Cardiff City for as early as this year, people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters, in a deal that would follow the team’s recent promotion to the Premier League. A listing for the Welsh team would follow Manchester United’s debut on the New York Stock Exchange last year, which raised US$233.2mil (RM707.65mil) in ...
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MFEA sees sales of home-made furniture abroad declining 10
GEORGE TOWN: The Malaysian Furniture Entrepreneurs Association (MFEA) expects overseas sales of locally-made furniture to decline by 9% to 10% in the first quarter of this year. ...
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CREC-TBM’s overseas plans hinge on machines sold to Malaysia
said the company hoped the machines would perform well and convince potential clients in Singapore, which it wanted to break into. ';We have a registered company – China Tunneling Equipment Overseas Company – in Hong Kong for about four months now. Following this, we set up our branch offices in Kuala Lumpur and Singapore. ';They are responsible for our operations in places ...
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Thousands turn up to pray for peace and good health in JB
JOHOR BARU: Thousands of Buddhists gathered at a Wesak Day ceremony at SJKC Foon Yew 1 here to pray for health and peace in the country. Despite the rain, many devotees turned up at the event organised by the Johor branch of the Malaysian Buddhist Association. They also participated in the bathing of Buddha ritual and a procession later in the evening. Bank officer Tay Kim Mai, 54, who attended ...
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YKGI eyes Indonesian Thai markets
said the range of products to be exported included pre-painted galvanised iron coils, galvanised iron coils and cold-rolled coils. ';We are targeting to export 1,000 tonnes of the steel products each per month to Indonesia and Thailand in the first 12 months. Every month, we hope to export between RM6mil and RM7mil worth of the products,'; he told StarBiz after the company’s AGM ...
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Walk the talk says Kit Siang to politicians
's speech to end race politics and ease escalating racial polarisation. "My wish on Wesak Day is for all leaders, starting with the Prime Minister, to walk the talk of their Wesak Day messages. I urge Najib to show leadership by example in his call on the people to set aside their differences at all levels of society," he said in a statement here yesterday. He challenged Najib if ...
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Malaysians urged to be ready for digital wave
KUALA LUMPUR: With digital as the new world order, Malaysians should prepare themselves to face this ';new wave'; to keep Malaysia in pace towards achieving developed country status by 2020, says an expert. Over the last decade, digital technology has shaped more economic change and social progress than any other new innovation, said Karthi Palanisamy, organising chairman of ...
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Running under a giant canvas for good tidings
IPOH: Hundreds of devotees unfurled a giant canvas painting of Sakyamuni Buddha at the Enlightened Heart Buddhist Centre in Tambun here, in conjunction with Wesak Day. It is a traditional practice to unfurl the thangka in the temple compounds for it to draw power from the sun. Devotees would also run under the 60m by 12m canvas to receive blessings from Buddha. Buddhists also thronged other ...
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Misif Mergers vital for local steel millers to compete
KUCHING: Local steel millers may need to merge in order to have at least five million tonnes of production capacity per annum. Malaysian Iron & Steel Industry Federation ...
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Ipoh Timor MP to be charged over ‘illegal rally’
IPOH: Ipoh Timor MP Thomas Su Keong Siong is expected to be charged at the Sessions Court here on Monday with violating the Peaceful Assembly Act 2012. The charge is believed to be in connection with a rally organised by the Perak DAP on May 9 here. Su said he would fight the charge, describing the provision in Section 9 (1) of the PAA as "ridiculous". "I got the call earlier ...
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Putrajaya undergoes transformation for fest
PUTRAJAYA: The serious business of running a government took a back seat in the administrative capital as it was transformed for the Putrajaya Youth Festival 2013. Taking place along Persiaran Perdana known as the Putrajaya boulevard and its surrounding areas, the festival drew thousands of youths to join in the hundreds of activities that will run until tomorrow. Youth ...
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Malaysia's 10th MP sets focus on education
On the 10th of June, 2010, the 10th Malaysia Plan was revealed to Malaysia’s news media, outlining what is essentially the government’s budget plans for the next five years. The 10th Malaysia Plan will therefore be in effect during 2011 to 2015. Malaysia is a vast country and the plan is therefore vast as well, a thick and complicated document, but one of the most important aspects of the plans announced in parliament were those that involve the education departments of the country.
Malaysia has an extensive public schooling system, operated under the belief that every child has a right to equal and fair opportunity in the country, a right that is enshrined in the constitution. The government spends around RM 7 billion on public education throughout the country, and in the 10MP, extremely important plans were outlined, aimed at increasing pre-school attendance from 67% of the population currently, to 87% by 2012. Read more
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