Registration for RM500 aid to start in December

Registration for RM500 aid to start in December


Registration for RM500 aid to start in December

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 12:24 AM PDT

The registration of households with a combined monthly income of RM3,000 for the RM500 aid through the Inland Revenue Board (IRB) is scheduled to start in December.

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Singapore to continue moderate reliance on foreign workers

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 12:23 AM PDT

Singapore will continue to moderate the republic's reliance on foreign workers and ensure they continue to complement its local workforce.

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Information Dept operates in Putrajaya beginning Nov 1

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 12:22 AM PDT

The Information Department will begin operations at the Ministry of Information, Communications and Culture Complex at Persiaran Perdana, Precinct 4, Putrajaya near here, beginning Nov 1.

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Ahmad Sarbaini's family wants royal commission set up

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 12:22 AM PDT

There is an urgent need for the government to set up a royal commission to investigate the death of Customs Department assistant director Ahmad Sarbaini Mohamad at the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) office here on April 6.

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VIDEO: Ancient Thai capital 'swamped'

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 06:06 PM PDT

Residents in Thailand's ancient capital of Ayutthaya are still struggling to cope with the impact of flooding, which has crippled a third of the country's provinces.


Japanese crew wins 3,000km Australian solar race

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 12:10 AM PDT

Japan's Tokai University won the 3,000-kilometre (1,860-mile) World Solar Challenge car race through Australia's desert Thursday in a tight contest marred by wildfires and an explosion.

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Queen takes in flower show amid curtsey flap

Posted: 20 Oct 2011 12:09 AM PDT

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II kicked off her Australia tour at a flower show Thursday where thousands turned out to see her amid a flap over Prime Minister Julia Gillard failing to curtsey.

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Important for civil service to get people's "buy-in" - Muhyiddin

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 11:45 PM PDT

Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin has reminded civil servants not to get carried away in self-indulgence in realising the target under the National Key Result Areas, saying it is also important for them to obtain the "buy-in" from the people for these initiatives.

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M'sia records RM454.9 bil worth of exports in Jan-Aug, Dewan Rakyat told

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 11:44 PM PDT

Malaysia recorded exports worth RM454.9 billion between January and August this year, Deputy Finance Minister Datuk Donald Lim Siang Chai told the Dewan Rakyat today.

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Temple medium: I'm commissioned to sell iPhone in netherworld

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 11:43 PM PDT

It was found that most participants had only little knowledge about Jobs. Some called him "the one producing Apple" and some remembered his name wrongly as "Steven Josh".

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No need for other religions' places of worship in public venues

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 11:27 PM PDT

The Kelantan government does not see the need yet to provide places of worship for people of other faiths in supermarkets and bus stations like the surau for Muslims, said State Culture, Tourism and Local Government Committee chairman Datuk Takiyuddin Hassan.

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I'll never run away

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 11:18 PM PDT

Because we are human beings with hot blood. It is not about morality but just basic human nature, a question of conscience.

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VIDEO: Amazon protesters reach La Paz

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 05:49 PM PDT

A protest by indigenous Amazonians has reached Bolivia's main city La Paz to a triumphant welcome.


Tintin in Peril? Boy hero back in bother in Belgium

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:17 PM PDT

"Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!" As Tintin prepares to take on the world in Steven Spielberg's blockbuster, the fearless boy reporter's adventures are hotting up at home.

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Referendum a must for China treaty: Taiwan leader

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:07 PM PDT

Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou Thursday moved to reassure voters over his proposals for a peace treaty with China, saying it would only be signed if it was first approved in a referendum.

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Virgin pilot blown from stairs by passing plane

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:06 PM PDT

A Virgin Australia pilot was recovering Thursday after being blown from the stairs leading up to his plane by the engine thrust of a passing Qantas 747 jumbo.

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Thai PM says floods in parts of Bangkok inevitable

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:05 PM PDT

Thailand's premier said Thursday that it was impossible to protect all of Bangkok from the country's worst floods in decades, describing the situation as a "national crisis".

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Greenpeace criticises Japan radiation screening

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 10:05 PM PDT

Greenpeace called on Tokyo to toughen radiation screening and food labelling rules on Thursday after it said low levels of radiation had been detected in seafood sold at Japanese stores.

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Bruni gives birth to baby girl, media reports

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 09:02 PM PDT

PARIS, Oct 20 — French first lady Carla Bruni gave birth to a baby girl yesterday, French media reported, her first child with husband President Nicolas Sarkozy and the first baby born to a French presidential couple in office. Europe 1 radio and BFM television said Bruni gave birth around 8pm after being admitted earlier in the day to the La ...



Somali, Kenyan forces eye rebel stronghold as hostage dies

Posted: 19 Oct 2011 08:42 PM PDT

MOGADISHU, Oct 20 — Kenyan and Somali forces were poised to close in on Islamist rebels in their southern Somali strongholds as Paris announced that a Frenchwoman, whose kidnapping spurred Kenya's cross-border incursion, had died. Kenya's military stormed across the border on Sunday to support Somali government troops in a risky attempt to secure ...



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