KATHMANDU (Reuters) – An avalanche swept down a slope of Mount Everest on Friday killing 12 Nepali mountaineering guides at the beginning of the main climbing season, a Tourism Ministry official said. The avalanche, the deadliest in eight years, hit the most popular route to the mountain’ …

JOHOR BAHARU, April 18 (Bernama) — The construction of the ‘Frienship Bridge’ connecting Singapore and Johor will accelerate investment flow from the republic into the state, thus fostering closer ties of both countries. Leaders of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were of the …

KUALA LUMPUR: The Star bagged two prizes at the Malaysian Press Institute MPI-Petronas Malaysian Journalism Awards 2013. Assistant news editor Yip Yoke Teng clinched the best public service reporting award with her article Conditions going downhill. “The article highlighted the rape of Bukit E …

KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 (Bernama) — Three non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have lodged police reports against the organiser of the Anti-Goods and Services Tax (GST) protest planned for May in the capital. Its spokesman, Amir Amsaa Alla Pitchay said action should be taken against the organi …

FUKUSHIMA: Designer Datuk Jimmy Choo has unveiled a one-off range of shoes in Japan Friday, made using materials and techniques native to the disaster-hit Fukushima area, in a bid to boost the profile of artisans there. Choo was inspired to come up with the creations after visiting workshops in the …

From Nik Nurfaqih Nik Wil PERTH, April 18 (Bernama) — The Bluefin-21 deployed in the underwater search for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean is considered the best autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) for such an operation. Charitha Pattiaratchi, professor …

The death of Karpal Singh is a sad, sad thing. But what’s sadder is the dearth of humanity – that there are those who can celebrate the death of a fine man, or that they can incite others to hate just because they share the same views. IT’S mid-April, the time of the year when many in the world cele …

PUTRAJAYA, April 18 (Bernama) — The Kajang Hospital has received a donation of six new haemodialysis machines to enable it to enhance the quality of service rendered to kidney patients, said Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr S. Subramaniam. He said the donation of the machines was arranged by the …

CHELSEA L.Y. NG shares her memories of lawyer and politician Karpal Singh whom she regarded as a teacher and friend. I MET him on my first day of work as a court reporter at the old and dila­pidated Jalan Duta courthouse in 1994. I did not know who he was. I only knew that he was defending a man cha …

KUALA LUMPUR, April 18 (Bernama) — Selangor Police on Friday dismissed as a rumour news disseminated recently by SMS and over Facebook of a violent racial fight in Klang. Selangor Police chief Datuk Mohd Shukri Dahlan said the news was spread with malicious intent and could spark chaos in the …

KUALA LUMPUR: Michael Cornelius was a man who did not speak much, but his unwavering attention to Karpal Singh spoke volumes about how much he cared for his boss. Court reporters first saw him several years ago as he carefully pushed the wheelchair and gently attended to the late lawyer. Michael was …

From Nik Nurfaqih Nik Wil PERTH, April 18 (Bernama) — No concrete evidence has been found as yet of a missing Malaysian Airlines (MAS) flight following four underwater search missions by an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) codenamed Bluefin-21 in the southern Indian Ocean since Monday. The …

PETALING JAYA: Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak described former DAP chairman and Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh as an implacable leader and a committed advocate in law. The Prime Minister said that with a career spanning five decades, Karpal’s abilities made him a formidable opponent. “In politics, he was …

Karpal Singh’s wife Gurmit Kaur had always been the rock in his life. Theirs was a love story that began when they first met when he was 16 and she was just eight. Below are excerpts from an interview with Gurmit by Chin Mui Yoon which was published in The Star on Sept 10, 2006, two years after he w …

KUALA LUMPUR, April 17 (Bernama) — Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) editor-in-chief, Datuk Zulkefli Salleh and Bernama TV chief executive officer, Datuk Ibrahim Yahaya were today made honorary commissioners of the Scouts Association of Malaysia. The conferment was made and letters of a …