Authorities here have ordered the closure of the private home for the aged and handicapped in Bukit Cina following the rescue of a mentally-handicapped 19-year-old who was found chained and malnourished on Wednesday.

A total of 430 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras here and in Putrajaya will be linked to keep an eye out for street crimes.

A lorry driver was sentenced to death by the Kangar High Court for trafficking in 53,074.7gm of ganja six years ago.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has filed an application to review the Federal Court?s decision which found that his dismissal as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister over 11 years ago was valid.

The Chief registrar of Syariah Appelate/High court clarified that the Sultan of Kelantan Sultan Ismail Petra ibni Sultan Yahya Petra did not file a divorce suit against his second wife Elia Suhana Ahmad but that it was done on his behalf.

Kindergarten teacher M. Indira Gandhi, embroiled in a bitter custody battle with her Muslim convert husband, was given custody of her 22-month-old toddler by the High Court here.

A mild earthquake with a magnitude of 2.6 on the Richter scale occurred at 11.10pm Thursday, causing mild tremors that was felt within the Tasik Kenyir area.

Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan was re-appointed Chief Secretary to the Government on a contract basis for a year from June 24, 2010 to June 23, 2011, the Prime Minister's Office announced Thursday.

Malaysia was declared the second best destination in Asia by 'Go Asia', a tourism marketing network specialising in Asia, which gave good marks to the overall facilities available for tourism in Malaysia.

First stage of the New Economic Model will be launched March 30. More announcements will be made during unveiling of 10th Malaysia Plan, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Muslims in Kelantan who want to marry underaged persons can ask for permission or exception from the 'kadi' giving reasonable gounds, said Kelantan Syariah Court Chief Judge Datuk Daud Mohamad.

The ?Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia? (SABM) group will taking its series of roadshows across to Sabah and Sarawak this weekend, the first outside Peninsular Malaysia, in its continuing efforts to get the people to make their vote count and put an end to communal politics.

Mohd Fazli Azri Jamil, 28, was charged at the Kuala Kubu Baru Magistrates Court for the murder of three-year-old Syafiah Humaira Sahari on Feb 2.

A three-year-old boy died in a fire that destroyed seven houses in the east coast town Lahad Datu.

Police on are now fanning out into villages and residential areas in and around Muar to hunt down the man who attacked three six-year-old children in a pre-school with a hammer.

Police will not bow to public pressure and release the suspect detained in connection with the murder of toddler K. Hareswarra despite 16 people lodging police reports claiming his innocence.

In the 2009 SPM results announced Thursday, 7,987 students obtained all As in the subjects they took, said Education director-general Datuk Dr Ahamad Sipon.

Tengku Temenggong of Kelantan Tengku Mohd Fakhry was awarded RM6mil in damages against estranged wife Manohara Odelia Pinot and her mother Daisy Fajarina in his defamation suit.

Children inherit about 30 changed genes from each parent, fewer than had been thought, according to a first detailed look at the blueprint for human life in a family.

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MUAR: The happy chatter of children turned into screams of horror when an unidentified man armed with a hammer barged into a kindergarten here and bludgeoned three six-year-olds.

MUAR: Police have launched a massive manhunt for the man who brutally bludgeoned and injured three pre-schoolers at Tadika Sinario in Lorong Haji Ali here.

PUTRAJAYA: The Prime Minister?s call to raise the salaries and expedite the promotions of top performers in the public sector has been well-received by the Higher Education Ministry, with the salary scheme for professors to be revised.

PETALING JAYA: Parents of serving civil servants will, for the first time, be entitled to free ward admissions at government hospitals.

KUALA TERENGGANU: Serious engineering flaws, shoddy workmanship, inferior materials and lack of expertise in the key project management team were found to be the main contributing factors behind the roof collapse at Stadium Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin in Gong Badak.

MENTAKAB: Two businessmen have put up a banner at the busy Jalan Mok Hee Kiang here with words of encouragement in Chinese for MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat.

KUALA LUMPUR: Guessing games are swirling fast and furious in MCA.

KUCHING: The Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (Sadia) has helped resolve about 100 land disputes between oil palm plantation developers and native customary right (NCR) landowners.

