I REFER to the letter “Ensure every clinic is well run” (Monday Star, May 5) and “Doctor problems still need to be sorted out” (Sunday Star, May 4) and press statement by…

By Michael Chick “...(NST)The development of more matriculation centers, sports schools and arts schools may have to be placed on the back-burner under the mid-term review of the Ninth Malaysia…

Some people have been subsisting on less than 50 ringgit a month. Folks in Abaco Estate in Selangor (supposed to be the richest state in Malaysia) have no running water and no toilet facilities, hell…

(Bloomberg) -- Malayan Banking Bhd., Malaysia's biggest bank, agreed to pay as much as US$933 million for 20 percent of Pakistan's MCB Bank Ltd., its third overseas acquisition this year, to…

(Manila Standard Today) - THE separatist Moro Islamic Liberation Front has “sold” Sabah to Malaysia in exchange for Kuala Lumpur’s support in the guerrilla’s peace talks with…

(AFP) — Malaysian Catholics on Monday won the right to mount a legal battle against a government ban on the use of the word "Allah" as a translation for "God" in their main…

An unconfirmed report has it that Raja Petra Kamarudin, a leader of the Malaysian blogger community, social activist cum political commentator, and the personality behind the now famous…

Whatever it may be, one thing is very clear in my mind. This is God’s will and if I am to suffer a fate of long detention then this is what God has willed for me. And I will submit to…

(NST) - The development of more matriculation centres, sports schools and arts schools may have to be placed on the backburner under the mid-term review of the Ninth Malaysia Plan (9MP).

PRESS STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE PRIVATE SECRETARY TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE SULTAN OF PERAK WITH THE CONSENT OF HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS RAJA MUDA PERAK DARUL RIDZUAN IN CONNECTION WITH THE DIRECTIVE OF THE…

Please join me in this forum to offer condolences and to send this urgent message to the relevant authorities concerning a matter of national interest. This is an urgent matter to us as we leave home…

The Government has to delay projects which are considered unimportant in order to enable allocations to be used to ensure ample food supply in the country, said Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi is puzzled over the plan by the Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) to hold a demonstration in front of Parliament building on Wednesday on the…

(The Sunday Times) - The Malaysian tycoon Ananda Krishnan has banked a £120m profit in five years from rescuing Excel, the giant exhibition venue in London’s Docklands.

Raja Petra Kamarudin’s posting ‘Let’s send the Altantuya murderers to hell’ landed him in the police station yesterday. As can be gleaned from the title of his post, he…

People who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat the same mistakes.

In Malaysia, we have so many laws stifling freedom of speech sometimes I wonder if it’s possible to think.

Written by Kazi Mahmood, WORLD FUTURESAs a matter of fact, Malaysia may even benefit economically from the lifting of all press bans since the cheap operating and production costs may bring…

(NST) - Greater press freedom will nurture a more open, stable and mature democratic knowledge-based society in the long run.

(NST) - More than 200 Malay non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have agreed to form a council to further Malay interests against what they view as challenges to Kedaulatan Melayu or Malay…

(Bernama) ALOR STAR, May 4 -- There is enough rice stock in Kedah unlike previously claimed in media reports, according to the Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry.

AMID reports of global shortages and spiralling rice prices, Penang's hypermarkets are suffering from rapidly declining stocks.

(The Star) BATU PAHAT: Gua Musang MP Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah is going on a nationwide roadshow to garner support from Umno’s 3.4 million members to contest the party president’s post.

(The Malaysian Insider) MALACCA, May 5 ─ The Malays don't need to rave and rant as though they have lost their rights and power as these are guaranteed in the Federal Constitution which…

(The Malaysian Insider) KUALA LUMPUR, May 4 — What do MCA president Ong Ka Ting, DAP’s Lim Kit Siang, MIC’s Samy Vellu and Malaysian Consultative Council of Buddhism, Christianity,…

By Alan Ting, Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, May 4 -- MCA, the second largest Barisan Nasional (BN) component party which has all along been known as a Chinese-based party since its formation, needs to…

(Bernama) JOHOR BAHARU, May 4 -- The resolution passed at the Malay Solidarity Congress, which concluded here Sunday, was handed over to the Sultan of Johor, Sultan Iskandar, at Istana Bukit Serene.…

(Bernama) PENANG, May 4 -- The Penang government regards the action of the Pertubuhan Bunga Tanjong (PBT) office-bearers to dissolve the association and to donate its funds to Bakti (Association of…

(The Star) PENANG: The 48-hour deadline has passed and former Pertubuhan Bunga Tanjung (PBT) members are saying Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng and his chief of staff Jeff Ooi have no courage to debate…

(The Star) PENANG: Perak Sultan Azlan Shah has no jurisdiction over the transfer of Datuk Jamry Sury from the Perak Religious Department, Bukit Gelugor MP Karpal Singh said.