ALOR SETAR, June 6 (Bernama) — The Ministry of Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Ministry wants suppliers to increase stocks by 10 per cent for cooking oil and flour in 1kg packs in conjunction with the upcoming fasting month and Aidilfitri festive season. Its deputy minister Datuk …

SCENTS were an important part of Josh Lee’s life from the beginning, as his family operated a business supplying baking ingredients and scents. The different flavour extracts ended up having a major influence on the young Lee’s olfactory senses. “My father would also douse me in different fragrances …

KUALA LUMPUR: IJM Land Bhd has unveiled its latest property offering, Pantai Sentral Park, a mixed development project that will sit on 23.5ha of prime land in Bukit Kerinchi. It will have a gross development value (GDV) of RM2.5bil. Chief executive officer and managing director Datuk Soam Heng Choo …

By Nur Syuhada Shamsudin PUTRAJAYA (Bernama) — Malaysians may well remember the first animation created in the country, Hikayat Sang Kancil dan Buaya (the tale of the mousedeer and crocodile), that appeared on television in 1983. The animation produced by Filem Negara Malaysia (Finas) is based …

LOS ANGELES: A lone gunman killed one person and injured three others Thursday on a college campus in the northwestern US city of Seattle, where the mayor denounced America’s “epidemic of gun violence.” The latest bloody rampage to shake the United States came just two weeks after …

NEW YORK, June 6 (Bernama) — Identifying Malaysia’s food-processing industry as inherent with strong export potential, the New York office is aggressively marketing Malaysia’s processed foods to boost exports to the United States. Outlining his strategy to boost Malaysia’s pr …

PETALING JAYA: An employment agent, who allegedly dumped a maid’s baby recently, has told police that he separated the infant from one of the maids for fear of her spreading her Hepatitis B to the boy. A spokesman for the Shah Alam police headquarters said the man, in his 40s, who allegedly kept a b …

KUANTAN: The identity of the body found in Pulau Tioman has yet to be confirmed and police are awaiting DNA test results to conclusively identify the deceased man. Pahang police chief Senior Deputy Comm Datuk Sharifuddin Ab Ghani said the cause of death was also undetermined after a post-mortem was …

KUCHING, June 5 (Bernama) — Sarawak Chief Minister Tan Sri Adenan Satem on Thursday called for the sustainable, efficient and safe production of food, saying the world is facing a tough challenge to produce enough food to feed the projected nine billion global population by the year 2050. In h …

KOTA KINABALU: Sabah now has the world’s longest zip line – the bigger-scale version of the flying fox that enables users to traverse from the top to the bottom of a cable attached to a moving pulley – that will give the thrill of literally sailing from the air from one island to another at the Tunk …

KUALA LUMPUR, June 5 (Bernama) — Bank Negara Malaysia and the Malaysia Competition Commission (MyCC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on Thursday to formalise the intent of the bank and the commission to collaborate and cooperate in areas of common regulatory objectives. This is to f …

JOHOR BAHRU, June 5 (Bernama) — The Work Ministry is allocating RM1.037 billion this year for maintenance work of federal roads, stretching 17,458km nationwide. Its minister, Datuk Fadillah Yusof said the allocation included RM409 million for routine works, while RM628 million was for periodic …

PUTRAJAYA, June 5 (Bernama) — Accredited centre programmes that had been accorded five-star status under the Skills Development Department rose to 44 per cent last year compared to 31 per cent in 2011. Human Resources deputy minister Datuk Seri Ismail Abd Mutalib said the improvement showed th …

World Cup 2014 is days away. And what better way to get into the mood than to talk about some of the memorable goals scored throughout the years. I started my love affair with the most beautiful sport from the 1998 edition which was held in France. That was the first time that I heard and became ama …

PORT KLANG, June 5 (Bernama) — The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) detained 12 Indonesian seamen during an ‘Ops Redback’ operation that began on June 2 in the waters off Sungai Besar and Pulau Ketam. District Maritime enforcement chief, Captain Mohd Aliyas Hamdan said …