MIRI: Watersheds, rivers and forests degraded by human activities in the state are to be ?re-greened? and ?nursed? back to their natural state via a serious, integrated and comprehensive effort.

THE winners in the upcoming MCA elections have a heavy responsibility ahead ? uniting the party to face the next general election, slated to be held two years from now.

KUALA LUMPUR: Fewer Malaysian men and women want to tie the knot now compared with 10 years ago.

SINGAPORE: A young French student is the latest to claim that film-maker Jack Neo hit on her ? when she was only 16 more than five years ago.

MALACCA: Curiosity over a locked room at a private home for the aged and handicapped led to the rescue of a mentally-handicapped teenager who was found chained and malnourished.

JOHOR BARU: Marine police have stepped up operations against human smuggling, arresting more than 135 foreigners and 23 syndicate members last year.

SHAH ALAM: The inquest into the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock was once again enveloped in uncertainty when a government pathologist testified that the deceased had not been strangled or choked prior to his fall.

SHAH ALAM: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commissions (MACC) head of prosecution Datuk Abdul Razak Musa wants the two pathologists who conducted the first post-mortem on political aide Teoh Beng Hock?s remains to be recalled to the stand.

KOTA BARU: Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat will lead special prayers in every district following problems resulting from the dry season ? including padi fields facing water shortage.

KOTA TINGGI: The water level at a popular waterfall here has dropped drastically due to the severe dry spell that has hit the state in recent months.

KEMAMAN: The current hot spell and lower rainfall in catchment areas have sparked a water crisis in Kemaman where some 200,000 consumers have been warned to conserve water as the situation could worsen.

JOHOR BARU: Two Indian nationals who arrived here two days ago to start work as salesmen died along with two others in a fire that authorities believe could be arson.

ALOR SETAR: PAS Ayer Hitam assemblyman Abdul Ghani Ahmad and PKR Sidam assemblyman Tan Joon Long @ Tan Chow Kang were sworn in as new Kedah executive council members for a one-year term.

A news report with the photo of girl browsing in a sex accessories store published in a daily upsets manager who claims she was a bogus student.

Attention on the on-going sodomy trial will shift to the Court of Appeal next week when it hears Anwar’s application against the High Court judge’s decision.

Authorities have been 'studying' the book 'Malaysian Maverick: Mahathir in Turbulent Times' since November.

The taxpayers shell out RM400,000 for training 120 community mediators tasked with the mission to iron out conflicts and disputes.

The Ipoh High Court says it has the jurisdiction to hear family matters involving custody of children although one party has converted to Islam.

A prominent Umno-linked lawyer said Kelantan cannot claim oil royalty because the Emergency (Essential Powers) Ordinance 1969 is still in force.

Federal government’s tyrannical hold over local governments must go for them to meet the people’s expectations said the Kampung Tunku state assemblyman.

BREAKING NEWS Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah has called for a review of the federal and state relations, in order to keep up with recent developments.

The finance minister II today dismissed speculations that the implementation of the controversial GST tax would be called off.

A lot of grouses within the ruling coalition that have yet to be satisfactorily resolved may be rebound negatively at the next polls.

BREAKING NEWS No amount of amendments to the Internal Security Act is going to make the legislation any less draconian, said GMI.

The first stage of the New Economic Model (NEM) will be announced on March 30, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak said today.

The attack on a kindergarten in Muar by a man armed with a hammer was the focus of attention in most of the dailies.

UPDATED 2.33PM Anwar is being probed for sedition, criminal defamation and illegal assembly involving a string of ceramah in Penang.

It joined forces with an indigenous group from Sabah and Sarawak to lobby legislators on issues still lingering from the British colonial period.

The crowds get bigger for Pakatan’s ‘take-it-to-the-people’ sessions with the one last night in an Anwar bastion the largest to date.

The absence of witnesses at the 'illegal' gathering 10 years ago forces the magistrate to release all accused.

Do elected reps actually need APs to serve the people better? More importantly, do they deserve it?

Return the power to the people taken from them more than 40 years ago.

