Issue of SS appointment not resolved yet: Khalid

Issue of SS appointment not resolved yet: Khalid


Issue of SS appointment not resolved yet: Khalid

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 01:12 AM PST

Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim said the Selangor government maintained its stand that the issue on the appointment of Datuk Mohd Khusrin Munawi as the State Secretary had yet to be finalised and must be resolved.

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AmResearch reaffirms buy call on Proton

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:57 AM PST

AmResearch has reaffirmed its "Buy" call on Proton Holdings Bhd with an unchanged fair value of RM6.10 per share.

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AIG's Taiwan unit fined for punishing union member

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:56 AM PST

TAIPEI, Thursday 6 January 2011 (AFP) - The Taiwan unit of US insurance giant AIG has been fined for punishing a union official after he spoke out on the planned sale of the company, authorities said Thursday.

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Selangor sultan regrets his speeches were manipulated

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:56 AM PST

The Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah said today he deeply regretted that his speeches have been manipulated by irresponsible groups to the extent that many of his subjects in Selangor have been confused.

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N.Korea arranges low-key birthday for leader's heir

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:55 AM PST

SEOUL, Thursday 6 January 2011 (AFP) - North Korea has arranged low-profile events to celebrate this weekend's birthday of its future leader, a South Korean official said Thursday.

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Advice to those wishing to embrace Islam

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:47 AM PST

Solve all the family and marital problems first before the conversion. Religious conversion is not the way to avoid responsibility. This is the advice of Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Nazri Aziz to those who wish to embrace Islam.

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China 'welcomes' talks between North, S. Korea

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:39 AM PST

BEIJING, Thursday 6 January 2011 (AFP) - China said Thursday it would "support and welcome" any dialogue between North and South Korea, following Pyongyang's offer of "unconditional" negotiations with Seoul.

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Indonesia rights body denounces torture in Papua

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:38 AM PST

JAKARTA, Thursday 6 January 2011 (AFP) - Indonesia's top human rights body on Thursday urged President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to take action against "serious" rights violations by security forces in eastern Papua region.

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My heartfelt regret

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:07 AM PST

In response to news reports on a purported instruction from the Prime Minister's Office that religious artefacts be removed at a Christmas function attended by him, his special officer Datuk Hardev Kaur has issued a clarification on the matter.

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Chemical plant fire in Holland

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 10:23 PM PST

Officials in the Netherlands have been attending a fire at chemical plant in the southern city of Dordrecht.


Reporter threatened at gunpoint

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 02:47 PM PST

The BBC's Andrew Harding was threatened at gun point by militia loyal Mr Gbagbo as he travelled to interview Mr Outtara.


ANALYSIS - U.S. leans on Pakistan as Zardari visits

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:05 AM PST

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari visits the United States next week as Washington seeks to put pressure on Islamabad to pursue militants without pushing an already strained relationship to breaking point.



Seoul rejects N.Korea's talks offer as "propaganda"

Posted: 06 Jan 2011 12:05 AM PST

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea has dismissed a North Korean call for unconditional talks to ease tensions, saying on Thursday the offer was "propaganda" it does not take seriously.



The family of linguistic geniuses

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 11:31 PM PST

Even if 51- year-old Indian fireman, Ben is proficient in Malay, English and Tamil, his linguistic skills are still considered "inferior" when compared to his 49-year-old wife, Rebecca, who can handle not only these three languages but Hokkien as well.

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Japan politician's 'peeping' guard arrested

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 11:20 PM PST

TOKYO, Thursday 6 January 2011 (AFP) - The police bodyguard of a senior Japanese politician has been arrested after trying to peep on a woman washing in her bathroom, police said Thursday.

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Russia sends icebreaker to rescue fishermen

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 11:19 PM PST

MOSCOW, Thursday 6 January 2011 (AFP) - Russia on Thursday dispatched a third icebreaker through howling storms to the rescue of hundreds of fishermen trapped in icy seas off Russia's Far East coast since December 30.

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Thailand customs seize elephant tusks

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 11:18 PM PST

BANGKOK, Thursday 6 January 2011 (AFP) - Thai authorities said Thursday they had seized 69 elephant tusks and four smaller pieces of ivory, worth more than 300,000 dollars, smuggled from Mozambique.

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S.Korea steps up foot-and-mouth quarantine

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 11:17 PM PST

SEOUL, Thursday 6 January 2011 (AFP) - South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak called Thursday for tighter quarantine measures to combat the rapid spread of the country's worst outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease.

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Israel says Turkey like Iran before revolution

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 11:33 PM PST

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has likened Turkey to Iran on the eve of its 1979 Islamic revolution, saying Ankara's policies were to blame for the breakdown of ties with the Jewish state.



Nazri: political leaders thrust crutches upon Malays who are already self-reliant

Posted: 05 Jan 2011 11:11 PM PST

The Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Sri Nazri said that it is not that the Malays lack confidence, but it is rather that some political leaders have yet to wake up and are still continuing to remind the Malays not to be too capable!

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