My friend told me that he was approached by a MoD personnel to help facilitate a purchase of Air-to-Air missiles from Russia for the MiG29s and SU30 bought by MoD previously. The MoD personnel claimed…

Kuala Lumpur, Dec 31 - Malaysian minister of Indian origin Samy Vellu is expected to lobby against the Hindu Action Rights Force (Hindraf), a group that claims to represent ethnic Indians in Malaysia,…

PUTRAJAYA, Dec 31 (Bernama) -- Come 2008, the Malaysian stock market is expected to experience a volatile phase following the fallout from the subprime mortgage crisis which has not been fully…

KUALA LUMPUR, MON: Syarikat Jaminan Kredit Perumahan Bhd (SJKP), a company under Minister of Finance Incorporated, has launched a scheme to offer housing loans to enable those without fixed income…

TUARAN (Bernama) - Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said yesterday that the country will become bankrupt if the government reduces oil prices, which were skyrocketing in the world…

KUALA LUMPUR. The Malaysian government has reversed a decision to ban a Christian newspaper using the word Allah to refer to God. The government had threatened to refuse to give the Weekly Herald a…

Kuala Lumpur, Dec 31 (ANI): Malaysian Tamils have urged the airport authority of Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) to make announcements in Tamil, as it would help the passengers coming from…

Up to five explosions rocked Thailand's troubled south early this morning, injuring dozens of people in a town on the Malaysian border, police in the region said.

Alfian, The Jakarta Post, JakartaMedia observers criticized Saturday the statement made by a Malaysian minister regarding press freedom in Indonesia, saying the media here was more democratic than in…

M. Taufiqurrahman, Dekalb, Illinois (The Jakarta Post) - Since 1998, street protests have been relatively commonplace in Malaysian politics, but the latest rally by the Indian minority…

(The Jakarta Post) - Jarkata: Media observers criticized Saturday the statement made by a Malaysian minister regarding press freedom in Indonesia, saying the media here was more democratic than in…

(The Straits Times) - A SINGAPOREAN artist said Monday he had begun a hunger strike to seek the release of Malaysian Hindu rights activists detained under a tough security law.

(Borneo Bulletin) - Brunei Darussalam and Singapore on June 27, celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Currency Interchangeability Agreement (CIA).

The lesson to be learned from all this is that Muslim governments need to address real economic problems with real economic and structural solutions rather than cut cards with the Devil and playing…

How did a nation that was so full of bubbly confidence as encapsulated in its “Malaysia boleh!” spirit only a few years ago descend so fast and so far, and with so few of the elite class…

Oleh Khairul Faizi Ahmad Kamil AHAD 30 Dis: Apabila keputusan Peperiksaan Menengah Rendah (PMR) yang diumumkan baru-baru ini menunjukkan peningkatan terhadap keputusan mata pelajaran Sains dan…

Oleh Faizah Izzani ZakariaKUALA LUMPUR 30 Dis. – Timbalan Menteri Sumber Manusia, Datuk Abdul Rahman Bakar meminta pengambilan pekerja asing dihentikan buat sementara waktu sehingga satu dasar…

'This has nothing to do with religion'Remove the people who are causing the problem, and put in the ones who are qualified to deal with it. Remove the unqualified, because they are…

(The Sun): Gerakan has yet to decide on the fate of its Youth wing vice-chairman S. Paranjothy as the party's disciplinary committee is still waiting for an official directive from the central…

(The Sun): Works Minister Datuk Seri S. Samy Vellu, who will be leading a 100-strong delegation to attend the fifth Pravasi Bharatiya Divas (PBD), the annual meeting of the Indian diaspora, next…

(The Star) - KUALA TERENGGANU: It was a tense situation at the Sessions Court here when a judge denied bail for two men charged with unlawful assembly and voluntarily causing hurt to a policeman…

Umno vice-president Datuk Seri Mohd Ali Rustam has urged members to discuss party matters behind closed doors to safeguard the party’s dignity.

(The Star) - The assassination of former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto shortly after she held a political rally showed why Malaysia was against street demonstrations, said Foreign Minister…

(The Star) - The opposition’s promises to reduce oil prices if it were to form a government will only bankrupt the country, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak said.

2007 had been "annus horribilis" – make 2008 a year of hope and change for Malaysians that the great pledges of Abdullah when he became Prime Minister for an united, just, accountable…

MS Benazir Bhutto's last words were 'Long live Bhutto', the chief political adviser with the former Pakistani prime minister as she was killed told the British newspaper The Sunday…

TUARAN 30 Dis. - Kedudukan ekonomi negara boleh terjejas teruk selain program pembangunan dan penyediaan kemudahan rakyat terhalang sekiranya kerajaan bertindak menurunkan harga minyak, kata Datuk…

'NOT everyone is so naive and dumb,' writes Adnam, a Pakistani blogger who decorates his page with a portrait of the country's slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

THE son of slain Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was chosen on Sunday to take the mantle of her party and immediately vowed to keep up what he called her struggle for democracy.

MALAYSIA authorities are to allow a Catholic paper to continue to print, after earlier threatening to revoke its licence in a row over the word 'Allah', a church leader said on Sunday.