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Malaysia scores high in human development index – UNDP
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is scoring high in its Human Development Index (HDI) for 2018, with a score of 0.804 compared with 0.802 last year, putting the country in the Very High Human Development category, finishing at 61st place out of
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Suu Kyi to appear at ICJ as Myanmar faces genocide accusation
In a momentous move, Aung San Suu Kyi will appear at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague today for a highly anticipated genocide case against Myanmar. As she arrived at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on Sunday alongside Wouter Jurgens, the Dutch ambassador to Myanmar, she was greeted
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Asia for SME funding digitalisation
KUALA LUMPUR: Small Medium Enterprise Development Bank Malaysia Bhd (SME Bank), an agency under the Ministry of Entrepreneur Development, has signed two Memoranda of Understanding with Telekom Malaysia Bhd (TM) and Commerce. Asia to develop the National Small and Medium
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Uproar in Malaysia – LGBT groups at Women’s Day march
KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian minister has decried the presence of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) groups at a march celebrating International Women’s Day on Saturday, calling it “a misuse of democratic space.” The statement comes amid concerns over growing
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Umno, PAS announce official collaboration
KUALA LUMPUR: Umno and PAS have finally team-up, but not the way some hoped for and a few expected. Today, the two parties announced that there would be a collaboration between them. What was left unsaid was that a marriage
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