PM's son Norashman Razak showed his talent by singing a Mandarin song at the ACCIM Chinese New Year grand dinner last night.

Kelantan prince Tengku Muhammad Fakhry was awarded RM6 million in damages against estranged wife Manohara.

free 'Gerakan has only one way to show us that it rejects racism: leave BN and do not subscribe to Umno ideals.'

free 'There was a time when Umno provided a moderate centre. But that was some time ago. The centre has since moved.'

The Kulim MP dropped another bombshell after declaring himself an Independent.

A coalition of 49 NGOs has expressed shock and dismay at the PM's pronouncement that local government elections were unnecessary.

Three foreigners suspected of being involved in international terrorism have been deported back to their countries of origin, the Kuala Lumpur High Court was informed today.

COMMENT Is it ‘ketuanan Melayu' in disguise? The philosophy behind its formation certainly indicates this.

It claims the easy availability of these items indirectly encourage free sex among teenagers.

It offers bandwidth at network access (port) speeds of 10 megabit per second.

He has filed a judicial review to challenge Monday's apex court decision which rejected his appeal for unlawful dismissal as DPM 11 years ago.

A large number of the 4,200 assembly-line workers are being paid ‘poverty-level wages', claims the umbrella body for unions.

The ex-deputy president's first two dinners saw the attendance of the majority of delegates as well as high-ranking party members.

Pakatan has delivered a self-appraisal of its performance to date in four states. Now others have their say.

The theme was public safety at an event last night to mark International Women's Day event.

The US favours Malaysia's involvement in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) compared to a free trade agreement (FTA), said its Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

The Penang CM said he was prepared to meet with Najib to explain the need to hold local government elections in the state.

The government will abolish ward charges for public service officers and pensioners in government hospitals effective April 1.

Palace officials refuse to accept a petition from the mother of custodial death victim, on ground she did not make a formal appointment.

KUALA lUMPUR: Two per cent, or 7987 candidates, have scored straight As; while 214 candidates obtained A+ for all the subjects they took.

ALOR SETAR: The Kedah Barisan Nasional Youth has handed over a memorandum to Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak to protest against the state government's management of water supply.

BAGHDAD: US soldiers opened fire on a civilian vehicle in Baghdad killing an Iraqi couple for reasons that are still under investigation, an interior ministry official said on Thursday.

HONG KONG: Chinese inflation data showing a sharp jump in consumer prices sent Asian stocks lower Thursday as dealers grew anxious that Beijing would introduce further monetary tightening measures.

MOSCOW: Russia criticised as unacceptable Thursday a decision by the Israeli government to build new settlement homes in annexed Arab east Jerusalem.

TOKYO: Daihatsu Motor Co., a subsidiary of embattled Toyota, said Thursday it was recalling almost 275,000 vehicles due to possible defects, the latest in a raft of problems hitting Japanese carmakers.

KANGAR: A lorry driver was sentenced to death by the High Court here today for trafficking in 53,074.7gm of ganja six years ago.

KUALA LUMPUR: Indonesian model Manohara Odelia Pinot and her mother were ordered by the High Court here today to pay RM6 million in damages to her husband, Kelantan prince Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Sultan Ismail Petra, in a RM105 million defamation suit filed by the prince against them.

SYDNEY: Two Australian teenagers have been charged over a vicious attack on a disabled Canadian tourist who was knocked out of his wheelchair and battered with a metal bar, police said on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES: A restaurant in Santa Monica, California faces criminal charges after being accused of selling sushi made from whale meat, which is strictly banned in the United States.

SIBU: The F3000 Powerboat Rajang Regatta which offers the title of Borneo's fastest F3000 powerboat racer, has attracted at least 10 prominent racers to the race scheduled at the Rajang River here on Sunday.

BERLIN: Malaysia was declared the second best destination in Asia by "Go Asia", a tourism marketing network specialising in Asia, which gave good marks to the overall facilities available for tourism in Malaysia.

PUTRAJAYA: Gladys Tan Yee Kim from Sekolah Menengah Kebangsaan (SMK) Green Road, Kuching, Sarawak is the best student and Sekolah Menengah Sains Seremban, Negeri Sembilan as the best school for SPM 2009.

