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We live in a multi-racial, multi-religious and multi-cultural Malaysia, where any law, whether hudud or civil, will affect all of us. SERIOUSLY, I am fed up of being told that I should not comment on the proposed hudud laws by PAS and the party’s fans because I am not a Muslim. The argument is that …

Whether as our late second Prime Minister’s wife or our current Prime Minister’s mother, this Johorean beauty’s most important portfolio was her family. Tun Rahah Mohammad Noah’s youngest son Nazir gives her top marks this Mother’s Day. Second Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussein’s widow was only …

Mother’s Day is a day of celebration of motherhood, observed by many on the second Sunday of each May. This is a Day of appreciation of sacrifices and influences mothers made in the society. It often astonishes me to learn that Mother’s Day celebration only began in the USA less than one hundred yea …

PETALING JAYA: Family life was a bliss for working mother Sarah Chan until her husband lost money in his business. “Our life fell apart because he was basically in a bad shape, and I had nothing to fall back on even though I also have a full time job. We had to use up all our savings,” said the 39-y …

PETALING JAYA: A conservationist known for his efforts to help save the orang utan has won the Whitley Award, the first Malaysian to do so. Dr Melvin Gumal was honoured with the Whitley Award for Con­servation in Ape Habitats at a special ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society in Britain on Thu …

SEPANG: AirAsia started charging its passengers a RM3 fee with each ticket booked since yesterday – a levy it calls a “KLIA2 fee”. Malaysia Airports Holdings Bhd (MAHB) was quick to distance itself from the move, issuing a statement to deny that it had anything to do with it. “There is no such charg …

KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 (Bernama) — The price control scheme will be implemented one week before Gawai Day is celebrated on May 31 in Sabah and Sarawak. Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Datuk Seri Hasan Malek said today 12 items are placed under the price control scheme to mar …

KOTA KINABALU: Anxiety is growing among the family of missing three-year-old Low Meng Yew (pic) (also known as Liu Mingyou) who was kidnapped during a carjacking early Friday. There has been no word or calls since he went missing over 24-hours earlier as a special task force continue to investigate …

From Noor Soraya Mohd Jamal NAY PYI TAW (Myanmar), May 9 (Bernama) — Malaysia-Myanmar bilateral trade and investment are consistently increasing, with growing interest from the Malaysian private sector keen to come in to explore opportunities in this country. Malaysian Ambassador to Myanmar Da …

A generation of Malaysians and readers around the world have grown up with Seah Chiang Nee’s columns on Singapore. Illness, however, has forced him to ease up and he has decided to stop being a columnist in The Star. In this farewell interview with Soo Ewe Jin, Seah gives his readers an insight into …

GERIK, May 9 (Bernama) — Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today opened the East-West Highway Banding Memory Gallery located opposite the Belum Rainforest Resort here in memory of soldiers serving at the frontier. Accompanied by Perak Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Zambry Abdul Kadir, Emkay Group chairm …

KOTA KINABALU: Almost two hours after posting her goodbye message on Facebook, jilted housekeeper Hasrina Chee (pic) fell to her death at the Centre Point shopping mall here. The 21-year-old is believed to have fallen from the mall’s sixth floor car park at about 11.30pm following her Facebook post …

NILAI, May 9 (Bernama) — The ranking of local universities at the international level is not the main consideration in accelerating the country’s higher education towards excellence, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today. He said this was because most of the criteria …

KOTA KINABALU: A three-year-old boy is missing after the pick-up car he was sleeping in was driven off. Low Yee Sheng, 31, left his son in the vehicle with the engine running next to a petrol station to use the toilet at 5.50am yesterday. He found the vehicle later but the boy, Low Min You, was nowh …

KUALA LUMPUR, May 9 (Bernama) — Umrah pilgrims have been urged to wear surgical masks to reduce the risk of contracting the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Virus-Corona Virus (MERS-CoV). Director-general of health Datuk Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the masks were able to prevent inhalation of …