Four burglars nabbed after brief chase

KUALA LUMPUR: Four men have been arrested for attempting to break into a house in Taman Bahagia, Cheras and causing harm to the policemen who trailed after their getaway vehicle. In the Monday incident, a police spokesman said that their patrolling unit spotted the suspicious looking group in the re …

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Heavy downpour causes massive traffic jams in city

PETALING JAYA: Heavy rain coupled with after work traffic is causing massive traffic jams on most roads leading out of the city centre on Monday. According to LLM traffic and KL Traffic update tweets, several roads including Sprint highway from section 16 onwards and Bulatan Dato Onn heading towards …

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People come from afar to say goodbye

GEORGE TOWN: Technician R. Rajamony was the first person in the line when the doors were opened at Dewan Sri Pinang at 8.45am. “It’s my final chance to see him and I do not want to miss it,” said Rajamony, who had taken the midnight bus from Klang Valley with two friends so that they could attend Ka …

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Mourners line streets and escort cortege to crematorium

GEORGE TOWN: Thousands of people converged at the Dewan Sri Pinang in Light Street here to pay their last respects to former DAP national chairman Karpal Singh who died on Thursday. Mourners also lined the streets to catch a glimpse of Karpal’s cortege leaving the building to the Batu Gantong cremat …

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Battle for No. 2 post hots up

The temperature is rising in the contest for the PKR deputy president post which is the most intense and aggressive in the history of the party. REPORTERS rushed to the PKR headquarters on Wednesday when they heard that Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim was having a press conference. They thought he would an …

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A matter of principle

No one could stop Karpal Singh from speaking up on what he believed in. He did not care if he was taking on the prime minister or even a sultan. He had taken on all of them. SOME time in the middle of last year, I received a phone call from Karpal Singh. He offered to appear as a witness in support …

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Karpal Singh’s final journey, thousands bid farewell

GEORGE TOWN: Thousands of people lined the streets of Penang to send off the hearse carrying Karpal Singh on his last journey.  The casket, bearing the body of the “Tiger of Jelutong”, was draped with a carpet with an image of a Tiger before it was carried out from the Dewan Sri Pinang on Sunday. Sh …

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28 onboard rushed to hospital after accident

KUANTAN: An express bus that was on its way to Kuala Lumpur flipped over on the East Coast Expressway, leaving scores of passengers injured. Temerloh OCPD Asst Comm Abdul Aziz Salleh said the driver was believed to have lost control of the vehicle, causing it to hit the road divider on the right bef …

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Karpal Singh: Photo Gallery

Published: Sunday April 20, 2014 MYT 9:30:00 AMUpdated: Sunday April 20, 2014 MYT 9:49:23 AM The Star Online pays tribute to prominent Malaysian politician Karpal Singh with a gallery of pictures of him. Photo Gallery 1

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Karpal, my hometown hero

The maverick lawyer took on the role of Big Brother to local journalists, protecting us from powerful local figures who tried to intimidate us. I FIRST heard about Karpal Singh when I was still in school in Penang. It was around the time Star Wars hit the cinemas in the late 1970s. Karpal Singh had …

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