Mat Sabu urged to apologise

Mat Sabu urged to apologise


Mat Sabu urged to apologise

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:33 AM PDT

Puteri Umno chief Datuk Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin said PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu should apologise for insinuating that the perpetrators in the Bukit Kepong offensive were the real heroes.

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Community garden

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:29 AM PDT

A woman reads the paper seated on a bench among allotments at the legendary Tempelhof Airport, site of the Berlin Airlift and now home to one of Europe's biggest and most unusual community gardens in Berlin, Germany.

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France unblocks Libya cash, ‘unaware’ of oil deal

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 01:17 AM PDT

PARIS, Sept 1 — France has approval to release €1.5 billion (RM6.45 billion) of Libyan assets to help the country's interim ruling council rebuild the country, French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe said today. The minister also said he was unaware of a reported deal between France and Libya's interim rulers that would grant the former access to a ...



Tony Tan sworn in as Singapore president

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:52 AM PDT

Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam will be sworn in as Singapore's seventh president on Thursday evening at a ceremony to be held at the Istana.

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Karpal wants Mat Sabu to retract statement on Bukit Kepong

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:52 AM PDT

DAP chairman Karpal Singh wants his fellow Pakatan leader Mohamad Sabu to retract a recent statement he allegedly made regarding the Bukit Kepong incident in the 1950s.

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Smooth traffic despite more cars on expressway

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:51 AM PDT

The number of vehicles on the North-South Expressway (PLUS) is expected to increase today as motorists began to make their way back to the city.

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Syrian forces raid Hama, official resigns in protest

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:44 AM PDT

AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian forces raided houses in Hama for the second day on Thursday, residents said, hours after the city's attorney general declared on YouTube he had resigned in protest against the suppression of street demonstrations.



Steriliser blamed for mysterious S. Korean deaths

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:29 AM PDT

A sterilising agent for home humidifiers probably caused the mysterious deaths of four pregnant women, an official with a South Korean health agency said Thursday.

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Book fair and lifelong learning

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:28 AM PDT

Malaysians read only two pages of books per year in the past but we have taken a huge leap forward as the latest statistics show that we read eight to 12 copies of books every year.

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US man survives pruning shears in eye socket

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:27 AM PDT

An 86-year-old American has made a stunning recovery after a gardening accident left him with a pair of pruning shears impaled through an eye socket deep into his skull.

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Asia manufacturing growth stalls

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:25 AM PDT

Manufacturing activity in China showed a small uptick in August but slumped in other big Asian economies, surveys said Thursday, as rising prices continue to frustrate regional governments.

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Confusion

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:24 AM PDT

They disputed over all issues without toleration. As a result, they complicated things and brought confusion to the society.

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Optimism is a habit

Posted: 01 Sep 2011 12:19 AM PDT

Success doesn't come by chance and so does optimism. Optimism is a habit that needs cultivation in order to make it a sustainable habit.

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Cheney book renews post-9/11 US policy fights

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:16 PM PDT

WASHINGTON, Sept 1 — Former Vice President Dick Cheney's new memoir revives the fierce battles over US national security policies after the September 11 attacks as it rips open old wounds among aides to President George W. Bush. Cheney describes his upbringing on the Wyoming prairie where he hunted jackrabbits and learned to fish before turning ...



Beijing, Manila seek South China Sea code of conduct

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 09:40 PM PDT

MANILA, Sept 1 — The Philippines and China have agreed on the need for a binding code of conduct in the South China Sea as the two countries seek to defuse tensions over territorial disputes that have flared this year, President Benigno Aquino said. Aquino, speaking to reporters late yesterday after meeting his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, said ...



Israel: Palestine upgrade at UN would be mistake

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 08:34 PM PDT

JERUSALEM, Sept 1 — Upgrading the Palestinians' UN status would be a "strategic mistake by the world", a senior Israeli official said yesterday, cautioning that Israel had prepared a slew of punitive and diplomatic responses. Outlining government strategy ahead of next month's showdown at the United Nations, the official said long-stalled peace ...



WikiLeaks says passkeys to unredacted cables leaked

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:35 PM PDT

The anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks on Thursday accused a journalist with the Guardian of leaking the passwords to a trove of unredacted US diplomatic cables, charges denied by the British newspaper.

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Katia a hurricane; another storm likely in Gulf

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:08 PM PDT

MIAMI (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Katia strengthened into a hurricane over the Atlantic on Wednesday, while another mass of thunderstorms that could become a named storm this week triggered evacuations of some oil workers from the Gulf of Mexico.



EXCLUSIVE - Obama moves to sell Northrop drones to SKorea-sources

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 11:08 PM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has begun consulting the U.S. Congress on plans to sell remotely piloted Global Hawk surveillance planes to South Korea, which came close to all-out war with North Korea last year, two people familiar with the matter said.



VIDEO: Libya's influence on Sarkozy's ratings

Posted: 31 Aug 2011 10:28 PM PDT

President Sarkozy led international action against Col Gaddafi's regime, but has the Libyan conflict affected his standing in France?


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