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Chennai’s water crisis: Man-made problem
It not uncommon to come across newspaper headlines which highlight a water crisis in Chennai. This year however the intensity of the crisis appears worse than anything experienced in recent memory. The scale of the water crisis has now begun
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France’s former president Sarkozy to be charged for corruption
PARIS: Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy will face trial on charges of corruption and influence peddling, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. On Tuesday, the country’s highest court rejected Sarkozy final bid to have the case dropped, sending the conservative politician
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Sex video: PKR to issue show-cause letter to Haziq
PETALING JAYA: PKR will issue a show-cause letter to its Santubong youth chief Muhammad Haziq Abdul Aziz for allegedly tarnishing the party’s name by implicating deputy president Mohamed Azmin Ali in a sex scandal. PKR disciplinary board chairman Datuk Ahmad
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Anwar: Up to police to act on blackmailing author
PETALING JAYA: PKR president Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim said that he would leave it to the police to take appropriate action against author Yahaya Ismail who threatened to publish a book disparaging him, if the author was not paid RM400,000.
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Dr M: A racist, mediocre leader
I attended Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s address to the Cambridge Union recently. It was a disappointing and unpleasant experience. Before entering, I had thought of him as an enigma, a giant of history with the tremendous recent
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Malaysia’s sex scandals; The never-ending saga
Recently, everyone is talking about the sex scandal between Azmin and Haziq but it’s not the first time our politicians have been involved in them.
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Batek deaths: Measles is just the end result of neglect
The recent revelation by the Minister of Health that it was measles that killed the children in the Orang Asli Bateq tribe is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg with regards to the care of our indigenous people. The
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Starving polar bear wanders into Siberian city
SIBERIA: A starving polar bear strayed hundreds of kilometres away from its natural Arctic habitat and wandered, exhausted, into Russian industrial city of Norilsk, in northern Siberia. The female bear, visibly weak and seemingly ill, lay despondently on the ground
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Lynas: Yeo’s meeting with Australia delayed
Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change Minister Yeo Bee Yin postponed her visit to Australia to discuss rare earth miner Lynas Corporation’s storage of radioactive waste in Malaysia. A ministry spokesperson said the trip, scheduled for this week, has
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CEO claims trial to cheating
KOTA BHARU: A chief executive officer of a company was charged at the Magistrate’s Court here today with cheating a man using fake documents in 2016. The accused, Wan Muhd Zamri Wan Salleh, 46, pleaded not guilty after the charge
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