#MH17 LIVE Reports, 5.30pm | Travel plan change proves fatal for Michelin star chef South China Morning Post today reports how a celebrated Hong Kong-born chef and his Malaysian wife made a change in their usual travel route that proved fatal. Fiftysomething Fan Shun-po and Jenny Fan, who run a rest …
Read More »The Star scoops four awards at prestigious NPC event
KUALA LUMPUR: The Star won big at the prestigious National Press Club Awards Night 2014, bagging four awards. Two of the winners, M. Bavani and Hariati Azizan, were joint winners for the same category – NPC Kenanga Best Reporter (English Medium). They received a return economy class ticket to Dubai …
Read More »The Star People's Food Awards to pick best street food
PETALING JAYA: All eyes, and taste buds, are set to focus on Klang Valley street food with the launch of The Star People’s Food Awards. The country’s largest daily joins major newspapers around the world in presenting awards to reward and celebrate the best in the local food industry. The monthly aw …
Read More »The Star and Bloomberg TV to reach wider audience via various platforms
PETALING JAYA: The Star Media Group and Bloomberg TV Malaysia have joined hands to provide business news on platforms covering print, digital, radio and television to reach the widest possible audience. “It is exciting that a group of like-minded friends are able to work on something to create news …
Read More »Watch: 'House' star Omar Epps talks zombies, Brad Pitt and 'Resurrection'
New TV series ‘Resurrection’ is a matter of life and death, the actor tells The Star in an exclusive interview. Actor Omar Epps doesn’t dismiss the possibility of life after death. Epps was in town recently to promote his latest work, Resurrection, an eight-episode series about the dead …
Read More »Littlespeck downs pen in The Star
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 …
Read More »Artists from all eras pay tribute to the last 'Bujang Lapok' star, Aziz Sattar
Malaysia’s movie industry was hit today by the passing of entertainer Aziz Sattar, as actors and directors from different eras paid their respects to the eternal Bujang Lapok star. The death of actor and comedian Datuk Abdul Aziz Sattar, 89, hit the entertainment industry hard early Tuesday mo …
Read More »Star Media Group launches shopping website
PETALING JAYA: Star Shopping, a new shopping website by Star Media Group, has been launched with a total of 10,000 products from 50 brands. Star Shopping is a partnership between Star Publications (M) Berhad and ShopStylers Sdn Bhd, marking another milestone for the media group in diversifying its d …
Read More »The Star wins silver at Putra Brand Awards
PETALING JAYA: The Star has bagged the silver award in the Media category at the Putra Brand Awards, the only print medium to win in that category. Other winners under the category last night were Astro, which clinched gold, and bronze winners Hitz FM, Malaysiakini and ntv7. AirAsia was crowned as t …
Read More »The Star wins four prizes at WAN-IFRA Asian Media Awards
HONG KONG: The Star won four prizes at the 13th Asian Media Awards presented by the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) here. Reporter Isabelle Lai received the gold award in the Best in Editorial Content (Newspaper Breaking News Article) category for her report in The Sta …
Read More »The Star bags two MPI-Petronas journalism awards
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 …
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