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Assam on alert ahead of citizenship registrar release
GUWAHATI: Tens of thousands of paramilitary personnel and police were deployed in India’s border state of Assam on Friday, the eve of the publication of a citizenship register that could leave millions of people stateless, many of them Muslims. For
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Ebola death toll in east Congo outbreak climbs above 2,000
GOMA: The death toll from Democratic Republic of Congo’s year-long Ebola outbreak has climbed above 2,000, government data showed on Friday, as responders battle to overcome community mistrust and widespread security problems. The government team overseeing the response said the
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Rich Malaysian, Poor Malaysian – The Merdeka gap
In recent weeks, we have been occupied with the question of whether the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights, Philip Alston’s claim is correct or false. Alston concluded that Malaysia’s absolute poverty rate cannot be 0.4 percent
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Under Mahathir, Malaysia makes bold move to embrace China
Malaysia-China relations appeared to have cooled considerably in the first few months of Pakatan Harapan (PH) rule, when Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad suspended three projects backed by Chinese companies in one of his first decisions in the office. It was
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Beijing rejected Hong Kong’s appeasement plans for protesters
HONG KONG: Earlier this summer, Carrie Lam, the chief executive of Hong Kong, submitted a report to Beijing that assessed protesters’ five key demands and found that withdrawing a contentious extradition bill could help defuse the mounting political crisis in
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Time to make the first move, Kak Wan
It is clear that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is playing political games over the exact moment when Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is to take over as Prime Minister. He now says there is no vacancy in the Cabinet for a
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Malaysia, a developed nation? Farfetched
PUCHONG: Former law minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim has dismissed the notion that Malaysia will be a developed nation. “Don’t want to sound too critical on Merdeka eve; but the idea that Malaysia will be a developed nation is farfetched. “There
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Fire leaves seven families homeless
LABUAN: A man suffered burns on his hands as he attempted in vain to put out a fire early today at his house that left seven families homeless. The fire, which started at about 2 am, destroyed the double-storey wooden
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Bersatu, Amanah still incapable of replacing Umno, PAS
PUTRAJAYA: Both Bersatu and Amanah are still incapable in replacing Umno and PAS to champion Malay rights and Islam, said political analyst Awang Azman Awang Pawi. The deputy director of Malay Studies Academy in Universiti Malaya said both the Pakatan
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Maybank: The latest party in forfeiture suit against Najib
KUALA LUMPUR: Ex-Goldman banker Roger Ng and a company controlled by Low Taek Jho’s father had outstanding loans with Maybank, which has appeared as a third party in the government’s asset forfeiture suit against former prime minister Datuk Seri Najib
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