Malaysia News

Global travel budgets (and those of Malaysians) on the rise in 2014 but travellers are demanding more value out of it. MALAYSIANS are raring to travel even more this year! They are amongst the nationalities most likely to increase their travel budget this year according to a recent survey. On averag …

Published: Monday April 28, 2014 MYT 8:48:00 AMUpdated: Monday April 28, 2014 MYT 10:21:31 AM Photo Gallery: Day 1

LAST week I visited Sulu and Zamboanga City in southern Philippines, and guess who kept popping up during my trip? The Sultan of Sulu. Two and a half of them, in fact. On Wednesday, I was introduced to a man related to the late Jamalul Kiram III – the self-proclaimed Sultan of Sulu – at a fish marke …

LOS ANGELES, April 27, 2014 (AFP) – Oscar-winning heartthrob George Clooney, one of Hollywood’s most coveted bachelors, has got engaged to his British lawyer girlfriend Amal Alamuddin, People magazine reported Saturday. “George and Amal are trying to keep things very low-key but th …

Ernest Zacharevic working on his mural in Kuching. – Bernama KUCHING: Artist Ernest Zacharevic has completed his latest mural at India Street here this Sunday and is considering doing two more murals in Sarawak’s capital city. In his latest mural, Zacharevic introduced nine orang-utans t …

VATICAN CITY, April 27, 2014 (AFP) – Pope Francis on Sunday proclaimed as saints his influential predecessors John Paul II and John XXIII at an historic ceremony attended by hundreds of thousands of pilgrims in St Peter’s Square. “We declare and define as saints the blessed John XX …

Speculation is rife that Terengganu will have a new Mentri Besar by May amid claims that Datuk Seri Ahmad Said had promised to stay on for only a year after the general election. DATUK Seri Ahmad Said is quite a talkative man but the Terengganu Mentri Besar’s lips seem to be sealed with super glue i …

JINDO, South Korea, April 27, 2014 (AFP) – South Korea’s prime minister resigned Sunday over the sinking of a passenger ferry that left more than 300 people dead or missing, amid huge public anger over what is seen as a bungled response to the tragedy. Chung Hong-Won admitted he had not …

Published: Sunday April 27, 2014 MYT 9:21:00 AMUpdated: Sunday April 27, 2014 MYT 9:39:06 AM Photo Gallery: Day 1 Photo gallery of US President Barack Obama’s visit to Malaysia.

Many of us, particularly non-Muslim voters, never took seriously what PAS’ ultimate plan is. But now, we’re faced with the dreaded reality. IF there’s one thing that PAS is consistent about, it has to be its ambition to set up an Islamic state and to implement hudud. This is the basis of the Islamis …

The police officers who helped make the Chinese constable drive a success share their personal stories with Sunday Star. ACP Gan Choon Hong comes from a proud family of police officers. The 58-year-old former temporary teacher jumped at the chance to be a cop 38 years ago, thanks to a suggestion fro …

Published: Saturday April 26, 2014 MYT 5:22:00 PMUpdated: Saturday April 26, 2014 MYT 5:42:45 PM Photo gallery of US President Barack Obama visit to Malaysia

KUALA LUMPUR: President Barack Obama arrived at the RMAF base in Subang on Saturday for the much-awaited three-day visit. The Air Force One jet carrying the American leader touched down at the base at 4.50pm after a six-hour flight from South Korea.  Obama was greeted by Foreign Minister Datuk Seri …

UNITED STATES president Barack Obama and Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak have two things in common. Both were elected to lead their countries in the same year. Obama won the American presidential election on Jan 20, 2009, while Najib took office as Prime Minister less than three …

Seoul (AFP) – North Korea is a weak “pariah state” whose heavily militarised border with the South marks “freedom’s frontier”, US President Barack Obama told American troops in Seoul on Saturday. The meeting place of the two countries is a division between a ̶ …