PUTRAJAYA: Improvements will be made in five more areas by Pemudah (Pasukan Petugas Khas Pemudah cara Perniagaan), the country's special task force dedicated to facilitate all aspects of doing business in Malaysia, by this April.

KUALA KUBU BHARU: A taxi driver was charged in the Magistrate's Court here today with the murder of three-year-old Syafiah Humairah Sahari.

BANGKOK: Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban on Thursday said that the deployment of 30,000 unarmed military, 10,000 police and 10,000 civilian volunteers to maintain order in the capital had already begun as soon as the Internal Security Act (ISA) took effect.

BEIJING: Chinese security forces have stepped up a crackdown in Tibet’s capital Lhasa, two years after protests marking a failed 1959 uprising erupted in deadly violence, the police and reports said Thursday.

GENEVA: Some 15,000 customers may have been affected by the theft of data from a Swiss branch of banking giant HSBC three years ago, Alexandre Zeller, chief executive of HSBC Private Bank, said on Thursday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Standard Chartered Bank has opened the Women in Business Resource Centre, an online tool designed to help women entrepreneurs start and grow their own business.

BEIJING: Thirteen people were killed and six injured when a bus plunged off a bridge in southwest China, state media said Thursday.

TOKYO: Japan’s newest airport opened outside Tokyo Thursday aiming to lure budget airlines, but there was deep scepticism about its profitability as it has only one scheduled daily flight so far.

PUTRAJAYA: Opposition leader Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim contends that the High Court judge had erred in ruling that there was no real danger of bias if he continued to hear Anwar's sodomy case.

BEIJING: China on Thursday joined international condemnation of Israel’s plan to build 1,600 new homes in east Jerusalem and called on the Jewish state to put an end to the settlement project.

Authorities here have ordered the closure of the private home for the aged and handicapped in Bukit Cina following the rescue of a mentally-handicapped 19-year-old who was found chained and malnourished on Wednesday.

A total of 430 closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras here and in Putrajaya will be linked to keep an eye out for street crimes.

A lorry driver was sentenced to death by the Kangar High Court for trafficking in 53,074.7gm of ganja six years ago.

Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim has filed an application to review the Federal Court?s decision which found that his dismissal as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister over 11 years ago was valid.

The Chief registrar of Syariah Appelate/High court clarified that the Sultan of Kelantan Sultan Ismail Petra ibni Sultan Yahya Petra did not file a divorce suit against his second wife Elia Suhana Ahmad but that it was done on his behalf.

Kindergarten teacher M. Indira Gandhi, embroiled in a bitter custody battle with her Muslim convert husband, was given custody of her 22-month-old toddler by the High Court here.

A mild earthquake with a magnitude of 2.6 on the Richter scale occurred at 11.10pm Thursday, causing mild tremors that was felt within the Tasik Kenyir area.

Tan Sri Mohd Sidek Hassan was re-appointed Chief Secretary to the Government on a contract basis for a year from June 24, 2010 to June 23, 2011, the Prime Minister's Office announced Thursday.

Malaysia was declared the second best destination in Asia by 'Go Asia', a tourism marketing network specialising in Asia, which gave good marks to the overall facilities available for tourism in Malaysia.

First stage of the New Economic Model will be launched March 30. More announcements will be made during unveiling of 10th Malaysia Plan, said Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak.

Muslims in Kelantan who want to marry underaged persons can ask for permission or exception from the 'kadi' giving reasonable gounds, said Kelantan Syariah Court Chief Judge Datuk Daud Mohamad.

The ?Saya Anak Bangsa Malaysia? (SABM) group will taking its series of roadshows across to Sabah and Sarawak this weekend, the first outside Peninsular Malaysia, in its continuing efforts to get the people to make their vote count and put an end to communal politics.

Mohd Fazli Azri Jamil, 28, was charged at the Kuala Kubu Baru Magistrates Court for the murder of three-year-old Syafiah Humaira Sahari on Feb 2.

A three-year-old boy died in a fire that destroyed seven houses in the east coast town Lahad Datu.

