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New Miti minister vows to tighten ART provisions during ratification talks

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21 -- New Investment, Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani told Parliament this morning that he plans to tighten loose clauses in the Agreement of Reciprocal Tr... Read More


Corruption that refuses to go away - Mustafa K. Anuar

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- That corruption is the scourge of society is obvious enough, especially so when it adversely impacts nation-building and corrodes social values. Such transgression has become... Read More


MACC seizes RM15.8m across 55 accounts in corporate graft investigation

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21 -- The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has frozen 55 bank accounts belonging to individuals and companies as part of its probe into IJM Corporation Bhd. The move for... Read More


Back to the exam hall: A wake-up call for Malaysian education - Muhammad Ammirrul Atiqi Mohd Zainuri

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- The halls of the Putrajaya International Convention Centre (PICC) echoed with a definitive shift in the nation's academic trajectory as Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim... Read More


The grammar of belonging - David Yoong

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- One of the things I learnt early on as a student of linguistics is the concept of semantic markedness. Consider the phrase "male nurse". Because the role of nurse is stereoty... Read More


Meet the locally-assembled 2026 Proton e.MAS 7 SKD: Same EV, more kit, less cash

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21 -- Pro-Net has announced the availability of the 2026 Proton e.MAS 7. Locally assembled in Proton's EV plant at Tanjung Malim, this particular version offers additional features ... Read More


A promising reform, but the hard work starts now - Andrew Woon

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- Malaysia's decision to allow children to begin preschool at age five and give parents the option of enrolling them in Standard One at age six or seven marks a significant turn... Read More


Cancer Diaries: Where I find out my 'expensive' cancer is a bargain

Kuala Lampur, Jan. 21 -- Every so often someone reaches out to ask me questions about public healthcare, questions that I do my best to answer. A woman said her relative was facing charges of RM22,00... Read More


Set to be tabled early this year, will the Freedom of Information Bill really guarantee transparency?

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21 -- While Malaysia awaits the tabling of a federal Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, the states of Selangor and Penang remain the only two territories in the country where citizen... Read More


Stateless his whole life, 38-year-old Perak man wants to be Malaysian; says late mother born pre-Merdeka should have been citizen too

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan. 21 -- Perak-born Velmurugan, 38, has lived in Malaysia his whole life as a stateless person and just wants to be recognised as a Malaysian. Being stateless has caused him much emot... Read More