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Ministry: BMF reduced prices of goods? Rubbish!
KUALA LUMPUR: The Domestic Trade and Consumer Affairs Ministry has rubbished claims that the Buy Muslim First (BMF) campaign had reduced the prices of goods. Its secretary-general Datuk Muez Abd Aziz said such claims were unfounded because the prices of
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Three charged for possession of pygmy elephant tusks
TAWAU: Three men who are serving a jail term were today charged with possessing or conspiring to possess two protected Borneo Pygmy elephant tusks at the Tawau Sessions Court. The three men, Paranchoi Nordin, 59, Abdullah Simin, 68, and Martin
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Australia braces for heavy winds, lightning amid bushfire threat
Australia braced for strong winds today that could whip up bushfires in two states over the weekend and add to a toll of more than 270 homes destroyed and 2.5 million acres (1 million hectares) of land ravaged during the
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Najib accuses DAP of racist banner, gets Mandarin translation wrong
PUCHONG: Former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak today accused DAP of playing the religious card by claiming that the Umno-PAS tie-up, or Muafakat Nasional, was equivalent to Talibanism. In a Facebook post, Najib posted a picture of a
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Waytha: Consultative Council for People’s Harmony launched to ensure Malaysian unity
PUTRAJAYA: The Consultative Council for People’s Harmony (MPKR) was launched yesterday to replace the functions and responsibilities of the National Unity Consultative Council (NUCC). Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department P. Waytha Moorthy (pix) said MPKR would be a credible
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Terengganu to ensure entertainment and cultural programmes are shariah-compliant
KUALA TERENGGANU: The Terengganu state government will publish guidelines on entertainment, culture and tourism in January next year. State Tourism, Culture and Information Technology Committee chairman Ariffin Deraman said all relevant processes had been completed and a briefing session with
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Pantai Kundur residents build wave breaker to face high tide phenomenon
KOTA BHARU: Residents living near Kampung Pantai Kundur beach here have begun preparing for a possible high tide phenomenon expected to occur this monsoon season. A Bernama check today found that residents have begun constructing the wave breaker in their backyards to
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Two minors charged for murdering tahfiz student
TEMERLOH: Two teenage boys were charged in the Magistrate’s Court here today with the murder of seven-year-old Mohammad Aimin Nurul Amin at a tahfiz centre here on Thursday. The two minors, both aged 13, nodded to indicate that they understood
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Two men plead not guilty to cruelly injuring dogs
KUALA LUMPUR: Two men were produced in the Sessions Court here to face separate charges of cruelly injuring a dog each in January and last week. Personal driver Amir Abd Salim Meor Lope, 51 and lorry driver S. Mathialakan, 55,
Read MoreViva Biotech Partnership Summit Successfully Launched in Shanghai
SHANGHAI, Nov. 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — 2019 Viva Biotech Partnership Summit (the “Summit”) was successfully launched on 8 November 2019 in Pudong, Shanghai, themed “Innovation Partnership Growth”. Founders from over 30 global innovative and biopharmaceutical companies incubated/ invested by Viva
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