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Agriculture minister calls for speedy resolution of NFCorp
KOTA BHARU: The Agriculture and Agro-based Industry Ministry has called for a speedy resolution to the National Feedlot Corporation (NFCorp) issue as it involves public interest. Its minister Datuk Salahuddin Ayub said a company had expressed interest in acquiring NFCorp
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In a village, Muslims talk of leaving as divide with Hindus widens
NAYABANS: Muslims in Nayabans, an unremarkable village in northern India, say they remember a time when their children played with Hindu youths, and people from either faith chatted when they frequented each other’s shops and went to festivals together. Such
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K-pop star Psy to release new album in July
SEOUL: K-pop star Psy will return to the forefront of the K-pop scene with a new album in early July, Yonhap news agency said on Tuesday. “Psy will return with his ninth full-length album in early July … and premiere
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Land swap deal: MACC likely to call Zahid, Hishammuddin to give statements
PUCHONG: The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) would likely call upon former Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and former Defence Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein to give statements regarding land swap issues. MACC deputy chief commissioner (Operations)
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DAP: Najib is a disgrace to his father’s legacy
PUCHONG: DAP stalwart Lim Kit Siang today accused former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak of being a disgrace to his father’s legacy. “Najib accuses me of being obsessed with him. He cannot be more wrong. I would not
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Yapeim DG suspended over anti-PH video
PUCHONG: The Islamic Economic Development Foundation (Yapeim) has suspended its director-general Abibullah Samsudin pending an investigation into an alleged wrongdoing by the latter. Yapeim chairperson Mohd Daud Bakar said an investigation committee has been set up to probe Abibullah for
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Breaking: Indonesia’s Jokowi wins second term as president
JAKARTA: Incumbent President Joko Widodo (Jokowi) was announced the winner of the Indonesian Presidential Election (Pilpres) 2019 to continue leading the world’s third largest democratic country for the next five years. General Election Commission (KPU) announced the result of the
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Slavery, gang rape of North Korean women in Chinese cybersex dens
Tens of thousands of North Korean women and girls – some as young as nine – are being trafficked into sexual slavery in China are raped as they try to flee poverty and oppression in their homeland, experts on the
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US-China trade war hits markets
WASHINGTON/BEIJING: Worries that the US and China were digging in for a longer, costlier trade war weighed on financial markets on Monday as Beijing accused Washington of harbouring ‘extravagant expectations’ for a deal to end their dispute. Investors added up
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Probe torture in Indian Kashmir, United Nations told
Tens of thousands of people in Indian Kashmir have been subjected to torture in the past three decades, according to a report released Monday by two prominent human rights groups which called for a UN investigation. The report said at
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