Canadian Markets: Canada shares tip up as miners gain
MarketWatch Wednesday 21st October, 2009
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Canadian stocks eked out modest gains Wednesday as advances in mining firms overshadowed falling insurance and tech stocks. The S&P/TSX Composite index
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Malaysia urges parties in conflicts to discard extremism
KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 (Bernama) -- Malaysia has urged all parties in conflicts to discard extremism and move instead towards promoting a culture of peace to resolve differences. Malaysia's Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) in New York, Datuk Hussein Haniff said such a culture would bring together all actors and could be undertaken by community and religious leaders, ...
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Political Jockeying Ahead of Malaysia Election
The police said 45,000 people. Some politicians claimed it was 60,000. Other independent estimates were as high 150,000 individuals. Such squabbling over crowd numbers at political events isn't unique to Malaysia, but nonetheless likely sets the adversarial tone for the coming weeks or months until the next parliamentary election, due to be called by the end of April. "We want a free ...
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Wall Street posts first weekly loss since mid-April on Fed angst
NEW YORK: The S&P 500 declined for a third day on Friday, with the three major stock indexes posting their first negative week since mid-April on lingering concern that the central bank may scale back its stimulus measures to support the economy. Still, the indexes closed well off their lows in light volume ahead of the three-day Memorial Day holiday weekend. The Dow ended slightly higher, ...
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Pakatan leaders mixed on single-party Barisan
said that it wasn't about the composition of the party but the ability to gain the confidence of the people. He added that Barisan had to take stock of its current position to avoid the coalition's popularity slipping further. Speaking to reporters after the opening of PKR's ninth congress Saturday, the DAP strongman said that it was a political reality that multi-racial parties ...
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PAS mulling action against members who caused three-way fights
PETALING JAYA: PAS leadership is mulling taking action against errant members who were involved three-corner fights in the recent polls, resulting in losses to PKR and Parti Sosialis Malaysia (PSM). ...
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Blackmail victim reaches end of tether
SANDAKAN: A housewife who has had enough of a blackmailer's regular threats to make her nude pictures public has sought police help to end her nightmare. The 29-year-old woman, who could not afford to pay the latest demand of RM3,000, decided to lodge a police report to end about three-years of constant extortion, said Sandakan police chief Asst Comm Rowell Marong. Rowell said that the girl ...
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PKR to postpone party elections
PETALING JAYA: PKR has pushed its party polls deadline to May 2014 from November 2013, extending the mandate of its leadership by up to six months. The PKR delegates unanimously agreed to the motion to put off the party polls proposed by ...
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Malaysias Vitriolic Election Shatters the Illusion of Democracy
election shows few signs of abating after the government charged three outspoken opposition figures with sedition, an antiquated and much-maligned law primarily used to quell dissent. The crackdown comes amid accusations of vote rigging during the May 5 ballot that saw the incumbent National Front coalition -- in power since independence from Britain in 1957 -- returned with Prime Minister Najib ...
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Malaysias May 1-25 palm oil exports down 5.2 pct - ITS
(Adds table) KUALA LUMPUR, May 25 (Reuters) - Exports of Malaysian palm oil products from May 1 to 25 fell 5.2 percent to 1,064,925 tonnes from 1,123,129 tonnes shipped during April 1 to 25, cargo surveyor Intertek Testing Services said on Saturday. Breakdown of ITS palm export figures for May 1-25 compared to a month ago (in tonnes): PALM PRODUCTS May 1-25 April ...
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Chinese premier criticizes EU move on trade measures
Chinese Premier Li Keqiang speaks during a joint news conference with Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari (not in picture) at President House in Islamabad May 22, ...
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Up close and personal with Datuk Richard Curtis
is not the Curtis who wrote the comedic scripts for the movies Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, or the Mr Bean series. This is the Curtis leading Sarawak's largest ...
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News Corp to take charge of up to $1.4 billion this quarter
said on Friday it will write down the value of its Australian and U.S. publishing assets by up to $1.4 billion (925.4 million pounds), as the company prepares to split its business between its newspaper and entertainment operations.The company said the goodwill impairment charge was primarily for its Australia newspapers though it gave no more details. It also said it expected reduced cash flows ...
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Malaysia a favourite of Muslim travellers
BERLIN: Malaysia has been named, along with Turkey and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as one of the preferred destinations for Muslim travellers, according to a survey. The survey, conducted by DinarStandard, the leading survey institute for Muslim travel market, was presented during the International Tourism Bourse (ITB) here, the world's largest travel and tourism show by organiser Messe ...
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DPM Turning BN into a single party must be evaluated in detail
said the proposal to turn Barisan Nasional into a single party is rational and needs to be studied in detail to ensure its continuous support from the people. He said the 13-party coalition should look at the existing Barisan structure to see if the time had come for the formation of a single party. "This means that each component party must self-evaluate and consider whether it is time to ...
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Chua Cops right to act against those inciting racial hatred
said MCA supported the police action against the people who incited racial hatred. "The Opposition has instilled such hatred before during and after the general election," Dr Chua said here yesterday. "National reconciliation requires cooperation from both sides of the political divide, not just the Prime Minister," he added. ...
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Syndicate linked to IC deal busted
KOTA KINABALU: A syndicate that cheats foreigners into paying RM80 as processing fee for Malaysian identity cards was busted in Sabah's interior area of Keningau. Police arrested four men and a woman, aged between 37 and 50, during a raid at a hotel room on Monday. Keningau Police Chief Deputy Supt Robert Salasip said initial investigations revealed that the syndicate used a copy of a ...
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All religions practise good teachings
has urged people to put the good teachings contained in all religions into practice. "By learning their respective religions, understanding them and practising good morals, we will all be able to live in peace and harmony," he added. Dhammaratana also called on all religious leaders to find ways to draw people back to religion. "We cannot use the old, traditional methods any ...
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Barisan mulls name change as part of its evolution
PETALING JAYA: Barisan Nasional is mulling changing its name as part of its evolution in responding to current needs, and among the names being considered is Parti 1Malaysia. According to The Star Online, the change will enable direct individual membership while retaining current parties in the coalition, which was formed in 1973. Barisan is the successor of the Alliance, a coalition of Umno, ...
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Painting of merry old couple covered up to prevent accident at Chew Jetty
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Politics of development pays dividend
has delivered and now market watchers are expecting Sarawak to be robustly rewarded. Collectively, Sabah and Sarawak delivered 47 seats out of the 133 seats that gave BN its simple majority. For the stock market, the large number of Sarawakian ministers being appointed is a strong sign of the political will to push through Sarawak’s infrastructure development, and thus ensure that mega ...
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Trio walk free after court turns down remand request
, PAS member Tamrin Ghafar and head of the pro-Opposition movement ABU Haris Ibrahim were ordered to be released by magistrate Norashikin Sahat who rejected the police's application of remand. According to a tweet by lawyer New Sin Yew, the grounds for the magistrate's decision on Tian Chua was that the reasons given were too general and did not refer to the details of the ...
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Ministry Marriage should not be way out for suspected rapists
PETALING JAYA: The Women, Family and Community Development Ministry has expressed concern that marriage would become an "excuse" to escape prosecution for cases of statutory rape. ...
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