Police on are now fanning out into villages and residential areas in and around Muar to hunt down the man who attacked three six-year-old children in a pre-school with a hammer.

Police will not bow to public pressure and release the suspect detained in connection with the murder of toddler K. Hareswarra despite 16 people lodging police reports claiming his innocence.

In the 2009 SPM results announced Thursday, 7,987 students obtained all As in the subjects they took, said Education director-general Datuk Dr Ahamad Sipon.

Tengku Temenggong of Kelantan Tengku Mohd Fakhry was awarded RM6mil in damages against estranged wife Manohara Odelia Pinot and her mother Daisy Fajarina in his defamation suit.

Children inherit about 30 changed genes from each parent, fewer than had been thought, according to a first detailed look at the blueprint for human life in a family.

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MUAR: The happy chatter of children turned into screams of horror when an unidentified man armed with a hammer barged into a kindergarten here and bludgeoned three six-year-olds.

MUAR: Police have launched a massive manhunt for the man who brutally bludgeoned and injured three pre-schoolers at Tadika Sinario in Lorong Haji Ali here.

PUTRAJAYA: The Prime Minister?s call to raise the salaries and expedite the promotions of top performers in the public sector has been well-received by the Higher Education Ministry, with the salary scheme for professors to be revised.

PETALING JAYA: Parents of serving civil servants will, for the first time, be entitled to free ward admissions at government hospitals.

KUALA TERENGGANU: Serious engineering flaws, shoddy workmanship, inferior materials and lack of expertise in the key project management team were found to be the main contributing factors behind the roof collapse at Stadium Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin in Gong Badak.

MENTAKAB: Two businessmen have put up a banner at the busy Jalan Mok Hee Kiang here with words of encouragement in Chinese for MCA president Datuk Seri Ong Tee Keat.

KUALA LUMPUR: Guessing games are swirling fast and furious in MCA.

KUCHING: The Sarawak Dayak Iban Association (Sadia) has helped resolve about 100 land disputes between oil palm plantation developers and native customary right (NCR) landowners.

MIRI: Watersheds, rivers and forests degraded by human activities in the state are to be ?re-greened? and ?nursed? back to their natural state via a serious, integrated and comprehensive effort.

THE winners in the upcoming MCA elections have a heavy responsibility ahead ? uniting the party to face the next general election, slated to be held two years from now.

KUALA LUMPUR: Fewer Malaysian men and women want to tie the knot now compared with 10 years ago.

SINGAPORE: A young French student is the latest to claim that film-maker Jack Neo hit on her ? when she was only 16 more than five years ago.

MALACCA: Curiosity over a locked room at a private home for the aged and handicapped led to the rescue of a mentally-handicapped teenager who was found chained and malnourished.

JOHOR BARU: Marine police have stepped up operations against human smuggling, arresting more than 135 foreigners and 23 syndicate members last year.

SHAH ALAM: The inquest into the death of political aide Teoh Beng Hock was once again enveloped in uncertainty when a government pathologist testified that the deceased had not been strangled or choked prior to his fall.

SHAH ALAM: Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commissions (MACC) head of prosecution Datuk Abdul Razak Musa wants the two pathologists who conducted the first post-mortem on political aide Teoh Beng Hock?s remains to be recalled to the stand.

KOTA BARU: Kelantan Mentri Besar Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat will lead special prayers in every district following problems resulting from the dry season ? including padi fields facing water shortage.

KOTA TINGGI: The water level at a popular waterfall here has dropped drastically due to the severe dry spell that has hit the state in recent months.

KEMAMAN: The current hot spell and lower rainfall in catchment areas have sparked a water crisis in Kemaman where some 200,000 consumers have been warned to conserve water as the situation could worsen.

JOHOR BARU: Two Indian nationals who arrived here two days ago to start work as salesmen died along with two others in a fire that authorities believe could be arson.

ALOR SETAR: PAS Ayer Hitam assemblyman Abdul Ghani Ahmad and PKR Sidam assemblyman Tan Joon Long @ Tan Chow Kang were sworn in as new Kedah executive council members for a one-year term.