Kedah BN Youth seeks MACC probe over campus contract

Kedah BN Youth seeks MACC probe over campus contract


Kedah BN Youth seeks MACC probe over campus contract

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:58 AM PST

Kedah Barisan Nasional (BN) Youth has lodged a report with the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) seeking a probe into alleged irregularities in the award of the contract to build the Insaniah University College (IUC) campus.

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Australian military rushes supplies to flood zone

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:06 AM PST

MACKAY, Monday 3 January 2011 (AFP) - The Australian military Monday raced to bring food and supplies to the flood-hit northern city of Rockhampton before it is cut off by rising waters, as the disaster claimed its third fatality.

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African leaders urge Gbagbo to go

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:03 AM PST

West African leaders will today travel to Ivory Coast, to once again persuade Laurent Gbagbo to step aside and let his rival Alassane Ouattra take over the presidency.


FACTBOX - Heavy rains hit Australia's coal, agricultural sectors

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:01 AM PST

Recovery "will take a significant amount of time," said Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard.



Australian floods submerge towns,coal exports hit

Posted: 03 Jan 2011 12:01 AM PST

GRACEMERE, Australia (Reuters) - Military aircraft ferried supplies to an Australian town slowly sinking beneath swollen rivers on Monday, as record flooding in the country's northeast severed roads and ports, curtailing coal exports and devastating farmland.



Cooking oil price remains the same, for now, says Lian Hoe

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:51 PM PST

The price of cooking oil will remain the same for now, Deputy Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Datuk Tan Lian Hoe said today.

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The constitutional provision on State Secretary appointment

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:40 PM PST

Section 52(1) of the Selangor State Constitution is definitive; it says specifically that the appointment of the State Secretary shall be made by the appropriate Service Commission from among members of the relevant public services.

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Former senior manager alleged to have accepted bribes

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:36 PM PST

A former senior manager of Sime Darby Engineering Sdn Bhd in Pasir Gudang today pleaded not guilty to two counts of corruption involving RM55,300 worth of items.

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Malaysia's external trade expected to be sustained at RM1 tril mark

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:35 PM PST

Malaysia's external trade is expected to be sustained at the RM1 trillion mark this year, driven by the recovery in the global trade, said Deputy Minister of International Trade and Industry, Datuk Mukhriz Tun Mahathir.

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Acid attack girl back at school

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:33 PM PST

Acid attack victim Nurul Dahyatul Fazlinda Mat Haizan, eight, has nothing to worry about at school when she has a classmate like Nurul Ain Rosyaddi.

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Selangor MB has audience with Sultan

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:32 PM PST

SHAH ALAM, Monday 3 January 2011 (Bernama) -- Selangor Menteri Besar Tan Sri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim is believed to have had an audience today with the Sultan of Selangor, Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah, at the Istana Mestika here over the appointment of the state secretary.

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Indonesia says inflation rises to 6.96% in 2010

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:25 PM PST

JAKARTA, Monday 3 January 2011 (AFP) - Indonesia's central bank faced fresh pressure to raise interest rates on Monday after data showed inflation for 2010 reached almost 7% due to rising food prices.

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Singapore Asia's fastest growing economy in 2010

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:23 PM PST

SINGAPORE, Monday 3 January 2011 (AFP) - Singapore's economy grew 12.5% in the fourth quarter of 2010, a record year in which the city state was Asia's strongest economic performer, government figures showed Monday.

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China boasts breakthrough in nuclear technology

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 11:26 PM PST

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in spent fuel reprocessing technology that could potentially solve China's uranium supply problem, state television reported on Monday.



Thousand blackbirds fall out of sky

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 07:46 PM PST

Wildlife officials are trying to determine what caused more than 1,000 birds to fall dead from the sky over a small town in the US state of Arkansas.


iPhone alarms hit by New Year glitch

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 10:44 AM PST

A glitch on Apple's iPhone has stopped its built-in alarm clocks going off, leaving many people oversleeping for the first few days of the New Year.


Plea for Iranian woman facing stoning

Posted: 01 Jan 2011 09:14 PM PST

The son of an Iranian woman convicted of adultery and helping her lover murder her husband asks the authorities to spare her life.


What 2011 holds

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 10:51 PM PST

I picked up a crystal ball and pronounced some spells on it, then concentrated and look deep into it. Then I saw what 2011 will be.

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Pakistan PM to meet opposition on political turmoil

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 09:49 PM PST

ISLAMABAD, Jan 3 — Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani is due to meet a leader of the main opposition party today in a bid to head off a possible vote of no confidence against him after a key partner quit the governing coalition. Gilani's government lost its parliamentary majority yesterday after the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) announced ...


Mohamad Sabu and nine others acquitted

Posted: 02 Jan 2011 10:11 PM PST

The Magistrate's Court here today discharged and acquitted PAS central committee member Mohamad Sabu and nine others accused of obstructing a police officer from carrying out his duties.

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